Enhanced KeyShot integration in IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite (DCS) 2015 Product Update #1 supports textures passed from IronCAD to speed up visualization setup. A new option has been added to the catalog entry to enable this behavior to give more power and options with Smart Assembly.

However, the Smart Assembly action needs to apply at the parent level (part/assembly) when other components connect to it. When the hole moves, the attachment point should update. When using IronCAD’s Smart Assembly capability, it is often needed to have attachment points associated with the IntelliShapes for holes, for example. With this update, Intelligent Attachment Points are now associated with features. The latest improvements include support for tolerances, intersection points and provides new grouping abilities to control what information is displayed in a particular viewing orientation. The IronCAD DCS update seeks to improve 3D communication with improved capabilities in 3D Annotations (PMI). Further import improvements include support for JT and SolidEdge formats in the Native Translator Add-on. Additionally, users can use the imported graphical representation in an IronCAD 2D drawing for layout and communication purposes. Once imported into an IronCAD scene, users can select parts or assemblies from the imported data to reconstruct into a solid model to allow modification, improving design workflow and cutting down on memory and storage requirements when using customer data in the design process. Software products from Dassault Systemes, Siemens, and Solidworks can store lightweight graphical representation of models, which IronCAD DCS can directly access. The IronCAD Design Collaboration Suite (DCS) 2015 Product Update #1 imports native files ten times faster by directly importing the graphical model representations.

IronCAD yesterday announced the first product update for its 2015 release, which includes customer-driven quality improvements and some additional design collaboration features.

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