IRONCAD 2020: Designing your Vision and Shaping it for Reality
IRONCAD 2020 will help you take your vision and transform them into market-ready products faster than ever. IRONCAD 2020 contains many exciting improvements and new capabilities that help you design, present and communicate your ideas faster and easier.
For this year's release, our main focus was on what was most important to customers based on feedback: improving the ICD (IronCAD Drawing Environment) to increase productivity. With this in mind, our goal was to improve the 3D to 2D detailing process to increase the design to manufacturing timing with better performance, improved commands, better accessibility to common commands, and faster drawing creation with our automated bulk view creation tool.
Additional key areas of improvement that were focused on were commonly asked for usability items, overall performance in interaction/save/load/import, and continued improvements on key functionality that sets IronCAD apart in the design process.
For this year's release, our main focus was on what was most important to customers based on feedback: improving the ICD (IronCAD Drawing Environment) to increase productivity. With this in mind, our goal was to improve the 3D to 2D detailing process to increase the design to manufacturing timing with better performance, improved commands, better accessibility to common commands, and faster drawing creation with our automated bulk view creation tool.
Additional key areas of improvement that were focused on were commonly asked for usability items, overall performance in interaction/save/load/import, and continued improvements on key functionality that sets IronCAD apart in the design process.
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Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to learn?
You should start being productive within a day or two but you will get quicker with more use. As our IronCAD training course is completely free, you can work through it at your own pace. IronCAD is a lot easier to learn than conventional CAD systems, but being a very powerful program still of course requires some learning. Our training course is self-paced so you can do it in your own time. You can access it here: Training page.
Comparing ironcad to other 3D CAD?
When comparing IronCAD to other software, price should be the last thing on the list. Ignore the fact that IronCAD is usually significantly cheaper than the alternatives. IronCAD does so many things better than traditional software, that using IronCAD compared to something else will often save you far more than the cost of the software. But if it is not a good fit for your organisation, then you at least know what you are paying for.
For a quick comparison against SolidWorks have a look here.
For a quick comparison against SolidWorks have a look here.
Increased Efficiency
IronCAD works much faster than traditional CAD software, from the start it should take you less time to make almost anything. This time-saving increases even more when you want to make design changes later, which is where IronCAD shows more of its speed and flexibility. Overall, the time you save using IronCAD compared to something else can often pay for the software many times over. Think of how much time you’ll be using CAD software, then multiply that by your or your employees’ rates. It doesn’t take long for the savings to be far more important than any start-up cost.
Learning Time
IronCAD is one of the easiest MCAD systems to learn in the world. As you may have already seen from our customers, training new employees to work in IronCAD can be extremely fast. The same goes for training yourself. Every day in training is a day not working, IronCAD lets you and your team get confident and productive fast. Saving you time and money.
Permanent License Options
We like to offer multiple licensing options so you have flexibility, and this includes permanent licenses. This means if your business changes focus for a while, you’ll still have easy access to open and customise any of your CAD models. It’s your valuable intellectual property, and we think you should have proper access to it. If you decide some of our new features look good, you still have the option to upgrade your license or skip an upgrade.
What about maintenance costs? Am I locked in?
No. IronCAD licenses (excluding rental) are permanent licenses with nothing more to pay. Every year we release new features to IronCAD which you have the option of upgrading to, but this is not compulsory at all. Generally we hope our new features will earn you more money than they cost you to upgrade. If this isn’t the case, we are happy for you to skip upgrading until the new features are worth it for your business.
Is this a yearly fee?
IronCAD licences are perpetual licences. There are no compulsory annual charges. Users can either upgrade as they need or have a maintenance option that will give them all the upgrades that are released during the term, as well as an additional home use licence of the software.
For multiple licences, there is the option for a network version.
For multiple licences, there is the option for a network version.
- Non-expiring license
- Lower long-term cost
- Flexible access to upgrade
- Less internet dependency and stronger data security