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27 May 2009

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IronCAD Signs New Reseller in the United Kingdom

IronCAD, LLC announced the signing of their latest reseller, Triple8CAD based in Carmarthen, South Wales. Triple8CAD is a company primarily focused on the furniture design and woodworking markets with a secondary focus on the automotive and aerospace markets. The company has over 12 years experience in 3D CAD solutions.

"I've worked with many CAD systems over the years and they definitely have their individual strengths and weaknesses. For the furniture and woodworking industry however, we feel that the 3D capabilities are too restrictive due to their history, parametric, and rules based systems," said Mike Bowen, president of Triple8CAD. "With IRONCAD, there is so much more freedom to design. It is a system which quickly and efficiently enables users to visualize their designs in full 3D. The catalog based drag and drop interface, combined with a flexible history based approach to design which allows a mixture of features and direct editing, is ideally suited to this industry. There is a very short learning curve with IRONCAD and the ease of use allows furniture designers and woodworking professionals the ability to experiment with various ideas in a non-restrictive environment. Our woodworking customers also tell us that the integrated and customizable bill of material work extremely well for woodworking companies, enabling them to easily build their cutting lists."

What further convinced Triple8CAD to become an IRONCAD reseller were the new features that will be available in IRONCAD’s next release, due later this year, IRONCAD Next Generation. IRONCAD Next Generation will be the first 3D CAD application available that offers the freedom of design using an “Innovative Design” mode as well as the ability to build fully parametric, rules based, “Structured Design” parts within the same environment. When designing in Innovative Design mode, the user has complete freedom to experiment with various designs and implement radical design changes regardless of the feature history. However once the users design is complete, they may want to build a more structured, parametric part that includes design intent, design rules, and other parametrics. IRONCAD Next Generation’s “Structured Design” mode gives the user that level of control. Further enhancing IRONCAD’s value to customers will be a fully integrated industry standard 2D design and detailing environment. This environment can be used to detail the user’s 3D parts and assemblies as well as the development of all other required 2D documents. In addition, it will allow the user to load, edit, and save their existing legacy 2D data.

With Triple8CAD now serving the southwest portion of England, IronCAD further builds on its reseller base in throughout the United Kingdom. "I am excited that Triple8CAD has chosen to join our team," said Richard Serna, IronCAD's Director of Channel Sales. "Their experience and expertise in 3D design makes them a valued addition to our reseller network."

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