Dimensions in the 3D module hide by default and it's hit-or-miss as to which object to activate to show a placed dimension. Dimensioning in the 2D drawing module is too erratic to be usable. The parametric architecture is fractured and disjointed. I started a bug list but then stopped because there were so many. It was quite expensive, considering the lack of maturity in the product. The student licensing program was fantastic before it was turned into a subscription-based model. The complementary IronCAD Compose is fabulous. Being able to reorder objects in the model tree without crashing the model. The interface is far more intuitive than PTC Creo. Drag-and-Drop concepting/design is great. This has turned into a very expensive test drive.
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I bought a student license and then bought a full license to do commercial work. Given that you're charging the same price as Dassault and mimicking their student license program, though, it seems that your Product Managers don't realize how far you have to go. I was really looking forward to supporting an underdog and helping you displace SolidWorks with a superior product. I've since discovered that I can buy a perpetual licenses of SolidWorks FOR THE SAME PRICE and am therefore standardizing on SolidWorks for my engineering firm. It crashed consistently with the large model I loaded, though. I also know that S/W is unstable with models over a certain size (10,000 parts, I think) and was hoping that I/C was more able to handle large models. I bought IronCAD because I didn't realize that Dassault offered a perpetual license for SolidWorks. IronCAD can import a lot of formats by default, but a few exotic ones are not included. If you work alone like me, you rarely need that but occasionally I'll have a file I can't import and have to request an alternate format that I can.
Ironcad 3d design software#
If you share files with other more expensive software users, you may have to purchase additional importers. It doesn't come with all the CAD format importers you need. It has some fantastic tools that no other software has, one of them being what they call the "TriBall." It's a tool for manipulating objects and it's so fast and efficient. Secondly, because it is incredibly capable and I have not found anything I can't do with it. It's as powerful and robust just fair on how it's priced.įirst of all, because it doesn't cost $10K to deploy it. Ironcad provides all the functionality of software that costs 2 and 3 times more yet is as solid and reliable. They seem to forget that there are many more small designers and engineers then there are large firms and we can't throw $10K or more at software anytime we need to.
I can't afford the price that CAD developers get away with in their pricing. IronCAD bridges the crazy expensive CAD software world