CAD platform eliminates geometry translations

Bricsys NV has introduced the BricsCAD V15 Platinum platform. With this product, there is no need to rework a 3-D CAD sheet metal design into two separate parts. Instead, the user cuts the panel in two and adjusts the link elements for the assembly, all directly on the original design file. A quick correction that can be made entirely in the platform in less than 5 min. can save hours of rework, the company states.

This single platform can be used to import existing or direct model 3-D geometry and can generate the sheet metal models with automatic recognition of flanges and reliefs and automatic detection of boundary regions. It has an advanced unfolding algorithm for optimized sheet nesting, without the need for geometry translations.

According to the manufacturer, model optimization and flattening using the platform’s direct modeling approach is 10 times faster than using traditional features-based 3-D CAD post-processing. The productivity gain increases exponentially with geometrically more complex parts.

The direct modeling technology provides the functionality required to model a design in 3-D and unfold it, in addition to gathering internal or client files. A model that cannot be unfolded can be transformed into one or several feasible and foldable parts in a few mouse clicks applied to the original 3-D model without any new capture. This eliminates the risk of introducing new errors by entirely reworking the geometry.