--- description: Learn more about IronCAD price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Ireland. Read verified software reviews and discover tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: IronCAD Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra Ireland 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Engineering CAD Software](/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) > [IronCAD](/software/158181/ironcad-design-collaboration-suite) # IronCAD Canonical: https://www.capterra.ie/software/158181/ironcad-design-collaboration-suite Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ie/software/158181/ironcad-design-collaboration-suite?page=2) > IronCAD is an intuitive 3D and 2D design solution that increases productivity, and facilitates collaboration throughout the enterprise. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 60 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses IronCAD? Custom, low-volume, special purpose machinery manufacturers, including conveyors, factory automation, racking systems and producers of fasteners, fixtures, jigs, pipes, shafts, valves, tools. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 60 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: IronCAD - **Location**: Atlanta, US - **Founded**: 2001 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$1.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - 2D Drawing - 3D Imaging - Animation - Annotations - CAD Tools - Collaboration Tools - Component Library - Data Import/Export - Design Analysis - Design Management - Document Management - Drag & Drop - Manufacturing Design Data - Presentation Tools ## Support Options - Chat ## Category - [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) ## Related Categories - [Engineering CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/30556/engineering-cad/software) - [3D CAD Software](https://www.capterra.ie/directory/31236/3d-cad/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Alibre Design](https://www.capterra.ie/software/172312/alibre-design) — 4.7/5 (182 reviews) ## Reviews ### "IronCAD has easy-to-use tools that allow a high production in the development of projects for you\!\!\!" — 4.0/5 > **sofia** | *19 April 2018* | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The dual programming nature of this software allows working with solids created in both ACIS format and Parasolid format, exchanging and / or using any of them indiscriminately, which allows it to handle a large number of files imported and exported from different CAD programs of the market > > **Cons**: IronCAD has many features that will help you design complex models quickly and efficiently. excellent software ----- ### "Innovative Magnetic Technologies Review" — 4.0/5 > **Peter** | *16 July 2020* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: The decision to move to 3d was made because Ironcad was a relatively low cost alternative to the higher cost competitors. I also was drawn to the intuitive drag and drop design philosophy and the flexibility to create assembly down type designs in one model. Also the Caxa integration was very welcome as our company used Autocadd for all its drawings and having Caxa gave us the ability to continue to utilize our existing drawing library along side the new 3d drawings. Without the Caxa portion of the program I doubt we would have used the program for long, and gone back to manual 2d for our products. > > **Cons**: In the beginning we had a lot of issues with creating drawings which were equivalent in look and feel with that which we had been able to create in 2d Autocadd. The \#1 biggest issue was the lack of any CAXA instructional data. The amount of information provided by the company in the form of a user guide is laughable at best. If I did not already have years of experience with Autocadd and CAXA's similarity to Autocadd I doubt i would have been able to get the program to make any sense at all. The only thing that makes Caxa usable is the forums where questions can be asked. > > To date i am fairly happy with Ironcad. We had to purchase the ironpro mechanical to really make the program beneficial to us. There are many tools with Ironpro that we use daily which have made our job of creating products more efficient. Unfortunately i do not have any other 3D modelling program experience to reference against Ironcad. ----- ### "I can not understand" — 3.0/5 > **Stefan** | *27 July 2020* | Machinery | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is very easy to design a new machinery in the 3D-scene. It is a great benefit that you can design a hole assy and afterwards select how you like to have your sumassy´s and details. > > **Cons**: The 2D-interface and funconality making an ICD-file is a totalt disaster. It is depending on the grafic´s, time for update of scene´s is too long, sections is really bad, for example you have to fill in data for welding symbols each time you activate the function instead of getting last data as default, and so on. We have since 1998 reported a lot of ideas´s how to make it better, but unfortunatly we can not see aallmost no improvement > > We have been using Ironcad since 1998 or 1999. We are designing our own machineries using Ironcad, but we are also working as consultants designing machineries for some of our customers using both Solidworks and Inventor, so we have a good experience of the differences. ----- ### "Almost Perfect" — 4.0/5 > **Graham** | *16 July 2020* | Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Most of the features work really well and are intuitive. The speed of being able to create a new design is impressive. The triball is the best tool ever and saves hours of work when positioning parts. Generally it is a solid piece of software and very rarely crashes. > > **Cons**: It does not work at all well with a high resolution display(3840 x 2160) some of the menu items are so small you cannot read them and in other areas the items overlap. After every new release there are some errors and these are not always fixed before the next version is released. Some of the less used features are feeling a bit dated like the visualization mode. > > I design mechanical engineering items for serval customers and I can sit with an engineer and create their new design in real time. ----- ### "IronCAD - Powerful easy to Use CAD" — 4.0/5 > **Nick** | *16 July 2020* | Airlines/Aviation | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: IronCAD has proven to be an essential tool in our company for the last 15years. Unlike similar software, its free design approach allows you to get on with the business of producing designs rather than worrying about model integrity. It has become significantly more powerful as the years go by. > > **Cons**: There are many basic features lacking, (select by colour, divide a line in equal segments, solve a structural part on dimension or area, mechanism mode trace a 2d path, intersection of 3d parts with your current cross section, decent configuration control date created user etc). Confusion about which 2d drawing environment to choose, i.e. ICD or CAXA Smartmarkup features are an odd addition. > > Easy to use CAD ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ie/software/158181/ironcad-design-collaboration-suite?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ie/software/158181/ironcad-design-collaboration-suite) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ko | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | ----- ## Structured Data