IronCAD Draft - 2D Drawing Software for Mechanical and Product Design

Why IRONCAD DRAFT ?

2D Drawing is Redefined

IRONCAD DRAFT is a powerful 2D design environment for creating, detailing, and editing production designs. IRONCAD DRAFT (a component of the Design Collaboration Suite), an extremely powerful 2D mechanical drafting tool with an easy to learn, industry standard user interface and a unique 3D integration capability, enabling users work in 2D but also to view, leverage, analyze, render and reference 3D model data created by suppliers customers and colleagues.

While the core of IRONCAD DRAFT is 2D Design, designers often work around supplied 3D Data from multiple sources. IRONCAD DRAFT offers a unique 3D environment that supports native import/export of IRONCAD 3D and industry standard formats where users can assemble, interrogate, analyze, communicate realistic renderings/animations, and leverage the 3D in the detailing process. In the detailing process, a “3D Interface” ribbon tab is available that allows the ability to detail 3D designs using standard views, section views, detail views, and many others useful to layout the design data while having full association to the 3D data.

Streamlined User Interface and Customization

IRONCAD DRAFT utilizes 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, it is easy for you to customize the user interface to quickly access the most common commands in your day to day process. As with any industry standard 2D application, IRONCAD DRAFT offers a powerful application programming interface to customize corporate standard utilities and processes.

Unrivaled Compatibility with AutoCAD®

This environment offers unrivaled compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG/DXF data allowing users to share and leverage legacy design data. In addition, the environment offers a reduced learning curve
by supporting command input and interactions found in AutoCAD®. IronCAD-Draft AutoCAD

Open, edit, and save existing DWG file generated by AutoCAD® to share and communicate with design team members accurately. Easily adapt to the IRONCAD DRAFT interface from its familiar environment that offers many commands commonly found in AutoCAD®.

3D Design Interogation and Communication

Import industry standard formats including ACIS, Parasolid, IGES, STEP, IRONCAD 3D, Pro/E, UG (NX), and CATIA along with a large variety of graphical formats to perform task to better verify and communicate your design projects. Multiple models can be imported to build assemblies, verify interferences, and to communicate the 3D representation to customers using realistic rendering and animations. Build your own custom catalog components to quickly assembly and communicate products in real-time to potential customers to help communicate your projects upfront. In addition, leverage the 3D data with full association in the 2D detailing to speed up the layout process and to automatically reuse critical information from the 3D such as bill of materials and measurement information.

Cost Effectiveness

IRONCAD DRAFT is the most competitive priced product in its class. It comes standard with all the the best value to be found in the market today.

Brochures

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Rolling Demo

Video presentation is a great way to demo the software. This is a simple model of many more videos that can be viewed directly from IRONCAD Learning Center

Customer Testimonial

MDTG "Innovation is the echoing theme of our company, so it only made sense to acquire the tools that will allow our engineers to perform their jobs with speed and efficiency, while at the same time not restraining their creativity. IRONCAD made this happen."

- Howard McCall, President & CEO-----------------------------------------------------------------------

"The freeform methods of modeling allow the non-technical people involved with the workflow to see the conceptual ideas and contribute their own ideas without being intimidated by the traditional constraints of high-end CAD software."

- Rick Dorrington, Manager-------------------------------------------------------------

IRONCAD DRAFT Trial

For engineers who want to learn on their own and have the time to explore the details of IRONCAD DRAFT software through self guided tutorials. The accompanying tutorials guide you step by step in building 2D model, drawings, and much more.

IRONCAD Design Collaborative Suite

With IronCAD’s Design Collaboration Suite, engineers communicate more freely. Dual ACIS and Parasolid kernels allow precise, error-free import and export of native SAT and X_T files as well as common file formats like IGES, CATIA V4, and STEP. Add the low-cost TRANS bundle and even access native formats such as CATIA V5, Pro/E Granite, UG/NX, SolidWorks, and Inventor.

IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite
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