Advanced Mechanical Design tools
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.
Parts & Assembly 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.
Detailing
The best, most familiar workflow for turning your mechanical designs into production drawings.
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.
Base views
Projected views
Section views
Detail views
BOM table
Balloons
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.
Exchange
Import data from popular MCAD formats, such as Solidworks®, Inventor®, and Creo.
Import & export all types of files with BricsCAD
By default available in BricsCAD:
DWG/DXF/DWT
IFC
Sketchup (import)
ACIS SAT
Images (TIFF, JPEG, etc.)
Communicator for BricsCAD®
A BricsCAD add-on to seamlessly import 3D geometry & PMI data from all major CAD applications.
Import & export other file formats for: