Design Detail Exchange

Design Create any shape easily using BricsCAD’s powerful 3D Direct Modeler. Free from the limitations of history-based systems, BricsCAD’s Direct Modeler treats native and imported geometry the same way.

“If you’re an engineer who is used to working in 2D, it is much easier to start working in 3D with BricsCAD than with any other tool, because you can just follow the same intuitive pattern.” Hristo Guentchev, Managing Director at Prototyp

Parts & Assembly Design  /  Sheet Metal Design

Create or edit complex hierarchies of parts and subassemblies using the full power of direct modeling
 

Design parts and components Start with a 2D sketch, then extrude, revolve or sweep it to create a 3D solid. You can also use built-in 3D primitives to specify the initial shape of your part. Then add more details using extrusions, fillets, chamfers or Boolean operations. You can also import 3D solids and edit them as native components, using the full power of direct modeling.	Bottom-up and top-down Assembly Design BricsCAD Mechanical users can create complex hierarchies of parts and sub-assemblies using bottom-up or top-down design methods. You can, import assemblies from different CAD systems using Communicator for BricsCAD, including Parametric geometry defined in those assemblies.

 

3D parametrize and constraints The PARAMETRIZE A.I. workflow turns parts into smart, parameter-driven components in seconds. Build constraint systems, drive parts formulatically, build table-driven components and change component parameters in the BricsCAD Properties Panel.	Copy features Model features once and use them many times with powerful tools that copy existing features in 3D solids – such as holes, ribs, pockets.	Hole feature library BricsCAD contains a library of standard hole features – you can easily insert holes into your parts via drag and drop actions.
Parametric Standard Parts BricsCAD Mechanical contains a library of 30,000 standard mechanical components of 800+ different types, all with customizable parameters	Assembly Joints, Kinematic Analysis and Animation Use 3D constraints to assemble joints in an assembly. Remaining degrees of freedom can be used to analyze the kinematics of the mechanism. You can create complex 3D animations controlled by these parametric relationships.	Materials and Mass Properties Assign materials to parts of your assemblies, and BricsCAD will compute weight, center of gravity, main inertia axes, etc.
Bill of Materials Interactively and automatically create a top-level BOM, a parts list, or a hierarchical table from your assemblies. Customize the BOM as you want and link it to your assembly using automatically-created balloon tags.	Animated Exploded Views with Trailing Lines BricsCAD Mechanical can create multi-axis exploded views, automatically disassembling complex assemblies and adding trailing lines, in just one click. You can easily annotate and animate the assemblies for technical manuals and documentation.

Drawing views Automatically create drawing views of your 3D parts and assemblies. Detail views easily with dimensions, annotations, etc. If your 3D model changes, generated drawing views are updated automatically.

Section views You can create section views of 3D part and assemblies. Section planes can be defined by a line drawn on a base view, or you can create more complex sections: half sections, offset sections and aligned section views.	Detail views BricsCAD Mechanical allows you to automatically create detail views from any existing view in your drawing layout.	Fast generation of draft quality drawings Speed drawing layout using fast, draft-quality views. Then, using multi-core CPUs, create precise views in record time. BricsCAD Mechanical is responsive to your inputs during background drawing generation.
Automated Drawing Generation Experience a familiar workflow for the creation of drawing layouts. Change a single part or the entire assembly, and all 2D drawing views are automatically updated.	Bill of Materials Table The BOM panel lets you manage multiple BOM tables in your drawings. You can format each column individually, set up equations, sort tables, and more.	Balloons BricsCAD Mechanical creates associative balloons for each component in an assembly, and manages the display of those tags in all automatically generated 2D view.

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Import data from popular MCAD formats, such as Solidworks®, Inventor®, and Creo.