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ICDRAFT 2012 – Full
featured 2D for Architects and Engineers.
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IRONCAD DRAFT 2012
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IRONCAD DRAFT 2012 is a powerful 2D design
environment for creating, detailing, and editing
production designs. This environment offers
unrivalled 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®.
While the core of IRONCAD DRAFT 2012 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 use
the 3D in the detailing of components.
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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.
IRONCAD DRAFT’s user interface and powerful
offerings provide an efficient and productive
environment for 2D detailing needs. The details
below further strengthen the capabilities of IRONCAD
DRAFT to meet your design needs.
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Powerful
Production Capabilities
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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.
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Dynamic
Input
Creation
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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.
In-Place MTEXT Editor
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.
Find and Replace Text Capabilities
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.
Table and Attribute Driven Tables
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.
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Parametric Standard Parts Library
Included in IRONCAD DRAFT
application is the standard part design library that
contains
hundreds of standard parts that
are driven parametrically. 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. You can also easily
create your own parts such as doors, windows, nuts or bolts.
Mechanical 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
detail common mechanical annotations such
as geometric tolerances, datum placements,
weldments, chamfer, technical requirements
notes, and surface finishes.
Efficient Blocks and Attributes
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.
Full Range of Dimensioning Capabilities
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.
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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.
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Flexible and Streamlined User Interface
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Streamlined
User
Interface
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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.
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Layers and Properties
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™
DWG/DXF Support
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.
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Multiple Document and Tab Environments
You work more efficiently with
IRONCAD
DRAFT’s Multiple Document Environment
which allows you to open up to multiple files
in a single session and work between the
documents for a parallel design environment.
In addition, IRONCAD DRAFT provides a
Multiple Document Tabs which lets you
quickly select tabs to access multiple open
documents.
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.
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3D Design
Interrogation and Communication
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Full 3D/2D Association
IRONCAD DRAFT can utilise 3D data in the 2D
detailing process to easily create automatic
standard, section, detail, and other view
layouts.
Modifications
performed in the 3D will automatically update
the generated views to ensure that the design
has the proper detailing information. In
addition to the layout capability, association
is automatically created for intelligent
information stored on the 3D such as bill of
material information and critical dimension
callouts which increase productivity by avoiding
manual creation of this information in the
detailing phase.
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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.
Assembly
Design
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.
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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
leveraged 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.
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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 2012
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.
System
requirements
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OS:
Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7
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(32 and 64-bit supported)
(Home Editions are not supported)
- CPU: Intel
Pentium 4 or higher
- (current AMD processors also
supported)
- RAM: Minimum:
2GB
- (Recommend: 4GB or 8GB for very
large assembly work).
- Video:
OpenGL hardware-accelerated graphics card
- (for best results see
HOOPS Compatibility).
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Disk space:
1GB
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