Features
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Drag & Drop modelling

​IronCAD’s drag and drop catalog system is your 3D palette for useful CAD data. Whether it’s parts, features, tools, materials, animations and more, you can drag and drop them in to save them and out to use them at any time. It’s lightning quick and incredibly customisable.

Skip The Mating Process

​Because you can design everything in one file, all your components are already in the right place fitting perfectly. There’s no need to mate components unless you’d like them to have movement, in which case just mate the ones with movement and leave the rest.

Work With DWGs & DXFs

​IronCAD has two built-in drafting packages, one for drawing views in paper space and one for more advanced drafting, similar to AutoCAD. You can work natively with DWGs and DXFs and everything links back to 3D, updating instantly so you never have to redraw something again.

Fast & Easy Sheet Metal

A whole catalog of drag & drop sheet metal tools so you can design quickly and intuitively. Then unfold your part and get bend dimensions and a flat pattern ready to be sent for production.

Patented IntelliShapes

IronCAD’s IntelliShape technology lets you push & pull to precisely adjust complex CAD geometry, which can be customised by simply typing values or even adding complex parameters. You can use our pre-made shapes or build your own to use anytime.

Master Imported Parts

Multiple powerful direct editing tools so you can easily edit imported “dumb solid” CAD models, and even use the patented Triball or shape catalogs on the imported parts.

Turn Off History Dependency

There’s no need to worry about deleting a feature that is above other features in the tree, and you have freedom to re-use CAD data at will without worrying how it was originally made. You can skip traditional history dependency that makes it hard to make changes

Modular Smart Assembly

Our SmartAssembly technology lets you set “magnetic” snap points so modular components automatically position themselves when dragged from a catalog. This can be used by sales-people on site to provide instant custom CAD models with associated manufacturing details and pricing.

Patented Dual Kernels

The only system in the world with patented dual kernel technology providing better import/export capabilities with and providing a backup kernel to solve complex geometry.

Stay In 3D

IronCAD lets you stay in 3D longer, giving you a better overall perspective on your design. There’s far less need to go into 2D sketches, which keeps you designing and working in 3D. You still have the option to go into a 2D sketch whenever you like, but staying in 3D helps you keep your mind on the design.

Award Winning TriBall

The TriBall is one of the most powerful and useful CAD tools in the world. Move, copy, pattern, and link features, parts, and assemblies all in 3D with a few clicks. Get to know the award-winning TriBall and see why it’s one of the most loved tools in the mechanical engineering CAD industry.

FEA & CFD Tools

Analyse your design from inside the IronCAD interface, then make design iterations and reanalyze them in seconds. IronCAD has free integrated FEA & CFD tools which can also be upgraded to more advanced versions when needed. MultiPhysics for IronCAD.

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Design the way you think

IronCAD lets you design the way you interact in the world, intuitively in 3D. Drag & drop shapes, parts, and assemblies from infinitely customizable catalogs, push & pull to make precise changes in seconds, and easily create assemblies in one file. It’s a fundamentally better way to design.
It’s faster to design, easier to learn, and more flexible to modify than traditional 3D CAD software. ​

IronCAD enables you to model fast, and we mean really fast. Get ahead of your competitors and get to market faster with tools that skip many of the repetitive steps in traditional 3D CAD. Put simply, get far more return on investment for every minute you spend using CAD software.​

Make design changes when you want to, not when your software lets you.

Make design changes in seconds, without worrying about how the model was made or if you’ll break the history-tree. The amount of time and money spent making late design changes is simply crazy, IronCAD changes that. IronCAD lets you model with or without history-dependency, so making a change to your model is as simple as doing it. ​

Unified design environment

3D models made in IRONCAD only require one file, no matter how complex. Assembly part data is integrated into a file’s unified design environment, rather than linking to external files. Feature, part, and assembly data can be stored in catalogs which can be pre-built to include frequently used parts and assemblies, freeing designers to be more productive and allowing them to extend the use of 3D data throughout the enterprise.​

     IronCAD has made the design process much more efficient and effective allowing our designers more flexibility and freedom in their work than ever before. We could never be this efficient in Pro/E or other constraint based systems.  Anders Uddman – Ankarsrum Motors

All the Tools You Need to Succeed

IRONCAD 3D modelling software empowers designers to focus on design by giving them an intuitive platform that mirrors how we interact with the physical world. Easily reposition components with the patented TriBall™ visualization tool, resize objects by stretching them with handles, and drag and drop predefined shapes into the design scene for a better, faster design process.

IRONCAD is a desktop 3D and 2D design program that allows users to choose from parametric, direct, or a combination of both modalities on demand in a single environment. This allows designers to freely explore design ideas and create models dynamically on screen without having to pre-plan and map out the concept in advance. With IRONCAD, engineers can use one tool to manage the entire design process from concept to production.

Hundreds of thousands of users around the world.

From multi-billion-dollar corporations to one-person-garages.