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Engineering and product design professionals
About IronCAD
IronCAD significantly reduces manufacturing barriers and increases engineering productivity with intuitive 3D and 2D solutions for rapid design and seamless collaboration enterprise-wide. Create design iterations, proposals, and production drawings in less time and simply design faster than any other CAD system available today. What makes us different? IronCAD lets you design intuitively in the way you interact in the world, in 3D. With this easier and faster design approach over traditional CAD software, it’s a fundamentally better way to design. IronCAD gives you the speed to invent the future, with time left to watch it unfold. Skip repetitive steps so you can get to market faster, ahead of your competitors, and with far more return on your investment.
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IronCAD
Founded: 2001
United States
www.ironcad.com
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Hole Making
Simulate Cycles
Spiral Output
Structural Engineering
Toolpath Simulation
User Defined Cycles
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Design Export
Document Management
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