Step 1 : Create your sheet metal parts

Start from 2D profiles, 3D curves, 3D solids, or imported parts and assemblies. Create complex parts with lofted bends or automatically recognize them in imported geometry.

Create base flanges from 2D profiles

Create lofted bends from 3D curves

Make shells from 3D solids

Import sheet metal parts from other CAD systems

Step 2 : Rework your design

Rework your sheet metal part without limit

Add flanges by pulling edges

Move and rotate flanges

Split and connect flanges

Add corner and bend reliefs

Convert hard edges to bends and junctions

Switch between bends and junctions

Choose type of corner reliefs (rectangular, circular or v-shape)

Delete redundant flanges

Re-thicken and repair sheet metal bodies

Step 3 : Finish your sheet metal model

To prepare your design for manufacturing, sheet metal parts can be unfolded automatically and then exported to 2D .dxf or 3D .osm files for further processing with a variety of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) systems – for nesting, cutting, and bending.

Unfold sheet metal bodies

Export flat patterns

Send 3D models to CAM systems

Quick Design Process

Creating new sheet metal parts or reworking existing ones? BricsCAD is your best choice. It is free of conceptual mistakes of history-based MCAD software. You will never need to restart your design from scratch, because we guarantee maximum flexibility for changing your models by combining the freedom of direct modelling with the power of feature-based design.

BricsCAD Sheet Metal Design

Bricscad is the powerful DWG-alternative CAD platform that enables DWG-based applications to serve the growing markets of GIS, AEC, mechanical CAD, and civil engineering. Published by Belgian based software company Bricsys, BricsCAD is  a cost-effective CAD engine that is fully compatible with VidCAD SQL Engineering suite of products. Initially, VidCAD had been developed exclusively on the AutoCAD platform for almost 25 years.

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