Either way, intelligence is built into the geometry making it easy for IronCAD to place control handles and parameters. IronCAD also has a bulk drawing tool, so you can quickly generate drawing sheets with predefined views for every part in your model, dramatically speeding up drawing time. Up to this point, I’ve discussed only the creation and editing of geometry native to IronCAD, geometry created either with Intellishapes from the built-in catalog or from sketch-based extrusions. Furthermore, you can create separate or combined technical drawings for every individual part and assembly, all from the one 3D file. IronCAD provides a far better system from the ground up and still gives you the option to use the only beneficial feature of the traditional part system. IronCAD allows you to do this external linking without having to do it for every single part, simply choose the ones you want to save externally and you’re done.
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The only potential positive of the traditional way is that when you have one part in multiple assemblies, you can link it to update in every assembly when a change is made. This also means you don’t have to go through the tedious process of mating all your parts together to make the assembly, everything is already in the right place and fits perfectly first time. You can also still isolate individual parts to work on them, all whilst in the same file. This is also a much more natural way of thinking about your design, you can think of the design as a whole working system. Sizing parts to fit to other components in your design, and making them fit perfectly first time. So you can design in the context of your overall assembly and design. You can build 1 part or 1 million parts in the same file. In IronCAD, part and assembly files are the same. Parts made in a separate file can often not fit correctly the first time, so you have to spend unnecessary time going back and forth changing these parts just to get them to work the way they should have worked from the start.
Designing this way means in most cases you’re not designing within the context of the assembly, so it’s harder to see how your changes affect the overall design, leading to a less effective design process. Even if these parts aren’t moving parts, you’ll likely still need to mate them to lock them down. If they don’t fit you then make changes and mate and align them again. You also have to go through the tedious process of mating and aligning all these parts to assemble your assembly, fitting them into their correct positions in a separate process to when you made them. This means you have to deal with many separate files that can easily be lost or misplaced on a computer and are hard to share. You model all your parts in separate files, then combine them into an assembly at the end with a combination of many different tedious mates and constraints. In traditional 3D CAD, part and assembly files are different.
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