Solid Modeling

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

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

On the Solid tab is where you can 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 solid can be edited using the one of following tools: Push/Pull, Move, Rotate, Copy Faces, Fillet/Chamfer, which are applied to their faces and/or edges.

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

Erase tool can be applied to the whole 3D solid as well as to a set of its faces forming a feature (such a fillet or a hole) and results in the deletion of the selected 3D solid/feature.

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

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.

Stitch tool allows to stitch disjoint surfaces and regions into one 3D solid, to form a watertight boundary.

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

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.