Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD

File Formats Supported in Bricscad

Bangalore, India We are often asked by prospective users whether specific file formats are supported in Bricscad or not. To any existing Bricscad user, it is a trivial question, but for a first time evaluation user, it is an important... Read more →

Where Does Bricscad Store its Program Settings and User-Specific Data?

Bangalore, India Every software program has a number of operating parameters, program data and user-specific settings that it needs to store somewhere reliably and retrieve again during subsequent runs. Since data to be stored fall under different realms, the locations... Read more →

Bricscad : System Variables & Preference Variables

Bangalore, India All .dwg CAD users know what system variables are. They are accessed using the SETVAR command and if you type SETVAR ?, you can see a long listing of these variables scroll by on your screen. But, did... Read more →

Bricscad : Failure to Add License Key on Windows Vista or Higher

Bangalore, India If you need to do anything with license management on Bricscad in Windows Vista and higher, the first rule is that you need to have Administrator Rights. Sometimes, even that may not be enough. In this blog post,... Read more →

Bricscad User Profiles Manager : The Hows & Whys

Bangalore, India User profiles are used both in AutoCAD and Bricscad to setup a customized drawing environment. In AutoCAD, the user profiles are accessible and controlled using the OPTIONS command and selecting the Profiles tab. In Bricscad, unlike AutoCAD, you... Read more →

Bricscad Support : Program Locks Up in File Open Dialog

Bangalore, India There is an intermittent error Bricscad users have faced while trying to use File -> Open or File -> SaveAs dialog on some computers. This is an ACCESS_VIOLATION (C0000005) error in AcSignCore16.dll resulting in a dumped out crash... Read more →

Bricscad Webinar from Novedge

Bangalore, India For those of you who want to watch a live presentation of Bricscad V12, here is a webinar on Bricscad V12 today, presented by Bricsys guru, Daniel Marcotte, and hosted by Novedge. Unfortunately, it is at 11:30 PM... Read more →

CADPower Tip of the Week : Divide an ELLIPSE Into Equal Parts Polyline

Bangalore, India Current promotion: GeoTools V14-99$ and CADPower-39$. Read more.... It appears that many posts that result in a 'Tip of the Week' come from user requests in Austria (see another here). Vienna-based CADPower user Alexander Schratt asked if we... Read more →

GeoTools / CADPower : What's New in V13

Bangalore, India It has been over 3 months since we released the V13 versions of GeoTools and CADPower. And a number of new features, fixes and improvements have been added since then. Here is a list of them: CADPower: V... Read more →