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BricsCAD Mechanical
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Advanced Mechanical Design Tools
BricsCAD Mechanical makes advanced mechanical design accessible. It is intelligent, flexible, affordable and, above all, enables greater design freedom. BricsCAD is built entirely on the industry-standard DWG format with full command, script, macro, and menu compatibility.
BricsCAD’s unique variational 3D modelling approach gives you the freedom to design how you want to, from concept to detail, with whatever level of parametric control you need. Quickly develop complex components on their own, or directly within an assembly.
BricsCAD Mechanical contains all of the features found in BricsCAD Pro.
Part Design Design
Start your design 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. Move on to the details using extrusions, fillets, chamfers, Boolean operations, and edit using dynamic direct modeling. You control as much or as little of the form as you like with parameters
Sheet Metal Design
Not only does BricsCAD Mechanical let you create sheet metal components from scratch, but you can also convert solid parts to sheet metal, automatically, with just one click. This robust approach lets you spend more time evolving your design and less time worrying about redefining sheet metal features.
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.
BricsCAD Third-Party App Store
BricsCAD Pro features access to the BricsCAD App Store, featuring over 400 specialised industry solutions across many disciplines, enabling you to get your work done easier, faster and more accurately.
Point-Cloud Visualisation
BricsCAD uses an improved data representation to speed up the performance of point cloud display, using half the disk space versus the point cloud source files. Point clouds in .ptx, .pts, .las and .rcp formats are pre-processed to our .vrm project file format in the background, on your machine. There is no productivity loss as you can continue working during the caching process.
Civil Engineering Foundation
Civil design capabilities in the BricsCAD platform provide a solid basis for civil engineering, with a set of fundamental but powerful design tools and data connectivity for specialist app developers to create high value workflows for users.
High Performance Graphics Engine
Enjoy smooth zoom and pan operations in drawings containing hundreds of thousands of entities. BricsCAD uses the Redway3D graphics system to deliver great display performance for 3D graphics.
PDF and Big TIFF Underlays
Using a multi-resolution, persistent image cache to display PDF underlays enables super-fast zoom and pan operations. BricsCAD’s raster engine delivers great pan and zoom performance, even with enormous 64-bit BigTIFF files.
What's New in BricsCAD Mechanical
Mechanical Detailing Symbols
Insert, edit, and re-use many new types of mechanical symbols.

Power Dimensions
Add 2D dimensions effortlessly via the new intelligent PowerDim capability.

2D Welding Kit
Easily add weld representations and symbols to 2D fabrication drawings.

3D Welding Kit
Easily add weld beads and symbols to 3D fabrication models.

Editable AutoCAD Mechanical Symbols
Reuse and edit symbols and annotations created in AutoCAD Mechanical.

Expanded BOM Capability
Incorporate non-mechanical items into a BOM, such as BIM objects.

Plus...
- Create multiple 2D drawing views two to three times faster.
- Define components and build assemblies even more flexibly with improved Mechanical Blocks.
- Generate BOMs from assemblies easier and faster.
- Manage designs more effectively with the enhanced Mechanical Browser experience.
- Annotation and symbol creation commands, properties, and dialogs mirror those in AutoCAD Mechanical.
- Connect external apps with BOM tables
Balloons
BricsCAD Mechanical creates associative balloons for each component in an assembly, and manages the display of those tags in all automatically generated 2D views.
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.
Details Views
BricsCAD Mechanical allows you to automatically create detail views from any existing view in your drawing layout.
Section Views
You can create section views of 3D parts 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.
Automatic Drawing Update
Drawing views remain associated with the 3D model. Change a single part, subassembly, or the whole assembly, and all 2D drawing views are automatically updated, allowing fast design iterations and changes.
Fast Draft Generation
Speed up drawing layout using fast, draft-quality views. Then, using multi-core CPUs to create precise views in record time. BricsCAD Mechanical is responsive to your inputs during background drawing generation.
BricsCAD Licensing Types
Perpetual
Buy your chosen version of BricsCAD, and the licence is yours to keep forever. Pair with BricsCAD Maintenance to gain access to updates, support, and more.
Subscription
BricsCAD subscription plans offer users an annual, all-in-one package that gives them access to both the BricsCAD platform and all benefits of BricsCAD Maintenance. Pay a single annual fee and enjoy the best BricsCAD has to offer.
BricsCAD Maintenance
BricsCAD Maintenance is a cost-effective way to get the most out of your perpetual licenses. With just a small annual fee in addition to your one-time perpetual license cost, BricsCAD Maintenance will give you unlimited access to industry leading Priority Support, exciting product updates and major release versions.
An active maintenance agreement provides users with several added benefits including access to all major and minor updates, priority developer support response, access to proprietary plugins for ProjectWise and Vault, and much more.
If you wish to continue with these benefits, BricsCAD Maintenance can be renewed annually.
BricsCAD Communicator
BricsCAD supports lots of common filetypes by default, including DWG, DXF, DWT, ACIS SAT, PDF, SketchUp, and image files. Communicator for BricsCAD seamlessly imports even more geometry & PMI data from all major CAD applications. Communicator runs on all editions of BricsCAD except for BricsCAD Shape and BricsCAD Lite.
With Communicator on Windows, import ACIS, Autodesk Inventor, CATIA v4, CATIA v5/v6, Creo Elements / Pro Engineer, IGES, NX, Parasolid, Siemens, SolidWorks, STEP, VDA-FS, XCGM, Solid Edge, and STL.
With Communicator on Windows, export 3D PDF, ACIS, CATIA v4, CATIA v5, IGES, STEP, VDA-FS, and XCGM.
Brand | Bricsys |
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Delivery Type | Digital Delivery By Email |
Processing Time | 1 - 4 (Business) Hours |
Operating System
- Windows 10, 11 (x64)
- Mac OSX 10.15 or higher
- Ubuntu 18.04 or higher
- openSUSE later than April 2018
- Fedora later than April 2018
Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Intel Core i5, AMD Ryzen 5 or higher
- 8 GB RAM
- 1 GB for program files + 1 GB free space
- 1920 x 1080 with True Color
Recommended Hardware
- Fast CPU with 4 physical cores and high STR (Single Thread performance Rating) score
- Fast SSD primary drive combined with a fast SATA as secondary drive
- 16 GB or more RAM