Constraints based & Direct Modelling in Bricscad V12 (Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD)

Brussels, Belgium

CTO, Luc de Batselier, demonstrated the 2d and 3d direct modeling capabilities in Bricscad V12. The direct modeling capabilities in Bricscad uses the new QUAD cursor menu, which offers a very intuitive, idiot-proof and user-friendly interface that seems to guess what you want to do next. The QUAD menu highlights an edge, face or the entire solid depending on where you move your cursor. Accordingly, options like fillet/chamfer or push-pull operations on faces appear on the screen depending on what is selected.

I am not an MCAD specialist and reporting this as a novice but from what I have seen, it appears to me that these tools make the operation appear extremely simple. You can touch the face and push, pull, fillet or chamfer an edge with ease. You also have the tracking cursor and edit box making its appearance each time a numeric input may be required. So, this allows for both touch-based as well as numeric entry of data.

The Design Intent recognition toolbar provides a number of options to manipulate faces of solids using conditions like parallel faces, perpendicular faces, coaxial faces and the like.

Luc explained that the direct modeling tools make it easy to manipulate and edit solid geometry that have been imported from external systems via SAT files etc.

Some UI images and screen grabs from the presentations: