IronCAD likely presents the opportunity to significantly increase efficiency and therefore profitability of your company. IronCAD also has a bulk drawing tool, so you can very quickly generate drawing sheets with predefined views for every part in your model, drmatically speeding up drawing time. 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 if 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.