IronCAD
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IronCAD bietet keine Gratisversion, aber eine kostenlose Testversion. Die kostenpflichtige Version von IronCAD ist ab 1,00 $/Jahr verfügbar.
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- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD bridges the crazy expensive CAD software world
I'm a small one-man studio. I can't afford the price that CAD developers get away with in their pricing. They seem to forget that there are many more small designers and engineers then there are large firms and we can't throw $10K or more at software anytime we need to. Ironcad provides all the functionality of software that costs 2 and 3 times more yet is as solid and reliable. It's as powerful and robust just fair on how it's priced.
Vorteile
First of all, because it doesn't cost $10K to deploy it. Secondly, because it is incredibly capable and I have not found anything I can't do with it. It has some fantastic tools that no other software has, one of them being what they call the "TriBall." It's a tool for manipulating objects and it's so fast and efficient.
Nachteile
It doesn't come with all the CAD format importers you need. If you share files with other more expensive software users, you may have to purchase additional importers. If you work alone like me, you rarely need that but occasionally I'll have a file I can't import and have to request an alternate format that I can. IronCAD can import a lot of formats by default, but a few exotic ones are not included.
- Branche: Eventservice
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD - very efficient
IronCAD with the KeyShot plug in has made a big difference in our business. There is so much more we can do, from detailed models to high quality renders and animations. IronCAD has allowed us to build detailed models quickly and the catalog system means we can easily use the same model parts over and over again.
Vorteile
The workflow is very efficient and with a minimal learning curve. It was easy to transition from Draftsight to IronCAD and we can do so much more with this program.
Nachteile
Very little cons, we work with a lot of large assemblies and IronCAD often switches into large assembly mode automatically. This had to be turned off to allow for a deeper level of editing but can be useful in certain circumstances.
- Branche: Industrieautomation
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Disappointing for a Premium Price
I bought IronCAD because I didn't realize that Dassault offered a perpetual license for SolidWorks. I also know that S/W is unstable with models over a certain size (10,000 parts, I think) and was hoping that I/C was more able to handle large models. It crashed consistently with the large model I loaded, though.
I've since discovered that I can buy a perpetual licenses of SolidWorks FOR THE SAME PRICE and am therefore standardizing on SolidWorks for my engineering firm. I was really looking forward to supporting an underdog and helping you displace SolidWorks with a superior product. Given that you're charging the same price as Dassault and mimicking their student license program, though, it seems that your Product Managers don't realize how far you have to go.
I bought a student license and then bought a full license to do commercial work. This has turned into a very expensive test drive.
Vorteile
The Triball is great.
Drag-and-Drop concepting/design is great.
The interface is far more intuitive than PTC Creo.
Being able to reorder objects in the model tree without crashing the model.
The complementary IronCAD Compose is fabulous.
The student licensing program was fantastic before it was turned into a subscription-based model.
Nachteile
It was quite expensive, considering the lack of maturity in the product. I started a bug list but then stopped because there were so many.
The parametric architecture is fractured and disjointed.
Dimensioning in the 2D drawing module is too erratic to be usable.
Dimensions in the 3D module hide by default and it's hit-or-miss as to which object to activate to show a placed dimension.
Not being able to export to sldasm or sldprt with the translator was an unexpected and stunning deficiency considering the price I paid for the Translator.
Having the file format change right after I purchased the software and NOT BE BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE was almost a death blow to my continuation as an IronCAD user since it prevents me from adding seats without complications or extra expense of upgrading. It was a bit galling to see the heavily-discounted price offers right after I paid a higher price, and I now see that you tricked your new users into buying a soon-to-be-obsolete version.
Being barred from having an account in the forum simply because I chose to purchase a perpetual license and no maintenance plan was quite a slap in the face.
The single-project-file structure isn't particularly valuable (S/W has the Pack-and-Go feature). It actually complicates CAD library management.
The Help file is terrible. Most entries simply describe the labels that are already readily-visible on a given dialogue box. Example: "LOAD Button: Click this button to load <the file, object, etc.>."
- Branche: Verteidigung & Raumfahrt
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
How Does IronCAD Shape Up
I don't use it daily, but I'm able to jump back in and create fairly complex designs and 2D drawings. I'm not a particularly proficient mechanical designer, but IronCAD helps me do needed design and prototype development.
Vorteile
While IronCAD is feature rich and generally bug-free, it is an outstanding value when compared products like SolidWorks.
Like any CAD program, there is a learning curve. Once you get past the initial learning curve, you can quickly become productive with IronCAD The Triball object positioning tool is the best; it makes moving 3D objects very easy.
Nachteile
While there are many video tutorials available to help anyone learn and use IronCAD, the lack of a comprehensive, current User Manual is a negative. I recognize that such a manual would be a large undertaking, but I still think it is needed.
- Branche: Bau
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Ideal for what we do
We design and install architectural aluminium roof line systems. I can draw a roof, design a fascia and split it all out ready for manufacture in a couple of hours. For a small business time is paramount. Ease of use, I was drawing parts within 5mins of starting the software. Its literally that easy to use. I probably dont use half of what IronCAD can do but he bit I do use is so simple.
Vorteile
The triball is a genius idea, it makes manipulating parts so much easier. I can draw a roof build up, drop it into a catalog and save it and re-use it again later. It makes things so much quicker
Nachteile
A couple of little niggles like the text box always being in front of the handle you are trying to move. Theres probably a way around it though.
- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Nice advanced features. Complex interface to use the advanced features.
It seems to have all the nice features I want. But I may need a 4 year post-graduation course to learn those advanced modes.
Vorteile
I like the ability to create designs variation and quickly visualizing various alternate designs.
Nachteile
Poor documentation especially in advanced features.
- Branche: Verpackung und Container
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Time saving
Mind changing from traditional cad .Once you Ironcad you will never go back.
Vorteile
Time saving and easy modification of design at an advanced stage.Caxa link and automation to issue BOM for production and costing.
Nachteile
No auto saving in Ironcad ,only saving alarm.
- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: 51–200 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Exhibit Designer
It has been good. When I have needed assistance the customer support team has been great. I appreciated that with the pandemic and our office closing and moving everyone to work from home, we were able to convert our network licenses to standalone licenses.
Vorteile
With my background in 3D modeling vs engineering IronCAD was an easier transition for me to learn 9 years ago. It is very user friendly for a designer to transition to and learn
Nachteile
On crash a number of times my settings and preset quick keys have disappeared on me.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you Chris for the positive review of the product and support team!
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Innovative Magnetic Technologies Review
To date i am fairly happy with Ironcad. We had to purchase the ironpro mechanical to really make the program beneficial to us. There are many tools with Ironpro that we use daily which have made our job of creating products more efficient.
Unfortunately i do not have any other 3D modelling program experience to reference against Ironcad.
Vorteile
The decision to move to 3d was made because Ironcad was a relatively low cost alternative to the higher cost competitors. I also was drawn to the intuitive drag and drop design philosophy and the flexibility to create assembly down type designs in one model. Also the Caxa integration was very welcome as our company used Autocadd for all its drawings and having Caxa gave us the ability to continue to utilize our existing drawing library along side the new 3d drawings. Without the Caxa portion of the program I doubt we would have used the program for long, and gone back to manual 2d for our products.
Nachteile
In the beginning we had a lot of issues with creating drawings which were equivalent in look and feel with that which we had been able to create in 2d Autocadd. The #1 biggest issue was the lack of any CAXA instructional data. The amount of information provided by the company in the form of a user guide is laughable at best. If I did not already have years of experience with Autocadd and CAXA's similarity to Autocadd I doubt i would have been able to get the program to make any sense at all. The only thing that makes Caxa usable is the forums where questions can be asked.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you for the review Peter. As you pointed out, we focus more on the 3D learning side since CAXA is similar to the AutoCAD use model. However we do see the growth in this area and will invest into more training in that area.
- Branche: Metallabbau
- Unternehmensgröße: 51–200 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Get IronCAD .It's valuable and worth
working with IronCAD is very pleasurable and useful. its very powerful
Vorteile
very user friendly and easy-to-use and very good support.
Nachteile
some times there are limitations for creating desire shapes and you need find more complex solution .
Antwort von IronCAD
Thanks for the review of IronCAD! We are happy to see that you get real value from the product!
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Almost Perfect
I design mechanical engineering items for serval customers and I can sit with an engineer and create their new design in real time.
Vorteile
Most of the features work really well and are intuitive. The speed of being able to create a new design is impressive. The triball is the best tool ever and saves hours of work when positioning parts. Generally it is a solid piece of software and very rarely crashes.
Nachteile
It does not work at all well with a high resolution display(3840 x 2160) some of the menu items are so small you cannot read them and in other areas the items overlap. After every new release there are some errors and these are not always fixed before the next version is released. Some of the less used features are feeling a bit dated like the visualization mode.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you Graham for the positive review of the speed of IronCAD. The latest versions of the product should have better support of High Res Monitors. If you are still seeing issues, feel free to contact support.
- Branche: Fluggesellschaften/Luftfahrt
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD - Powerful easy to Use CAD
Easy to use CAD
Vorteile
IronCAD has proven to be an essential tool in our company for the last 15years. Unlike similar software, its free design approach allows you to get on with the business of producing designs rather than worrying about model integrity. It has become significantly more powerful as the years go by.
Nachteile
There are many basic features lacking, (select by colour, divide a line in equal segments, solve a structural part on dimension or area, mechanism mode trace a 2d path, intersection of 3d parts with your current cross section, decent configuration control date created user etc).
Confusion about which 2d drawing environment to choose, i.e. ICD or CAXA
Smartmarkup features are an odd addition.
In Betracht gezogene Alternativen
Solid EdgeWarum IronCAD gewählt wurde
Poor 3d support (this was 15 years ago)Gründe für den Wechsel zu IronCAD
CostAntwort von IronCAD
Thank you Nick for the positive review and suggestions for improvements. Thank you for being a longtime use of IronCAD.
- Branche: Informationstechnologie & -dienste
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD from an insider
I can't speak on behalf of our business as we are resellers of the software, but I can categorically say we have a bunch of extremely happy clients that love to tell us how much they love the software and how much it has transformed their businesses. Very proud to be a part of that process. It makes selling the software very rewarding when we get that sort of feedback.
Vorteile
After many years of struggling against the giants of Autodesk Inventor and Dassault's SolidWorks we have now cracked the tipping point and find people are keenly embracing IronCAD over the other choices. As far as I can recall we have never had a former user of the competitor software ever return to those products and that is a testament to IronCAD's abilities and productivity increases for its users.
Nachteile
Simply the lack of proactive marketing by the developers who were very focused on the software and its abilities rather than getting involved in its awareness in the market. If they had been more marketing focused in the early years then they would have had the development funds earlier for product enhancements.
- Branche: Computer-Software
- Unternehmensgröße: 201–500 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Cheap CAD alternative for top market players
I started to use IronCAD as an alternative for AutoCAD and Inventor because of the price increase. In the beginning, I was not satisfied. Its strange menu, less intuitive than Autodesk or SolidWorks, and some bugs interrupting the work put me off a bit. However, as I was using it more and more, I started to feel more comfortable with IronCAD. That is true, it is a bit different than market-leading tools, but it is not worse. TriBall functionality is pretty amazing, saving a lot of time during model creation. Functionalities are pretty the same as in other CAD tools, with minor differences. Import of a lot of different file types with the possibility of modification is great and does not that often exist in competing tools. The huge advantage is customer support. They respond quickly and try their best to help with problems. Also, IronCAD is being constantly developed and it is noticeable in a positive way. All in all, it is not an AutoCAD, nor SolidWorks, but it is worth a try, especially for a significantly lower cost.
Vorteile
Relatively cheap price.
TriBall.
Amount of functionalities.
Customer support.
Nachteile
Little bugs make work annoying.
Minor problems with preview views blending togehter
- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
The most flexible product in its class
I have been a user since 1995 when IronCAD was known as Trispectives. It has helped me successfully design and create designs for feature films, theme parks, race cars, yachts and more.
Despite its deficiencies I still think its the most flexible and powerful 3D design tool in its class.
Vorteile
I work in the feature film industry where everything is extremely time constrained, fast changing and teams are often geographically dispersed. IronCAD dual kernel and translator add-on allow me to import and work with data from a wide array of sources from CG artists through to civil engineers.
IronCADs workflow is much less constrained than other products which makes it easier and faster to develop design ideas and concepts.
When it comes time to build, I use add-ons like IC Mechanical to speed up the design of my steel structures and output 2D files for CNC etc.
Nachteile
In my long term opinion IronCAD's 2D drawing utilities have always been lack lustre. I have tried both IC's native drawing and CAXA (yes IronCAD has 2 drafting systems!), but neither are fully implemented, efficient or bug free.
The good news is that IC does a good job exporting 2D views of your designs so you can draft them elsewhere.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thanks Mitch for the review! Great work and a very interesting use of IronCAD!
- Branche: Maschinerie
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD for Industrial Machine Design
We are using IronCAD for all our machine design. We began our transition from 2D CAD to a well known 3D CAD competitor but ran into roadblocks with cost and implementation. We found IronCAD and have rapidly moved forward with 3D design for fabrication and marketing.
Vorteile
Ease of use, cost, intuitive drag and drop design process, easy part catalogs, easy setup, parts can be stored in single assembly file, awesome customer support, company is open to user input and actively improving the product based on feedback
Nachteile
User base is smaller than competitors with less help online, a little difficult for users of competitor's 3D CAD software to make the transition to IronCAD's workflow (but they love it once they figure it out)
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you George for the positive review on IronCAD and how it is being used in your machine design process!
- Branche: Architektur & Planung
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Consider Both Sides Of The Product
Overall I am more productive within the IronCAD model environment due to the Tri-Ball and the fewer limitations on creating parts and assemblies. I am disappointed in the documentation environment but have been told that the development team is continually enhancing the software.
Vorteile
Building and working within the model. The Tri-Ball is at the top of the list. This adds a very flexible method for navigation and positioning in the model. The ability to work with fewer constraints or even none. The flexibility within the history tree is awesome. The catalogs are a nice touch. Ability to use both parasoilid and/or ACIS. Support is top notch. Compared to past experiences. My support contact is quick to respond and exhibits the drive and ability to get a resolution. This is enhanced due to the fact that my contact actually uses the product in his company.
Nachteile
Documenting in the drawing environment. The documentation environment needs to be more mature and current. Navigating in the sheets is cumbersome and clunky. Text and symbol features, placement and manipulation are inconsistent and lacking. Tools for adding additional line work on the sheets are cumbersome to add, manipulate and edit.
Navigating with a 3D mouse control is sporadic.
- Branche: Automotive
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
3d Printing and Prototyping with Ironcad
As an inventor and president of an inventor group, I find that Ironcad is indispensable. I have designed things for members and made prototypes for them. I also build models and really can not live without the ability to design and print many parts.
Vorteile
I have been a user before it was called Ironcad. It was called Tryspectives then. Many years ago. I have upgraded twice since then. When given the opportunity to show others how easy it is to use, they seem to be quite impressed. Especially over parametric software. Ironcad does this also but I do not use it much. I do 3D printing of prototypes and Ironcad is great at producing solid models and easy to modify models if needed. Everything I think up is modeled in Ironcad to empty my head for the next project. I currently use release 2015.
Nachteile
The thing I wish it did better is free form modeling. Mechanical stuff is great. Free form is more difficult. Also the ability to work with .stl ( Triangulated mesh ) files. It will import them but with no ability to modify. I would be using 2020 if the cost were lower but as a one person company, revenue is down. That OK as 2015 does most of everything that I need.
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
simplicity and speed
I have very good experience with ironcad
Has worked for many years with ironcad (started with version 2)
Since most of what I do is about automation, usually one machine, ironcad fits perfectly,
compared to colleagues working in other systems (Solidworks,
AutoCad 3D)
Vorteile
Very efficient way of working. Can be worked from sketch to finished production drawings, without leaving IronCad.
Completely independent of constrains (simple and forgiving way of working). Simple drawing rules (compared to Solidworks) Has worked as a consultant for major Swedish companies that have design departments Has drawn in front of large audiences who are amazed at the simplicity of ironcad Which has been a strong selling point for getting a job for my company
Nachteile
Surface modeling tools are not really good
Sometimes you would like to have better tools
Solidwork has better tools for the plastics industry
Works a lot with molds for plastic, cutting tools for sheet metal etc.
Measurement has improved, but there is still room for improvement
I have contact with other designers who use ironcad They complain about the 2D tools (?)
- Branche: Luft- & Raumfahrt
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Simply the Best
I have earned a living using IronCAD. IronCAD has allowed me to compete and win.
Vorteile
Reasonable learning curve, consistent user interface, a very capable solid modeller, which also has a surprising number of surface tools and surface editing capability.
Nachteile
Setting up and managing project files and shared libraries could be made easier, though the capabilies are all there.
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Ironcad as bases of design
We are a company that uses ironcad every day with 3 users and we build a lot of custum machines. ironcad is a very fast program and easy to learn for this kind of work
Vorteile
We are have ironcad for over 17 years now and also tried other software for 3D design but the best part of ironcad is that you can start a design very easy without using constrains and build up a drawing very fast
Nachteile
At the 2D end ironcad can improve in compare to other software like solidworks
- Branche: Automotive
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Iron Clad and IronCAD
For my needs, I was looking for a simple tool to import geometry to provide design assessment and to review assemblies for functional GD&T proposals. I didn't need a drawing (2D) capability at the time. So this tool has exceeded my expectations. It has allowed me to provide alternative concepts on designs I'm reviewing. I'm so happy I made this choice and may be looking to upgrade to try more advanced capabilities.
Vorteile
It was fairly simple to learn. My previous trained and professional experience had been CATIA V4 and V5. Ideas, SolidWorks and NX, and was able to pick up on the methodology very quickly. It is intuitive and fairly straight forward. A wide variety of import and export options come standard. It opens large assemblies quick and efficiently. The ability to manipulate imported (non-native) geometry is really great and time-saving. I love the ability to drag and drop basic and advanced geometry into the design.
Nachteile
Occasionally It will crash and close down but most of the time when I asked it to do something extraordinarily difficult. Rarely for no reason, but it does occasionally.
I wish I could create Datum Planes to use for section cutting and mirroring geometry. I know I can achieve without them, but to me, it would be more intuitive.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you for the review Brian!
- Branche: Maschinerie
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
I can not understand
We have been using Ironcad since 1998 or 1999. We are designing our own machineries using Ironcad, but we are also working as consultants designing machineries for some of our customers using both Solidworks and Inventor, so we have a good experience of the differences.
Vorteile
It is very easy to design a new machinery in the 3D-scene. It is a great benefit that you can design a hole assy and afterwards select how you like to have your sumassy´s and details.
Nachteile
The 2D-interface and funconality making an ICD-file is a totalt disaster. It is depending on the grafic´s, time for update of scene´s is too long, sections is really bad, for example you have to fill in data for welding symbols each time you activate the function instead of getting last data as default, and so on. We have since 1998 reported a lot of ideas´s how to make it better, but unfortunatly we can not see aallmost no improvement
- Branche: Unternehmensberatung
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Gerald Harding's Thoughts
IronCAD is generally great to use, I hope to see continuing improvements
Vorteile
General methodology- Triball, Catalog, single file and ease of drawing creation are the aspects that sets IronCAD apart from other CAD software.
Nachteile
There numerous minor niggles, too many to list in this survey. There needs to be a place where suggestions and problems can be posted easily. Draft is not really properly integrated. With minor improvements to Drawing, Draft would be redundant. I am trying summarise the problems that I have, my trouble is time to accurately describe and suggest changes.
Cost of annual upgrades.
It would be nice if IC-Mechanical would be an integral part of IronCAD.
- Branche: Sportartikel
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
The only CAD I'll ever use
I purchased IronCAD Innovate as a package with my Tormach PCNC1100 CNC Mill 7-yrs ago. Prior to this, I was given a copy of Solid Works to try and was completely lost as to where to start. So technically, my first experience with creating a CAD model was with IronCAD. Innovate has allowed me to do everything I could imagine for rendering designs to do CNC work as well as making a newly patented product. In the 7-yrs of use, I saw online CNC bloggers advertise other CAD software, some of which are free, and the most popular one being we based. I looked at them out of curiosity and did not think they compared to versatility of solid modeling and none of them had the Tri-Ball. I was also working on a product that was patent pending so trusting them with my designs was not an option. The other great thing about IronCAD is the tech support. As a self taught machinist and inventor, putting thoughts to paper was easy but my experience with CAD got me stumped a few times. I could always rely on [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] to patiently walk me through things I just couldn't figure out on my own. I'm still a one-man shop and am too busy to even consider what else is out there. As far as I'm concerned, IronCAD is the only CAD software that will be installed on my computers. Both the tech support and software have never failed me so IronCAD is stuck with me as customer.
Vorteile
Ease of use, tech support, functionality.
Nachteile
There's nothing I dislike about IronCAD Innovate.
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
unparalleled ease of use for concept generation
Ironcad allows me to take on jobs with much less time available than I previously have done because it's productivity is unrivalled.
Vorteile
The ability to make models without a feature history or parent-child relationships makes it's very easy for concept generation and development without the need to completely remodel once a design has been established.
the tribal makes locating imported models and other component unbelievably easy compared to industry leading software
Nachteile
Database design and look feels dated and the rendering I find it difficult to use.The drafting element is not its strongest point but it is sufficient
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you for the review Richard! It's great to read that IronCAD is helping improve your productivity in jobs.
- Branche: Architektur & Planung
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Easy to use need some social aspects
Design showrooms, booth, furniture, displays
Vorteile
With IronCad you can create quick and easy your design. The Tribal is een important tool to work with. Also the connection between 3d and drawings works very well
Nachteile
Making a video like walking in a room or showroom. Also the integration with VR is very important. The rendering tool is not easy in use. I don't like keyshot. It is still a lot of work to make a hr rendering. Import from files from other brands gives often problems. Sketch up grows very fast. I don't want to change. IronCad please do your best.
Antwort von IronCAD
Hi Jos, Thank you for the review on the speed to creation of IronCAD. We would be interested in your needs for the rendering and VR side. Feel free to contact me with more information on your needs, dislikes of KeyShot and product you typically use today for this area.
- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Powerful top down, bottom up CAD software
N/A
Vorteile
IronCad offers me as a product designer unparalleled flexibility in the design process. At the start of a project, I never know what the end result will look like or how many parts, or what features are dependent on what geometry, Ironcag give me the flexibility to focus on design without constraining my process.
Nachteile
It crashes and you lose all your work if you don't save regularly.
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Solid EdgeGründe für den Wechsel zu IronCAD
N/AAntwort von IronCAD
Thank you Adrian for the review. It's great to see the flexibility IronCAD offers to you. Our team is constantly improving the quality and any additional input you have would be great to share to our development team. Please feel free to reach out to me on this subject.
- Branche: Sportartikel
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD DCS review
Used in a very varied environment, ranging from small detail parts to very large (yachts).
For studies, preparing final geometry and for preparing simulation models.
Vorteile
Very straightforward to use and allows freedom of design from the start of a project, without getting tied down in setting up the model. Can be significantly faster than other software. Great especially for one off projects where a traditional parametric modelling tool can become cumbersome.
Viewing, alignment tools are without equal in other software.
Good linking with 2d / drawing package.
Nachteile
There are some inconsistencies with some of the features where it is not always simple or straightforward to edit items later.
The graphics can be a little slower to display than some competing software.
- Branche: Automotive
- Unternehmensgröße: 1.001–5.000 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
System for you
We purchased the system after purchasing fixturing components from Renishaw fixturing solutions to use with our Metrology Department to pull in the fixturing components and has ended up being a system that our team uses a lot of a wide range items.
Vorteile
The system has a lot of features packed into this software. From being able to design small to large components and being able to create assemblys. Initially purchased to be used with layout fixture components, but has come i to something that I have used to separate cad models and design components for my company for fixtures for part verifications and room layouts. This is a product that I use nearly on a daily basis but it is definitely use every week. The system can be purchased at a very reasonable price. For a newer user most features are easy to use for the more detailed individuals that dig into designing it takes a little bit to learn but compared to other software's it may have a slightly less time to learn how to use the system.
Nachteile
It maybe in the software but have not used the cad to drawings, but it has ability to open drawings.
- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Excellent for not-so-engineering-type designers
Overall for designing in the event industry, it's been very good for our use.
Vorteile
The graphic interface of IronCAD is very easy to use for a user like myself who is less technical. Because I'm designing more in the abstract sense, the interface and modeling tools let me work a little more freeform than other programs I've tried.
Nachteile
Because of the technical nature of it, processes tend to be a "long road" to get done. That may be the nature of CAD, but I find some things counter intuitive.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you for the review Erik. Skyline's usage fits very well with IronCAD's Drag and Drop design concept. There are ways to improve the process for your usage and would be happy to discuss some of the idea if you like. Thanks for being a longterm user!
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Easy to use and practical software
i used is now for 25 years and i love it
Vorteile
that you can draw en develop freely without contrains ect
Nachteile
the new version is not stable. the versions before where better
- Branche: Krankenhausversorgung & Gesundheitswesen
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
user since Trispectives 1.0
Allowed us to move directly to 3D modelling very early onand negate the need for drawings during product development.
Vorteile
The Triball and the fact that it's an innovative, non-history based modeller that supports both ACIS and parasolid kernels. The drag-and-drop standard as well as customizable catalogs.
Nachteile
Caxa draft, buggy UI and features that often are not fully developed. The time it takes to reset preferences after updates.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you for the review Pete!
- Branche: Kunst & Handwerk
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
IronCAD Is Fantastic
I purchased IronCAD to design the first product for my company. Without it, my creation would have never come to life. I was able to teach myself how to use IronCAD with ease and create a ready for manufacture product that I have now brought to the market. I highly recommend this over other CAD programs especially AutoCAD and would suggest anyone looking to design products from complex to simple to check out IronCAD and give it a try first!
Vorteile
Ease of use
Relative Low Cost
Powerful tools/features
Nachteile
None, IronCAD did exactly what I needed it to and was not lacking for my use purposes, hard to believe I know. I guess a con could be it doesn't have any features for architecture, but that isn't what I need it for so it doesn't bother me.
Antwort von IronCAD
Hi Jeff, Thank you for the review. I'm glad to see that IronCAD helped bring your creation to life!
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
My experience
I design all my products with ironcad. By far it is most user friendly program that i have used. When it is working, then very happy with but some shapes and fillets this program doesnt like and then it is very hard to complete some tasks. In some cases get too many error messages. Overall very happy and like the program but small thinks that are some times little bit annoying.
Vorteile
It is very quick. Very simple to use. Very good to do some rapid prototyping and get ideas to simple 3d models.
Nachteile
I dont like that it crashes quite much and i have lost lots of progress on my design many many times.
- Branche: Elektrische/elektronische Fertigung
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Ironcad Review
We've used Ironcad for almost 20 years (from when the company was formed, and the software was called Trispectives). At times we looked to use other software, but always ended up coming back to Ironcad.
Vorteile
Ease of use, small file sizes. The ability to create an assembly and only create separate files for parts as necessary keeps data requirements smaller than competitors. Triball functionality is great. Having both ACIS and parasolid kernels is a plus when working with various customers, making it easier to transfer data that can be easily manipulated.
Nachteile
2D drafting features could be improved. At times, we can't get the dimensioning we need. We've found workarounds, but would be simpler if we could measure directly.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you Alan for the positive review and happy to have you as a longterm customer!
- Branche: Papier & forstwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Long time user
Don't use this as a 1 man shop
Vorteile
Ease of use and functionality. Very easy to design what I want. The price for value. Add-ons are at a very reasonable price. Functionality the same as other 3D CAD software on the market.
Nachteile
At this point I don't have any issues with the software.
In Betracht gezogene Alternativen
OnshapeGründe für den Wechsel zu IronCAD
In process, it's not my decision, since it would be for a client.Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you for the review John!
- Branche: Automotive
- Unternehmensgröße: 10.000+ Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Concepts in an hour
Been using since version7 in the nineties, we were early adopters. Used for concept work ever since. The code is solid always has been. Keep moving !
Vorteile
I am design coach and innovation driver and as such making diverse physics into concepts quickly as in during a workshop is vital to bringing the team to come with more concepts.
My skills are limited as a CAD designer and IronCad allows me to move quickly and
get the team energy moving with models
Nachteile
Manuel is very limited, I need to go to youtube to see how to make things. For instance routing wires 3d ugg, forget how a lot. Maybe a link from your pros would help us old guys "remember" faster.
- Branche: Design
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Why the world needs to know this Software
It is nothing short of incredible.
Speed to market. Multiple ways to create models. No hand cuffs at all!
Vorteile
It is so intuitive! Nothing close on the market and with the shortest learning curve.
Nachteile
It looks and feels too much like SolidWorks.
Don't try to appease those that are SW users. Market to those that don't have the time nor patience to learn SW.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you Francois for the great review on IronCAD's intuitiveness!
- Branche: Lebensmittelproduktion
- Unternehmensgröße: 5.001–10.000 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
true story
the first month was very difficult, but only better after that
Vorteile
Triball, drag and drop solids, the ability to change the order of operations, work in innovative and parametric modes, easy parameterization of objects
Nachteile
Caxa - a product from China that does not always work like a flat Auto Cad, and a sheet metal module, which is missing a lot from the sheet metal module in Inventor
- Branche: Möbel
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Our use
Vorteile
Ironcad allowed our design staff to transition to using the MACPRO desktops for the development of photoreal renderings. The tools provided by Ironcad allowed for this process to be relatively easy and painless. Plans, typicals and building spaces developed in Autocad were transferred and rendered. We were able to build a library of rendered products that could be used in any project. This allowed us to speed up the response time for each drawing.
Nachteile
Initially, our designers had some trouble understanding the command structure. Although the problem was as much the inherent complexity of high quality rendering. for example change the light source, intensity and type would sometimes produce unexpected results
- Branche: Verpackung und Container
- Unternehmensgröße: 201–500 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Best software I have ever used, cannot think of anyother
The easiest, best and cheapest software I have used for designing packaging solution.
Vorteile
Ease of design, expression features. Most likely the tribal plays a very important role
Nachteile
While importing 3D model in IGES format, many of the features gets destroyed while transferring our doesn't get transferred at all.
- Branche: Maschinenbau oder Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Weitere für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Ironcad advantage
Material handling euqipment in mining industri
Vorteile
Easy to use and learn. Self-teaching
Nachteile
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- Branche: Metallabbau
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Monatlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Great features, lacks tutorials
We purchased for a specific project. It worked well. There was rapid learning from the onset of this app and great intuition allowed great results in a short while. But beyond the limits of the interactive classes, all other features are hard to learn, find or understand.
Each tool button/icon should have a link to a tutorial on how to fir quick learning and exploration.
Vorteile
The tribal is brilliant, Intuitive and powerful.
Nachteile
Our need to use ironcad is intermittent. We never got to use the free trial features of the collaborative suite. When an opportunity became available, the feature expired. Many features are difficult to find, use or understand. If they are not part of the tutorial, the f1 help is clunky and the YouTube populated support how-to video is limited. If you need help on how-to, your pretty much on your own. This makes the user less likely to reach for the tool, which reduces the experience and growth of the tools knowledge, hence less less frequent use.
If you or your company only has an occasional project, this tool has fewer user so finding support amoungst peers is not likely.
- Branche: Konsumgüter
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Ironcad intuitive
Efficient, uncluttered menu system, fast processing allowed me to create concept designs very quickly and detailed finalized designs very smooth and accurately. Excellent file format interpretation.
Vorteile
Features very intuitive and follow a logical progression dure the development of models.
Nachteile
Inability to transfer model history to other CAD formats
- Branche: Biotechnologie
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für 6-12 Monate genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Pleasantly surprised!
It is a feature-rich, useful tool once you learn it! I found it to suit my needs, but warning: If you don't like the lack of a user manual, then maybe you should try another product. It's quite difficult sometimes to understand certain features, and you'll have to browse through some forum or watch a video because IronCAD doesn't do a good job of explaining much.
Vorteile
In my research field, I've had to try various different CAD softwares and I was impressed by this one. IronCAD has a list of catalogs which was informative and quite simple to use. There aren't too many bugs with this application that I ran into, and besides the learning curve, it had a lot of features that were much more useful.
Nachteile
There wasn't a user manual when I used this, which was a huge con for me. Additionally, the Help file feature isn't great either. A lot of the learning I did by myself and I watched videos on Youtube, but the actual software didn't do a great job of teaching me how to use it.
- Branche: Großhandel
- Unternehmensgröße: 2–10 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Ironcad
I am very happy with Ironcad. The only thing is that there is no CAM functionality.
Vorteile
Ease of use with the triball.
Nachteile
I am not sure how to setup a modular build, the most easy way if parts are changing..
- Branche: Kunststoffe
- Unternehmensgröße: Selbstständig
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
Checking designs
Good graphics.
Easy to import files as parts or assemblies.
Easy to export parts or assemblies.
Vorteile
The relative easiness to import various file formats.
Easy to install.
Fantastic support from Solidmakarna.
Nachteile
I miss some specific plastics designing tools.
It doesn't alway lead you to a straight forward command for operations I wish to make.
The section cuts are slow to operate/move around with TriBall.
Rather slow with many parts having draft angles and radii.
Tricy with various methods to check dimensions in parts, how these save or not and is called out after hiding when command is finished.
- Branche: Verpackung und Container
- Unternehmensgröße: 11–50 Mitarbeiter
- Täglich für Mehr als 2 Jahre genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
User
All fine, we use it to CAD Wood pallets.
Vorteile
Easy to use easy to save on differens format.
Nachteile
I cant say any, I like the program, Its easy to use.
- Unternehmensgröße: 1.001–5.000 Mitarbeiter
- Wöchentlich für Mehr als 1 Jahr genutzt
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Quelle der Bewertung
It is a tool designed for mechanical design, efficient and effective, easy to learn and good...
In the educational area I have used it to generate specific mechanical pieces in the design of corn thresher, mills, etc. This gives the students a wide range of options that contribute to enrich their training and selection of software for future designs.
Vorteile
The software allows users to choose between a parametric, direct mode or a combination of both modalities in a single environment. This allows designers to freely explore design ideas and create models dynamically on the screen without having to pre-plan and plot the concept in advance.
Nachteile
There is little information, which makes it difficult to understand how some program tools work more efficiently, this makes one take more time to design the elements or pieces.
Antwort von IronCAD
Thank you Jorge for the positive review of IronCAD for mechanical designers.