IronCAD Launches Multi-Physics Integration

Integrated FEA Boosts IronCAD Design Productivity

ATLANTA GA, Nov 13th 2014 - IronCAD, a leading provider of design productivity solutions, today announced a new seamlessly integrated Multi-Physics module. "Multi-Physics for IronCAD" (MPIC) is the newest generation of integrated CAD/FEA for general entry to advanced design simulations. MPIC focuses on ease of use and provides fully coupled Multiphysics with stress, thermal, and electrostatic analysis.

Traditional FEA solutions are specialized for advanced users and are not particularly well suited for quick, in-process design analysis. With MPIC, users at any skill level will be able to use full FEA capabilities. Seamlessly integrated, users can simply add material, forces or constraints and the AutoSolve meshes and returns analysis results. Any modifications to the IRONCAD model enables an analysis re-solve in seconds

As part of the IronCAD Gold Partner Program, a node-limited version of MPIC is included with full product capabilities with the standard IRONCAD solution. Beyond the included version, customers can purchase a full accuracy basic version, advance version, and add-on functionality. MPIC is available for purchase through IronCAD distributors along with product licensing and technical support.

Cary O'Connor, Vice President of Marketing at IronCAD had this to say, "Our goal was to help our customers solve complex multi-physics tasks quickly and accurately. MPIC is an advanced multithread FEA application with fast solver technology that can process large models with millions of equations in minutes."
Cary added, "Even though the included version is node-limited, MPIC's technology gives our customers extended capabilities to quickly and accurately test their product designs. We believe that all IronCAD customers can benefit from increased design productivity."

Chuck Paulsen, Business Director of AMPS Technologies states, "We designed MPIC to deliver a videogame-like experience to analysis but behind the scenes, the advanced and robust AMPS technology provides a true what-if analysis tool for designers who need to pre-check, concept-proof, and experiment with different design scenarios. Collaboration with IronCAD offers a win-win solution for customers with innovative and easy-of-use solid modeling combined with completely integrated multi-physics analysis."

Ted Lin, founder of AMPS Technologies states, "Since the founding of AMPS in 2003, we've been driven to create the newest and most-advanced technology for our customers. We developed from the ground up the newest generation of LSFEA (Least-Squares FEA) and SefeaTM (Strain Enriched FEA) for integrated stress, thermal, fluid and electromagnetic to meet this goal."

Multi-Physics for IronCAD and technical information is available for immediate download at http://www.ironcad.com/MPIC.

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. Individual components of this solution can be used standalone, complementary within an existing design environment, or can be used together to collaborate effectively throughout the enterprise to extend productivity. 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.

About AMPS
(Advanced Multi-Physics Simulation) Technologies Company was established in 2003 with to provide new generation FEA to deliver advanced office-tool style finite element software based on best software engineering design and the most up-to-date FE technology. AMPS Technologies has pioneered SefeaTM (Strain-Enriched FEA) formulation and LSFEA (least-Squares FEA) technology in commercial applications with leading academic and national laboratory researchers and has expanded the technology to stress, thermal, fluid and electromagnetic applications using a consistent framework. As such, AMPS is the only product on the market with the accuracy, reliability, and true multi-physics abilities in CAD-centric analysis when automatically generated low order tetra elements are the favored options. For more information about AMPS, visit www.ampstech.com.

Carlo Borer Opens New Doors in Developing Extraordinary Artwork

Case Study - Art Design

Company: Carlo Borer

Industry: Art Creation

Location: Switzerland

Company Background:

Freelance Artist, Carlo Borer creates three-dimensional sculptures and art objects. His large chrome steel creations can be seen throughout Europe and the USA where some of his work found its way into Hollywood film productions. This Swiss designer creates 3D models in a digital environment using CAD and virtual reality. To manufacture his sophisticated sculptures, he also utilizes high-tech tools such as lasers.

The Challenge:

In 1998, Carlo was looking for a CAD system that was easy to understand with good visual appearance and feedback. At that time, CAD was not very intuitive and seemed more appropriate for engineers but not for artists or artistic designers. 

IronCAD The Productivity Solution:

Then Carlo discovered IronCAD, a product that allowed him to work directly in 3D. He found that he could simply drag basic shapes into his 3D scene and start to modify them to meet his needs. Today, he loves working in this way. Carlo designs his creations using the patented IronCAD Triball. This powerful software tool offers a huge range of possibilities for the user. One can easily handle geometry positions; arrange, rearrange, copy, link, and much more. Carlo finds that the possibilities offered by IronCAD are unique in the CAD world.

Complete freedom in design, along with a scene browser, lets Carlo manage all shapes, parts, assemblies and dive into each whenever needed. Also the scene browser lets him keep a proper structure for the parts in a scene. In the design process the visual feedback for assemblies, parts, shapes, surfaces, edges, and points is very helpful.

Carlo enjoys working with IRONCAD because the software is easy to understand, it offers him design freedom while remaining logical and intuitive. Carlo employs several intuitive ways to change IronCAD shapes such as: sizebox or shape handles for changing designs directly in 3D or going back to the cross section for more complex changes. He notes that his workflow is improved with the Hide, Suppress and the new Ghost options. And when it comes time to annotate or communicate his ideas, IRONCAD’s 2D and 3D SmartDimensions allows easy arrangement or locking of dimensions between parts or shapes as well as communication of key measurements in the 2D drawing.

Carlos goes on to describe one of his favorite IRONCAD features, “I can go back in the very first shape (to its cross section or to the shape handle), do the changes that are needed and everything will work correctly, even in a negative Boolean operation due to IRONCAD’s smart update technology! I can also manually rearrange part feature hierarchy if needed so that shapes can be correctly affected by shelling or Boolean operations”.

Artists need to be able to model and create in several different methods since there are always several ways to do a job. They especially like to modify their shapes for aesthetic or ergonomic reasons. IRONCAD makes it so easy to accomplish these goals with the TriBall, sizebox and shape handles, SmartDimensions and the many other technologies available in IRONCAD.

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Summary:

• Freedom to design any artistic shape
• Flexible paradigm allows unrestricted design modifications
• Effectively share ideas with built-in collaboration tools
• Automatic update of all related documentation

“It’s easy to create a parts, objects and drawings plus the wide range of import/export formats helps me communicate with the outside world. To connect with my clients, I produce 3D PDF documents of my objects and drawings.

Because working with the software is like playing piano, I develop most of my designs directly in IRONCAD. This freedom has given me the ability to create complex new possibilities and products. IRONCAD has opened new doors to develop extraordinary artwork, design and architecture. Even after 16 years of using IRONCAD, I am still surprised at its amazing creative power!

IronCAD 2014 is the best CAD software ever” – Carlo Borer, Artist.

For more information on Carlo and to see more of his work designed in IRONCAD please visit his website at: www.carloborer.ch

Source: http://www.ironcad.com/index.php/industry/ironcad-customers?id=236

KeyShot For IronCAD – Affordable Realistic Rendering Made Easy

IronCAD Offers Affordable KeyShot Working Direct With Its Product To Customers

Irvine, California and Atlanta, Georgia February 04, 2014 – IronCAD, LLC, the leading provider of design productivity solutions with Luxion, makers of KeyShot® and a leading developer of advanced rendering and lighting technology announced the availability of "KeyShot for IronCAD" to the IronCAD customer community. This offering provides IronCAD customers access to KeyShot's quick, easy, and amazing rendering capabilities that work directly with the IronCAD products at an affordable price.

"KeyShot for IronCAD" enables users to create 3D models quickly and then at a push of a button, generate stunning visuals for communication and collaboration. Using Luxion's LiveLinking™ technology, IronCAD users create new product designs and then work with them directly in KeyShot while maintaining assembly structure and model appearance. During the design process, users can update and make changes from within the IronCAD interface and have these changes automatically reflected in the rendered image. The changed geometry uses previous applied KeyShot materials allowing new images to be created with ease.

"KeyShot is a great application for creating amazing visual representations of 3D models quickly with very little training or expertise in rendering," commented Cary O'Connor, V.P Marketing at IronCAD. "Offering an affordable low cost version of KeyShot to our IronCAD customers was a logical step to provide a wide variety of tools to meet their customers' expectations when communicating concepts, bids, or final marketing collateral," he continued.

"We are very excited about this partnership," says Thomas Teger, VP of Products and Strategy at Luxion. "KeyShot for IronCAD not only gives IronCAD users a powerful toolset for creating amazing images from their designs in minutes, but also gives them access to our ever growing community to get help, share ideas and resources, or simply enjoy the great images other KeyShot users are creating. This new way of integrating and delivering an established rendering solution is fundamentally new. IronCAD are amongst the first to realize and deliver upon this," he continued.

"KeyShot for IronCAD" runs on the recent released IronCAD 2014 Server Patch 1 with all the IronCAD products and offers customers a fully functional 30-day evaluation. Beyond the evaluation, users can buy the full version or continue to use "KeyShot for IronCAD" in a limited version to test concepts and capabilities.

"KeyShot for IronCAD" is available immediately to all IronCAD customers from http://www.ironcad.com/product-updates. Contact IronCAD or your local reseller for details on pricing.

Key Highlights Of "KeyShot For IronCAD":

Easy
You don't have to be a rendering expert to create stunning images of your 3D models. Transfer your data into KeyShot from IronCAD products, drag and drop materials, adjust the lighting, and move the camera. Done. Everything happens right in front of your eyes, all in real-time.

Real-time Raytracing
Whether you are creating 3D renderings or animations, you see everything happen instantly which decreases the time it takes to create photorealistic 3D images.

Instant Real World Lighting
All of the environmental lights inside KeyShot can accurately simulate differences in brightness from a simple LED all the way up to the intensity of the sun and cast shadows accordingly.

Scientifically Accurate Materials
All KeyShot materials are scientifically accurate and have physical properties based on real world materials. This makes setting up realistic materials extremely easy, foolproof and faster than ever.

Importing Data
The KeyShot for IronCAD version allows you to use IronCAD's import capabilities to access data from other applications. Use the standard formats such as IGES, STEP, ACIS and Parasolid as well as a long list of graphical formats or consider the Trans Product to import native file formats such as Solidworks, Inventor, CATIA, Pro/E (CREO), and UG/NX.

About Luxion
Luxion is a leading developer of advanced 3D rendering and lighting technology. KeyShot is the first real-time ray tracing and global illumination program for 3D rendering and animation that uses a physically correct rendering engine certified by the CIE (International Commission on Illumination). Addressing the visualization needs of designers, engineers, marketing professionals, photographers and CG specialists, KeyShot breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images and animations from 3D digital data. Luxion's customer list includes many of the Fortune 1000 product manufacturers and major industrial design companies including Chrysler, Fossil, Microsoft, Tesla, Procter & Gamble, IDEO and SMART Design. Visit www.keyshot.com for more information.

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. Individual components of this solution can be used standalone, complementary within an existing design environment, or can be used together to collaborate effectively throughout the enterprise to extend productivity. 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.