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IronCAD and NEi Software Announce “NEi Nastran for IronCAD”

Nastran Based FEA in IronCAD's 3D Associative Environment  

ATLANTA, GA. Oct 26th, 2011 –IronCAD, LLC, the leading provider of design productivity solutions, and NEi Software today announced the immediate availability of NEi Nastran for IronCAD, a powerful finite element analysis solution designed to run inside of the user interface of IRONCAD and INOVATE. With NEi Nastran for IronCAD, product design teams can perform FEA pre-processing, analysis and post-processing within the same associative design environment to provide engineers the flexibility to test product designs before manufacturing.
By providing FEA early in the design process, companies can reduce errors, design and testing cycles, time-to-market, and product development costs which increase the return on investment. Running fully imbedded in the IronCAD Design Collaboration suite design products IRONCAD and INOVATE, users can leverage the full design strengths of these products to quickly build products and perform analysis studies reducing the number of physical prototypes before going into production.
“Integrating simulation early and throughout the design process is the wave of the future for design engineers.” commented Philip Potasiak, President of NEi Software. “NEi Software and IronCAD have partnered to develop NEi Nastran for IronCAD to address this critical need” he continued.
IronCAD registered users will be able to download and install the “NEi Nastran for IronCAD” that will enable users to run and explore the following capabilities as a fully functional node-limited version within IRONCAD and INOVATE:

• Linear Static and Steady-State Heat Transfer
• Normal Modes, Buckling, Composites, and Prestress
• Advanced Dynamics (Transient Response, Frequency Response)
• Nonlinear Analysis (Nonlinear Static and Transient Response)
• Nonlinear Transient Heat Transfer (Static and Transient)

As users needs extend, options are available to purchase licensed versions of the functionality to meet their design needs. For purchasing options, please contact at Adroitec Engineering Solutions Pvt Ltd (INDIA).

"Working with NEi Software to bring advance FEA capabilities into the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite products brings tremendous value to design engineers needing the capability to quickly design and analyze products." commented Cary O’Connor, Vice President of Product Marketing at IronCAD. "This partnership extends advance analysis capabilities beyond what is offered in the market to customers that need speed and flexibility in designing products which results in better products in a shorter time with greater return of investment" he continued.
For a full detailed product overview of the NEi Nastran for IronCAD, visit http://www.ironcad.com/NEiNastranforIronCAD.

The NEi Nastran for IronCAD solution is available for immediate download today from http://www.ironcad.com/research/solutionpartners/analysis/neisoftware/.

About IronCAD
Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD is a leading provider of 3D Design Productivity Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Solutions that can be used either standalone or as complimentary collaboration solutions of a broader PLM initiative. Its flagship product IronCAD has won many industry awards for its innovative technology and leads the industry in its ease of use and design productivity. IronCAD products are being used successfully by thousands of customers worldwide. For more information on IronCAD, call 1-800-339-7304 1-800-339-7304 or visit www.ironcad.com.
About NEi Software
NEi Software is a world leader in CAE innovation supplying Nastran Finite Element Analysis (FEA), engineering simulation, and virtual testing software solutions. For over 20 years, Engineers have used NEi Nastran to gain insight into product designs with digital prototypes, images, contour plots, graphs, and animations of linear and nonlinear structural stress, composites, deformation, dynamics, vibration, kinematics, impact, heat transfer and fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations. Those interested in learning more about NEi Software can visithttp://www.nenastran.com to view industry case studies (aerospace, automotive, maritime, petroleum, medical, and consumer products), white papers, online training, and demonstration videos.

IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012 Delivers 50% Increase in Productivity

IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012 Delivers 50% Increase in Productivity

ATLANTA, GA. September 21st, 2011 – IronCAD, LLC, the leading provider of design productivity solutions, today announced the release of the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012, a complete range of products that provide real collaboration between 2D and 3D, and enable users to communicate design data seamlessly throughout their design process within their organization and beyond.

The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012 is the next evolution of the most productive design applications in the industry today. The release focused on streamlining processes of the application to make the overall productivity even faster and more intuitive for designers.

"Users will immediately feel the impact of the reduction of mouse-clicks and mouse navigation travel" commented John Wright, Development Director for Response Designs & Development. "Furthermore, these streamlined processes bring additional flexibility and capabilities to the design process taking tedious tasks down to simple operations" he added.

Highlights of the productivity improvements implemented in the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012 include:

• More intuitive design workflows – Simplified command operations and direct manipulation throughout the application from size input, handle manipulation, to positional input reduce mouse clicks and mouse navigation improving the overall ease of use and design time.
• Optimized design processes - Intelligent behaviors have been implemented in the TriBall®, IronCAD’s most dynamic and unique position utility used in every aspect of positioning, which leads to a reduction in operations and expected user results as if the geometry was located in a users hand.
• Complex capabilities made simple – Intuitive 3D positional solving for real world behaviors and simple one-click options to drive parts and assemblies across groupings are provided to allow real world applications.
• More Complete and Powerful Design Solution – Improvements in the 3D-to-2D process and improved 2D processes within the integrated 2D Mechanical Design application provide a complete design process environment for designers.

In addition to the productivity improvements, focus was placed heavily on achieving even greater customer satisfaction through continuous improvements of stability, quality, and performance of the application. This release includes over a 1,000 enhancements to the quality of the application and has improved performance achieving gains from 20% to 50% improvement.

"Our research and product development teams focused heavily on the needs of the customers to achieve greater levels of productivity and this release places a stamp on the commitment to provide customer satisfaction" commented Cary O’Connor, Vice President of Product Marketing at IronCAD. "Customers can immediately understand how the improvements will lead to significant productivity improvements in the process reducing the overall design time by minimizing time in common day-to-day processes" he continued.

For a full detailed list of new features, visit http://www.ironcad.com/products/newfeatures.html.

The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite products and its accompanying portfolio of Gold Partner Products are available for immediate download. Shipments to existing customers will begin the end of September 2012. An evaluation copy of the latest product version is available for download today from http://www.ironcad.com/downloads. All new customers buying today will automatically receive the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012 Version.

About The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite

The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite 2012 consists of the complete range of products in a single installation. Customers can quickly and easily try all three products and Native Translators simultaneously.

	IRONCAD - A cost-effective, full-featured detail design production tool that utilizes a new Creative Design approach that delivers a level of design freedom unmatched in the industry today. IRONCAD is the tool of choice for design engineers when deadlines are tight and a high degree of unanticipated change is to be expected.
	INOVATE – The revolutionary low cost, easy to use 3D desktop product for creating, modifying, interrogating and communicating 3D designs. Its radical drag-and-drop 3D environment delivers unmatched ease-of-use, speed, design flexibility and power making it the most productive 3D concept design and communication tool available.
	IRONCAD DRAFT - 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.
	TRANS - Native CAD translators to run alongside IRONCAD, INOVATE, or IRONCAD DRAFT, providing read/write capability for CATIA and also read capability for Pro-E, Unigraphics, Solidworks & Inventor. This delivers a very powerful, yet low cost solution enabling users to communicate effectively at all levels.

Using the IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite products, users can leverage 3D within a 2D design process, conceptualize in 3D without restrictions in the modeling history, and complete full 3D and 2D production designs.

About IronCAD

Based in Atlanta, GA, IronCAD is a leading provider of 3D Design Productivity Solutions that deliver the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Solutions that can be used either standalone or as complimentary collaboration solutions of a broader PLM initiative. Its flagship product IronCAD has won many industry awards for its innovative technology and leads the industry in its ease of use and design productivity. IronCAD products are being used successfully by thousands of customers worldwide. For more information on IronCAD, call 1-800-339-7304 or visit www.ironcad.com.