IronCAD 2012 Improved
New improvements have been made to the 3D Constraint solver to aid users in positioning and modifying connected components. Dimensional constraints between parts and assemblies are now fully bi-directional meaning that either object is free to move in order to solve the desired positional change as you would expect in the real world between objects. In order to help determine which component should move, controls and default behaviors have been added to support a preferred move setting. This preferred moving object will move as long as it is free to move and is not fixed in the degrees of freedom by other objects. Advance setting are supported to allow objects within assemblies to move based on positional changes of objects outside of the assembly. This capability is powerful when objects within the assembly group change position with respect to other objects that don't necessarily belong to the same assembly which is often the case in mechanisms. Constraints added in the previous versions of the application will remain and solve in the existing method to maintain the existing behavior.
