Production Powerful Capabilities

Fundamental Drawing Tools

Create precise 2D entities such as lines, parallel

lines, arc, circles, rectangles, elliptical curves,

polygons, splines, and reference entities like

centerlines and hatch patterns. IRONCAD

DRAFT supports powerful input options to

quickly specify size and option during creation,

such as centerlines. Other utilities such as

Block association, Command Editor, Format

Painter, Properties Window, and the Text Editor

are all intelligent functions that support quick

and efficient methods to complete complex

engineering tasks.

Common Editing Tools

Edit standard entities using commands such as

move, copy, mirror, rotate, offset, pattern, trim/

extend, and fillet/chamfer to quickly modify

geometry for the design intent.

Dynamic Input Creation

Dynamic input displays tooltips for values near

the cursor that allow direct input for the

geometry being created.

This allows the ability to quickly input various

aspects of curves during the creation in the

design environment that reduces time spent

in the command line input and editing.

IRONCAD DRAFT’s In-Place MTEXT Editor will

help you focus on your design and make your

work experience more efficient with new and

improved functions for your convenience, such

as, a text formatting toolbar, a dialog box for

formatting paragraphs, and a display options

menu. Thus, you can create and edit text

objects freely as in other professional word

processing software.

Easily find and replace text located in drawings

in IRONCAD DRAFT to update drawings or to

modify legacy drawings. Using this capability

can dramatically save time editing multiple

text elements in a drawing.

Create tables and tables with defined

attributes that can be inserted and used in any

design environment. Attributes allow users to

set defined attributes that can be filled in once

inserted into drawings to create standard data

tables.

Parametric Standard Parts Provided Library

Included in IRONCAD DRAFT application

is the standard part design library that

contains hundreds of standard parts that are

parametrically driven. Users can simply drag

& drop the desired part into the environment

and specify the parameters to automatically

create and layout the parts saving countless

hours of design time.

Focused Utilities

IRONCAD DRAFT incorporates many standard

mechanical design components such as gears

and fasteners to streamline normal design

tasks. These components automatically

generate the feature geometry based on user

specified inputs which reduces the number

of traditional editing commands. Quickly

develop door and windows styles, along with structural beams or any other standard items you like.

Define multiple objects as grouped objects

to create blocks (symbols). With these you

can standardize drawing components and

efficiently reuse them in other drawings.

Attributes can be attached to blocks to create

additional data such as inventory numbers,

pricing, and detailed descriptions.

IRONCAD DRAFT supports a full range of

dimension types including quick dimension,

two-point, baseline, continuous, 3-point angle,

continuous angle, half-dimension, large arc,

ray, pyramid, and continuous curvature. These

types allow the ability to place dimensions on

any design to fully detail the design aspects. In

addition, driving dimensions can be applied to

modify 2D layouts by dimension values.

Raster Image

Insert raster images in drawings to better

show off your designs, or to trace over old

paper drawings.

Various kinds of images can be attached,

including BMP, TIF, GIF, JPG, or PNG formats.

Once attached, the images can be varied in

their brightness and contrast. In addition,

drawings can be exported to a BMP for use in

desktop publishing and Web sites.

Hatches and Fills

Hatch areas to define specific meanings such

as material type. You can use solid fills (colour)

or predefined fill/hatch patterns. IRONCAD

DRAFT supports .pat pattern files from

mainstream CAD programs.

OLE

Insert linked or embedded objects into the

current drawing to take full advantage of

information from other applications. You

can insert movies, spreadsheets, formatted

documents, and more.

Real-time Pan and Zoom

Simply use the mouse to dynamically change

the magnification (zoom) of the drawing, and

to reposition the view (pan) of the drawing

area.

Quick Calculator and MS Paint Access

Quickly launch a standard calculator from

the IRONCAD DRAFT interface to access

standard, scientific, programmer, or statistical

mathematical calculations. MS Paint can be

accessed to create or edit images that can

be imported into the design environment

when needed.

Batch Conversion Utilities

Quickly convert DWG/DWF and legacy EXB

files into the latest IRONCAD DRAFT format

using the Batch Conversion Utility. This

provides a convenient way to update data in

a common format to use within the design

team.

Flexible and Streamlined User Interface

IRONCAD DRAFT supports the industry standard

Windows 2007 Fluent / Ribbon user interface

designed to streamline the design process

by providing the most common tasks directly

to the user in a common grouped interface.

In addition, a Quick Launch (or Quick Access)

toolbar is available easily access the most

used commands. Users have the freedom to

customize the Ribbon display and expand

the Quick Launch bar and panels to better

organize the layout for their particular design

flow.

Intelligent Cursor Interaction

IRONCAD DRAFT provides various cursor

interactions to provide a fluid and efficient

design environment. User can set the cursor

mode to intelligent, grid, free and guides to

provide feedback during cursor movements.

In addition, standard navigation can be set

to orthogonal, polar axis and three-view

navigation-aided drawing methods. The

system automatically captures feature points

and virtual feature points optimizing the

interactivity in the environment. At any time

adjust the interactive options to improve the

design time to create, navigate and edit the

design.

Multiple Redo and Undo Capabilities

Back track your recent actions more

conveniently and efficiently. The undo/redo

list allows you to undo/redo several actions or

just a single action at once.

Create layers and manage layer properties

easily and efficiently. Control how objects

are displayed and plotted including curves,

dimensions, symbols and the bill of material.

Use layers to reduce the visual complexity of

drawings, and improve display performance.

Compatibility

with AutoCAD™

Open, edit, and save any existing DWG file generated by AutoCAD® from version 2.5 to 2009. Full import support of AutoCAD® data structures. Direct read and editing of text, section lines, polylines, blocks, multi-line, forms, and other data directly corresponding to AutoCAD® layers such as line types, annotations, and text styles to avoid dislocation and garbled text that occurs. Support for images and OLE objects stored in AutoCAD® files.

In addition, there is full support for AutoCAD® application modes including multiple windows, multi-formats, multi-standards, multilingual usage and multi-paper space environments.

Multiple Document and Tab Environments

Customizing the Interface

It is easy for you to customize the IRONCAD DRAFT user

interface. You can modify menus, toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, and command aliases to meet your particular needs or company standards.

CRX - Powerful Application Programming

Interface

CRX is a new application programming interface (API) that

is similar to ARX. As one of the most powerful APIs in IRONCAD DRAFT, CRX enables developers to directly access DWG database, customize entities and migrate

their former ARX applications to IRONCAD DRAFT quickly.

Freely Distributable EXB Viewer

IRONCAD DRAFT includes a freely distributable native

.exb file format viewer - “EXB-Viewer”. Users will be

able to visualize IRONCAD DRAFT files saved in the

standard .exb file format. The EXBC-Viewer can

be distributed to non- IRONCAD DRAFT clients

to allow you to keep your team and customers closely

involved in your projects.

3D Design Interrogation and Communication

Model Verification and Interrogation

Open IRONCAD 3D data or import industry standard formats including ACIS, Parasolid,

IGES, STEP, Pro/E, and CATIA along with a large variety of graphical formats to perform model verification and interrogation to ensure proper design integrity and design feasibility.

This capability enhances the 2D design capabilities by providing form, fit, and function

capabilities which are difficult to achieve in 2D

by itself. For example, you can analyze the

models for center of gravity and mass

calculations as well as interference detection.

Use Smart Dimensions® to apply constraints

for building mechanisms to detect proper

motion and collision detection.

Import various designs from your

suppliers to build a complete

assembly design. Use powerful

tools such as the TriBall® to easily

position and orient objects in the

assembly. Once the assembly

is created, refer to the 3D in the

standard 2D detailing process to

create production designs. Updates made to

the assembly automatically update associative

generated 2D layouts reducing time in the

2D recreating or modifying multiple design

windows.

Powerful Interface for Design

Communication of IRONCAD Data

Using IRONCAD, companies can create

standard parts and assembly components

that can be stored in the Catalogs that can be

used in IRONCAD DRAFT to build

assemblies and detail in the 2D environment.

Intelligent information can also

be stored in the part/assembly

catalogs to provide SmartAssembly®

capabilities allowing the ability to

quickly create design concepts that

automatically position and size

based on company specified rules.

Using these capabilities, companies

can quickly build custom designs at

customer sites that can be directly

used in the 2D detailing process. This

can dramatically reduce the overall design

time and communicates the product

design directly with customers that lead to the

right products delivered on time.

Communicate with Realistic

Renderings

3D Designs can be communicated using

IRONCAD Drafts powerful realistic rendering

capabilities. Drag and Drop SmartPaints® on

parts and assemblies from the numerous

material catalogs to quickly apply the

desired look. Perform the rendering using

sophisticate rendering techniques including

super-sampling (a form of Antialiasing), Global

Illumination, Radiosity, Caustics, Direct and

Indirect lighting, and much more.

In addition, IRONCAD DRAFTS rendering

supports multi-threading to allow

you to create realistic renderings while

still working in the application environment.

Once complete, export the rendered image

into a variety of standard image

formats for communication. In

addition, leverage the exported

images in the 2D detailing process

for documentation or assembly

manuals to enhance illustrations and

communications.

Demonstrate Design

Concepts with Animations

Sometimes a rendered image may

not fully communicate the design

intent. Use IRONCAD DRAFT’s full

featured drag and drop animation

capabilities to build motions and

fly-through animations to better

communicate the design.

Share 3D Designs

During the design process, users

need to communicate with other

members. IRONCAD DRAFT

allows the ability to send images,

animations, and 2D/3D files for

communication. In addition, standard

viewers are available for download

to allow direct reading of the 2D/3D

designs.