Hydnet designs in IRONCAD and can deliver hydraulic components - fast

Hydnet has offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. They design and deliver great hydraulic products for mobile, industrial and marine needs. This can include cartridge valves, valve blocks and hydraulic filters. In order to serve their customers in the best way and offer really good solutions, the right tools are required. Hydnet was looking for a competent and flexible 3D and 2D CAD system. The choice fell on IRONCAD which met their requirements for ease of use and speed. Hydnet uses IRONCAD to produce and develop technical solutions, sales support, calculations and CAD drawings. Through IRONCAD's catalogue system, they quickly and easily build libraries of ready-made, flexible 3D components that can be dragged and dropped into the 3D environment like building with Lego. The result is presented to the customer in 3D quickly and seamlessly. Hydraulic diagrams are produced in IRONCAD's built-in complete 2D solution with associated symbol libraries. All in one solution.

IRONCAD helps ELMAB to develop and produce hydraulic cylinders

ELMAB was founded in 1946 in Dala-Järna. They design and manufacture hydraulic cylinders and gripper claws that are offered to the Swedish and European market. With the long experience they have really good knowledge in hydraulics. They offer both standard and customised cylinders. In order to maintain their high quality' of products and create optimal solutions faster to customers, they needed a better 3D CAD system to design in. Creating custom cylinders in 3D with IRONCAD turned out to be a really good solution. Time spent working in CAD was reduced and the result was a faster pace in the design department. With IRONCAD they now have a more productive 3D CAD tool that solves several different needs within ELMAB and they have been able to answer the high demands of the market by a wide margin. The picture shows a cylinder designed in IRONCAD and rendered in KeyShot.

Industrihydraulik

Industrihydraulik AB is a very successful company that designs complete hydraulic systems, valve blocks and hydraulic power units in IRONCAD. Industrihydraulik is also Sweden's largest supplier of special blocks to industry. Their brand is globally recognized and a large part of their products are exported worldwide. Industrihydraulik is a long-standing IRONCAD user. Hydraulic tanks can be designed using the SheetMetal feature and unfolded sheet metal exported to DXF for laser cutting. Frameworks can be designed easily with bent plate or beam and the profile range in IRONCAD. Many components such as filters, motors, pumps and other purchased components are easily imported into IRONCAD and all can be managed in the same file if desired. Pipes and hose routing are designed with 3D curves and everything can be optimized in 3D CAD to get the best fit instantly.

With IRONCAD , Industrihydraulik has gained a real competitive advantage in the market.

"We have been using IRONCAD for many years now and have benefited enormously from the programme. We can compare with other 3D CAD solutions and found that these are nowhere near the flexibility and speed that IRONCAD offers. We greatly appreciate the fact that we can sit in front of the customer and modify the design directly on site in real time. We can do this without risking all the usual errors that are common in other constraints-based systems. Everyone involved is impressed.

We also design advanced hydraulic blocks based on our own or customer's schemes. We are very satisfied with the program and with Solidmakarnas training and support." Kent Wahlgren, designer, Industrihydraulik AB

The image to the left and at the top of the page shows hydraulic solutions created in IRONCAD and rendered in KeyShot.

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Hydraulic diagram can be created in IRONCAD

An important need for hydraulic (and even pneumatic) companies is to create a diagram that shows how the solution works and how it fits together. IRONCAD solves this with its built-in complete 2D CAD solution. As a user you do not need a separate 2D CAD program to solve this need. The 2D solution in IRONCAD is really powerful and can be used for all 2D needs including schematic drawing. It comes with ready-made libraries of symbols for both hydraulics and pneumatics. These libraries can easily be supplemented with more symbols that the user wants to have quick access to. IRONCAD's 2D solution can of course both open existing, edit and create new files in DWG and DXF 2D formats.

With IRONCAD , companies can hand over really good documentation in both 3D and 2D formats to the customer.

Construct valve blocks in IRONCAD

With IRONCAD, it's easy to create and reuse holes and cartridge valves, for example. You simply drag these out into catalogs on the side of the screen. Save in different catalogs and group these by use. This allows you to easily reuse different types of, for example, threaded holes with associated bores as shown in this case. This technique is suitable in many situations. It can also be return filters, level glasses, nipples. All can create suitable hole patterns automatically in what you drop it on. Like building with lego.

The channels for the oil in a block are easy to see if they are properly designed through the transparency of the block and colouring. Or simply by inverting the block and viewing the channels as "positive" material. You'll have a more fun and efficient workday with IRONCAD.