Product Overview

ICEM DDN
Your productivity partner for 3-D design through detailing and manufacturing

ICEM DDN is a professional 3D CAD/CAM system covering all applications, from 2D design and drafting to complex surface and solid modelling, in an open systems architecture. Incorporating graphic functions and processes for computer-aided product development, ICEM DDN is designed to be used by technical drafters, designers, and engineers.

Thanks to ICEM DDN's modular structure, you only have to select those parts of the program actually required for your work. Plus, the built-in database allows simultaneous access to all data as one of the basic requirements for any Simultaneous Engineering solution.

ICEM DDN is an interactive system, offering a common foundation for the entire product development cycle — from the first conceptual design through detailing and documentation to the preparation of NC manufacturing data. The right combination of the various building blocks provides the optimum, tailor-made solution for every design, analysis, or manufacturing job.

If you use a modern CAD/CAM system for your product development, its efficiency is widely determined by the interplay of several components. On the one hand, the system must have a comprehensive set of functions and features which can be configured to your specific requirements, so that you can accomplish even the most sophisticated tasks. On the other hand, the system must be flexible and include modules which can be integrated into your existing engineering environment, to provide the most efficient and cost effective use of the system.

ICEM DDN — More than Just a Design System
The true strengths of ICEM DDN are its comprehensive functionality and its flexibility. It is no wonder, therefore, that at many customer sites ICEM DDN looks completely different than the originally shipped software. The modular system architecture, organized into individual functional components, provides a high degree of flexibility. Our customers appreciate the easily definable user interface (programming knowledge not required), as well as GPL, a powerful parametric graphical programming language. These tools allow you to set up your own specific applications or special functions in very little time, and thus provide opportunities for a decisive competitive advantage.

With the widespread use of CAD/CAM systems on multiple independent workstations, an all-embracing and continuous data management system soon becomes a must for ongoing operational efficiency. With its ORGA modules, ICEM DDN offers you a neutral PDM interface or, if you prefer, a seamless integration into Metaphase via an easy-to-use part classification scheme.

Open System — a Decisive Criterion
ICEM DDN (Design Drafting Numerical Control) combines these components — comprehensiveness, openness, flexibility, interoperability — along with a simple yet powerful user interface to provide you with a modern CAD/CAM software package which has been tailored exactly to your requirements.

The result of continuous, cooperative development with users from the most varied application areas, ICEM DDN is an open system which is used for product development worldwide by over 1000 companies in a wide range of different industries. In particular, the ease of system customization for individual and company-specific processes — not the other way around — is one of the main reasons why ICEM DDN is used throughout a wide variety of departments.

Flexible Design Work
ICEM DDN provides you the flexibility to o