AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, BricsCAD, Inventor, Revit, SolidWorks, MicroStation, Pro/E, SketchUp, 3ds Max, is a small sampling of CAD software and engineering related applications you can easily record time. BricsCAD and ARES Commander (pronounced: Ah-Rez) are similar in that they both perform like AutoCAD and both use Open DWG as their native file formats so they’re 100% compatible with AutoCAD files. BricsCAD has more 3D tools and more 3rd party add-on applications, whilst ARES Commander has better file sharing and drawing communication tools. ARES also runs on more operating systems including.
Revit is from CAD developer, Autodesk, and was created with MEP engineers and architects in mind. The software excels in MEP fabrication detailing and allows users to create whichever MEP system they need and later on integrate it with the building design. Autodesk BIM 360. BIM 360 is a construction management and project delivery. BricsCAD BIM is a powerful architectural modeler that uses.dwg and supports Revit IFC import/export & SketchUp import. The AutoCAD to BricsCAD Migration Assistance Tools are a set of FREEWARE tools hosted by CADPower and provides over a dozen context sensitive righ-click mouse menu customizations, a bunch of frequently asked Express tools and an array of system and support functions that every new BricsCAD user finds it.
BricsCAD is a software application for computer-aided design (CAD), developed by Bricsys nv.
The BricsCAD software, available for the Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems, is available in several editions. BricsCAD is in many ways similar to AutoCAD. The DWG file format is used just as in AutoCAD.
JTB World offer apps and programming services for BricsCAD.
Some apps for BricsCAD by JTB World:
- DWG Columns for Explorer- freeware version available
- JTB OffsetInXref - better offset for BricsCAD
- JTB FlexReport - license monitoring of BricsCAD license usage
Useful links:
BricsCAD implements many AutoCAD Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). In general, BricsCAD provides a nearly identical subset of AutoCAD-equivalent function names. In the case of non-compiled AutoCAD applications (e.g. VBA, LISP, Diesel and DCL), these programs can be loaded and executed directly in BricsCAD. Specifically regarding LISP routines, BricsCAD supports AutoCAD Vl, Vlr, Vla and Vlax functions. Bricsys also supports developers who wish to use LISP encryption, but BricsCAD cannot read AutoCAD FAS or VLX (compiled LISP) files.
Most compiled application programs developed for AutoCAD's Advanced Runtime eXtension (ObjectARX) facility require only a recompilation with the BricsCAD Runtime eXtension (BRX) libraries. BRX is source code-compatible with AutoCAD's ARX, with a few exceptions.
BricsCAD LISP Advanced Development Environment aka BLADE is so much better than AutoCAD's VLIDE.
Some history: The company was founded in 2002 by Erik de Keyser. In 2011 Bricsys acquired the intellectual property rights from Ledas for constraints-based parametric design tools, permitting the development of applications in the areas of direct modeling and assembly design. Bricsys is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. Bricsys is a founding member of the Open Design Alliance, and joined the BuildingSMART International consortium in December of 2016.
In 2018, Bricsys nv was acquired in full by Hexagon AB of Sweden.
@Michael Mayer said:
No clue if Meshes will slow down Bricscad 3D display
That's the essence, or one of the essentials, of Point Cloud enablement - algorithms to make display rotation etc go just as fast as with a relatively 'light' vector model, when meshes and point clouds are usually extremely 'heavy'.
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Don't know how pure-mesh based 3D modellers do it, but un-enabled CAD (like present Brics) simply stalls, however hot the graphics card.
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I have an ancient copy of PointTools, which rotates large point clouds splendidly, with decimation (temporary drastic simplification) of the image while rotation is happening, and re-appearance of the full image when rotation stops. Bentley bought PointTools, which is now their Point Cloud engine - but rotation is not nearly as satisfactory as implimented in Microstation - 'only partial implimentation' apparently - don't know why.
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I understand that decimation is done by creating ten or so different LoD versions of the model, which are deployed as necessary depending on how challenged the graphics card feels. Such decimation may be an essential part of VR, while the image is moving - maybe decimation cleverness within some VR software is that what we're seeing in this video
from Brics Conference 2017?
Is this the fluency, with in this case a 70GB model incl Point Clouds/laser scans, that we'll be seeing on our own computer screens? As Erik says, this is showing VR from a company that Bricsys may well be buying, and I think that co was named during the Conference.