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. Also, when the CREATESKETCHFEATURE system variable is ON, the created 3D solids are parametrized, and sketch features are visible in the Mechanical Browser panel.

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

Tool/toolset Description
Extrude Create 3D solids from sketches.
Revolve
Loft
Sweep
Thicken
Primitives toolset:
Box, Polysolid, Cylinder, Sphere, Wedge, Pyramid, Cone, and Torus
 Create 3D solids directly, without underlying sketches.
Push/Pull Edit 3D solids (applied to faces and/or edges).
Move
3D Rotate
Copy Faces
Fillet
Chamfer
Shell Edit 3D solids.
Slice
Boolean tools:Union, Subtract, Intersect, and Separate
Scale
3D Mirror
Array
Erase Can be applied to the whole 3D solid, and to a set of its faces forming a feature (for example a fillet or a hole).
Audit 3D Find and fix errors in imported geometry.
Simplify 3D Automatically recognize canonical faces (planar, cylindrical, conical, spherical, toroidal) from spline faces of your 3D solid. This is often needed before applying 3D constraints.
Stitch Stitch touching surfaces and regions, that form a watertight boundary, into a single 3D solid.
Twist, Move Point, Move Edge, and Transform Curve Deform your 3D solid uniformly.
Select toolset Select faces and edges of your 3D solids based on particular geometric and topological criteria, such as length, area and smoothness.
Constraints Add 3D constraints to faces and edges of 3D solids, to align and resize them. Make your 3D part parametric.

Automatically apply geometric 3D constraints, such as parallel, perpendicular, coaxial, and tangent.