Solid Modeling

BricsCAD Mechanical provides a rich toolset for solid modeling, including traditional 3D modeling tools like Extrude or Subtract and intuitive Direct Editing tools like; Push/Pull, Copy Faces and powerful 3D Constraints which allow you to adjust the shape and size of your 3D part.

3D solids tools are available on the Solid ribbon tab of the Mechanical workspace:

On the Solid tab, you find the sketching tools as well as tools to create 3D solids from sketches: Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, and Thicken.

3D solids can be created directly, with no underlying sketches using solid primitives: Box, Cylinder, Cone, Pyramid, Wedge, Sphere, Torus.

All 3D solids can be edited using the following tools: Push/Pull, Move, Rotate, Copy Faces, Fillet/Chamfer, which are applied to their faces and/or edges.

Other editing tools that apply to 3D solids are: Shell, Slice, Boolean operations (Union, Subtract, Intersect, Separate), Scale, Mirror, Array.

The Erase tool can be applied to the whole 3D solid as well as to a set of its faces forming a feature (e.g. a fillet or a hole).

The Audit tool is useful to find and fix errors in imported geometry.

The Simplify tool allows you to automatically recognize canonical faces (planar, cylindrical, conical, spherical, toroidal) from spline faces of your 3D solid, which is often needed before applying 3D constraints.

The Stitch tool allows you to stitch touching surfaces and regions, that form a watertight boundary, into a single 3D solid,

The Deformable modeling toolset allows you to deform your 3D solid uniformly. It includes Twist, Move Point, Move Edge, and Transform Curve.

The Smart Selection tools allow you to select faces and edges of your 3D solids based on particular geometric and topologic criteria - such as length, area and smoothness.

3D Constraints can be added to faces and edges of 3D solids to align and resize them, and will make your 3D part parametric. Many geometric 3D constraints like parallel/perpendicular, coaxial, tangent can be applied automatically using Design Intent recognition.