

The first order of business was upgrading IronCAD to Version 4.2, the first release in quite a while.

But that didn't last too long at the end of 2000, Alventive spun off the IronCAD software business and a new company-IronCAD, LLC-was formed. Its corporate focus remained the same until 2000, when the IronCAD software became part of Alventive, a CPC (Collaborative Product Commerce) solution provider. A few years later, along came a company called Visionary Design Systems, which added some mechanical capabilities to TriSpectives and released IronCAD 1.0 in 1998. In 1995, it introduced revolutionary 3D software called TriSpectives. Its roots can be traced back to 1981, when a company named 3D-EYE made its debut. Although IronCAD, LLC, the developers of the new Innovation Suite, was formed early last year, the company actually has been around for many years. Example: "LOAD Button: Click this button to load. Most entries simply describe the labels that are already readily-visible on a given dialogue box. It actually complicates CAD library management. The single-project-file structure isn't particularly valuable (S/W has the Pack-and-Go feature). It was a bit galling to see the heavily-discounted price offers right after I paid a higher price, and I now see that you tricked your new users into buying a soon-to-be-obsolete version.īeing barred from having an account in the forum simply because I chose to purchase a perpetual license and no maintenance plan was quite a slap in the face. Having the file format change right after I purchased the software and NOT BE BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE was almost a death blow to my continuation as an IronCAD user since it prevents me from adding seats without complications or extra expense of upgrading. Not being able to export to sldasm or sldprt with the translator was an unexpected and stunning deficiency considering the price I paid for the Translator. The parametric architecture is fractured and disjointed.ĭimensioning in the 2D drawing module is too erratic to be usable.ĭimensions in the 3D module hide by default and it's hit-or-miss as to which object to activate to show a placed dimension.


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.
