Performance Is Not Optional

Performance is not an option for you. And performance is not optional for your design tools, either. Performance depends on a design tool that works like you do. Your design environment must be responsive even when working with large designs. Your design tool must integrate the features important to your design, development, and verification processes. Last, but not least, your design tool should not weigh you down with unnecessary overhead as you iterate through the design development process.

Ultra-fast Design

Ultra-fast is a design environment that doesn’t slow down your exploration in the early design. Ultra-fast is a design environment that loads your largest projects in a few seconds, not minutes. Ultra-fast is a design environment that is optimized with light-weight data so that projects with 100,000 parts are easy to work with productively. Ultra-fast is a design environment that churns through verification and analysis tasks efficiently.

How can this be true? Simple. For over three decades, iCAD focused on production machinery design.

The demands placed on software for machinery production design are high. While some companies attempt to “make do” by cobbling together multiple tools to create a project workflow from a standard mechanical CAD design toolbox. iCAD customers enjoy one, comprehensive, coherent design environment for the life of the project.

iCAD's focus on technology

iCAD uses optimized CSG technology to reduce database size by 50 times compared to mainstream mechanical CAD applications. This delivers several benefits:

  • CAD loads, saves, and edits the database faster
  • It delivers higher performance on the same workstation than mainstream MCAD applications
  • iCAD handles much larger designs where projects typically have 20,000, 40,000
  • It can even handle projects with several hundred-thousands of parts which are not unusual in production facilities
  • iCAD rapidly calculates CAE functions and verification functions such as interference checking
  • Navigating an entire production facility is as snappy and responsive as the initial conceptual design

iCAD's focus on features

iCAD integrates features that machinery designers need for efficiency. For conceptual design iCAD has a productive, integrated 2D and 3D environment. It is easy and fast 2D drawing to 3D part functions

  • 2D drawings can be used for design layout. 3D can be integrated iteratively
  • Users build 3D models quickly using other shapes & geometry
  • Designers can iterate on the level of detail as needed

For detailed design & design verification, iCAD has features to keep engineers efficient with fast response times even as models become large.

  • Multi-object, smart editing
  • Routing hundreds of cables rapidly
  • PLC programming to control motion
  • Static & dynamic interference checking
  • CAE calculations, eg: stress, weight, center of gravity calculations

iCAD is Ultra-fast CAD for Production Machinery Design

iCAD is a focused solution with the goal of providing a single, integrated design environment for production machinery design.

For more than three decades, iCAD has been optimized and tuned for machinery design. The technology is optimized for performance. The features are optimized for efficient workflows. 

By focusing on the special requirements of production machinery design, iCAD delivers an Ultra-fast CAD solution.

iCAD Ltd

 

iCAD is based in Tokyo, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyushu, Japan.

 

Tokyo, Japan

Nomura-Fudosan, Shibadaimon
BLDG. 2F, 1-9-9,. Shibadaimon,
Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-0012 Japan

Osaka, Japan

Mainichi-intecio Bldg., 11F, 3-4-5,
Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi,
Osaka, 530-0001 Japan

Kyushu iCAD Technical Center

Hakataeki-mae Square BLDG. 6F, 1-21-28,
Hakataeki-mae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi,
Fukuoka, 812-0011 Japan