2D/3D mechanical design tools

Compatible with AutoCAD^® Mechanical 2021 DWG files for seamless interoperability.

Supports ISO, DIN, JIS, and ANSI standards for consistent mechanical drawings.

Create precise dimensions with advanced tools, including snap distance-to-freeze and interactive rescaling.

Add part references, balloons, and generate parts lists for organized and detailed drawings.

Insert standard welding and surface finish symbols into your mechanical drawings.

Add feature control frames, leader notes, edge symbols, and datum IDs for detailed annotations.

Create scaled versions of any drawing section and rescale annotations independently and interactively.

Analyze stress, strain, and deformation in 2D mechanical parts with experimental finite element analysis tools.

BricsCAD Mechanical can create sheet metal components from scratch and allows users to automatically convert solid parts to sheet metal with just one click. This robust approach lets you spend more time evolving your design and less time worrying about redefining sheet metal features.

Sheet metal parts can be edited with the full power and freedom of direct modeling, while the consistency of each feature (flanges, bends, reliefs, junctions) is automatically maintained.

Create un-folded 2D representations that are bi-directionally associated to the 3D sheet metal part. You can also use the unfolding engine to send parts to industry-standard CAM systems.

The flexibility of direct modeling maintains design intent, expressed as sheet metal features – flanges, bends, reliefs, and others.

3D models created in BricsCAD or other CAD systems can be converted to sheet metal automatically, with one click. Features can then be manually refined or changed to quickly achieve your desired form.

Create 2D and 3D unfolded representations to drive CAM systems. The 3D unfolded representation can be edited simultaneously to fix detected conflicts, while keeping the 3D folded part in sync.

Use the full power of 3D constraints, arrays, and automatic parametrization to create different design variants from your sheet metal models.

The hem feature for Sheet Metal allows you to model a hemming metal-working process. BricsCAD supports open hems, teardrops, and rounds with user-adjustable parameters.

BricsCAD Mechanical provides a library of parametric form features – such as louvers, bridges, embosses and others. You can also create complex ribs defined by any curve.

You can create lofted sheet metal parts between two arbitrary 3D curves. BricsCAD Mechanical can recognize lofted bends in imported geometry and automatically decompose them into multiple flanges.

Create flanges in multiple ways: using a base flange, an edge flange or a via a contour tool. You can always change the way adjacent flanges connect – via a bend, a junction or a tab-and-slot connection – to improve manufacturability.

Avoid material conflicts during the bending process by leveraging the library of reliefs in BricsCAD Mechanical. Split parts in a single click, and automatically propagate the split to other corners in your model.