1. You can import lines,curves,nurbs and nurbs surfaces, solids. Copy past and boolean operators are available.

2. Look at the Learning Center.

3. Yes , calculations can be made for any country in the world. Steel and membrane checks are available for EC3 (EuroCodes) and BS5950 (British Codes).

4. Yes in the first reelase there will be a nice visualization rendering with Shadows and Sun environment. For professional renderings you can export the model to 3d Studio
or Rhino. In future versions rendering will gain more power.

5. NO. This is called nesting. there is no nesting feature at the moment.

6. Both. You can draw inside ixCube lines,circles,nurbs, solids,make extrusions and boolean operators. You can add dimension lines, dimension arcs
Copy,move, rotate,polar array,rectangular array,offset curves,trim,fillet and almost all features of modern CAD systems are available.
You can import DWG,DXF and RhinoCeros 3DM files and convert each layer of the file into a FEM model or into a CAD model and use them as necessary.
Last but not least with RhinoCeros CAD you can directly Copy-Past to and from Rhino into ixCube (ixForten 4000) without the need to save and load cad files.

7. Yes. There is a Wind Generator for EC3 wind loads, French and Indian. You Input wind speed, Cp values, Cd,Ct and the area over where to calculate and the module computes wind loads based on the choosed code. Optionally a Fluid Flow analysis can be performed inside Caedium package ( www.sysmscape.com ) and then you can import Cp values or Pressure values to be input as Loads or Cp values to be used in the above module for wind pressure calculations.

8. We have 3 different packages:

1. Basic = this is for small companies that want only to design and pattern
2. Professional = system for design, production and structural analysis
3. Premium = Professional + all available modules + Premium support

In the price list attached you can see available plugin modules.

9. In europe  We have  nearly 30 companies , more than 350 worldwide.

10. Technical request way a lot. We can get up to 2 -3 per day . Generally they are questions on how to solve a particular building model.

11. Yes. On ixCube until it is in Beta stage we can accept request. These will get implemented if possibile within the tim-frame and do not break the development chain.
if they require more time , the requested features will be put on the to-do-list for next patch release.

12. Well ixCube is in Beta stage. if you want to test and give feed back You are welcome.
The problem is that You need to understand the basics on How it works.
ixCube comes with 2 different Form-Finding tecniques FDM(Force Density) and NFDM( Natural Force Density) and then Optionally with a plugin URS (Update Reference Strategy ):

• FDM Method : works with a net of links as the base FEM model and a Triangle mesh for loads and pattern Generation.
• NFDM and URS : works with triangle meshes both as the base FEM model , for loads and for patterning

We want to be sure that who is going to test the platform has the required knowledge to use it, We can make if necessary a few hours webcasting to let the lcient learn the basics.

13. Our modelling environment has been tailored against FEM generating from advanced Solids and Curves. You can move data from the FEM to CAD and Viceversa
there are potentially no limits.

14. A good i7 Core with 8 GB Ram and very important a very good Graphic Card (NVIDIA we suggest ) with latest OpenGL drivers and at least 2 GB of card memory.

15. Power with less price. if you compare features, quality of the platform, number of features available and divide this against price
anybody that is able to judge with his brain will come up that our system is Unbeatable.

16. Final Patterns can be exported to DXF,DWG,3DM and HPGL for the plotter.

17. We generally make one release each 3 months. For problems that unable users to work we make updates after 2-4 days depending on how much time is needed to fix them.

18. We generally make one release each 3 months. For problems that unable users to work we make updates after 2-4 days depending on how much time is needed to fix them.