CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
21 July 2004
Product News
IronCAD Releases Inovate V7
IronCAD announced the release of the latest member of its design solution family, InovateT V7. Inovate V7 is a low cost, easy to use 3D desktop product for creating, modifying, interrogating and communicating 3D designs. This latest release of Inovate offers a set of tools so flexible they can be used standalone or as a component of a larger PLM solution.
Inovate V7 bridges the gap between today's viewer technology and a full blown CAD seat. It is perfectly suited for situations where 3D design concepts have to be verified prior to being committed to a formal detail design process. It allows the quick exploration of 3D design concepts, and the communication of those ideas through photo-realistic images and realistic motion animations as part of the collaborative process.
Some of the key advantages of using Inovate are the following:
Ease-Of-Use
Whether you are working with models, creating a rendering or doing an animation, the same basic concepts of drag and drop, right mouse property access and handles are utilized throughout, making Inovate the easiest and most cost effective 3D design conceptualization tool available.
INOVATE allows casual users to design fast and effectively without concerning themselves with constraints, parametrics and feature trees mandated by today's leading systems.
Design Conceptualization
From concept, through detail design, to unpredictable pre/post production changes, Inovate is the first new modeling architecture that can effectively be used throughout a products entire life cycle. It is a product that allows true Creative Design exploration and verification at each stage of the product development process.
Design Visualization
The integration of powerful, high-end visualization and animation technologies into the core of Inovate makes the entire design process faster, more productive, and easier to understand.
Design Communication
The design visualization, collaboration features and ease-of-use makes Inovate the perfect tool for Engineering, Marketing, Sales and Training to illustrate and communicate product features either through the use of animations or through directly importing 3D design models into marketing and sales brochures. Inovate's versatile use model enables the verification and communication of 3D models beyond the typical design engineering community.
Inovate supports a rich set of data translators (IGES, STEP, ACIS, Parasolid, CATIA, Pro/E, STL, and more.) that allow it to exchange data with all of today's leading CAD systems. Once in Inovate, the user can FULLY edit the model data (not just a subset of recognized features) enabling true upstream and downstream design collaboration.
The benefits of Inovate are best described by users such as Simon Floyd, Principle, Simon Floyd Design Group, who states "The difference with Inovate is that you spend most of your time thinking about your design instead of concerning yourself with how to operate the software. The sheer speed of building models in Inovate is nothing less than STUNNING.." Or Robert Andersson of STIK AB who adds, "Because IronCAD and Inovate are so quick to learn, everyone in the design chain can use them and be productive immediately." And lastly Matthijs Metselaar - Schalkwijk who states, "The advanced visualization functionalities of Inovate are very useful when presenting a design to a customer. With Inovate I can show the customer an exact rendering of the final product. This is crucial when presenting designs to potential customers before prototypes are available."
For a 60 day free trial download and a more complete view of Inovate V7's exciting new features, please visit the IronCAD website at http://www.ironcad.com
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