Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD

A CAD Tutorial : Thickness, Polyline Width, Pen Width and Lineweight

Bangalore, India Current promotion: GeoTools V14 is only 99$ and CADPower is 39$. Read more.... Here is a very basic CAD terminology tutorial. There is often confusion or misunderstanding concerning the DWG terminology of thickness, polyline width, pen width and... Read more →

CAD Data Conversion Tools in GeoTools/CADPower

Bangalore, India One of the important tool categories in GeoTools / CADPower is conversion tools, which allows you to convert CAD data from one format to another. Conversion can be of two kinds - from one file format to another... Read more →

GeoTools & CADPower V 13.06 : Update - (GT_XD2OD)

Bangalore, India V 13.06 of GeoTools/CADPower released yesterday packs a number of useful enhancements, fixes and a completely new command. ** New command added: GT_XD2OD (GeoTools -> AutoCAD Map Tools -> Convert Xdata to Object Data [generic tool]) : The... Read more →

A CAD Tutorial : Visibility Control of Entities Contained in Block Inserts

Bangalore, India How can I control the visibility of entities contained in block inserts? Although this is a simple question for any experienced CAD user, it is nevertheless a concept that new CAD users have to understand and assimilate well... Read more →

Bricscad Tip : Batch Plot Support

Bangalore, India Does Bricscad have support for batch plotting? Bricscad does not include a batch plot utility as such. However a sample VBA project can be found in the ...\API\vba folder of the Bricscad installation folder like C:\Program Files\Bricsys\Bricscad V13\API\VBA\batch_plot_tool.dvb)... Read more →

Bricscad Troubleshooting Tip : How to enable VBA / ACIS Editing in your Bricscad?

Bangalore, India VBA and/or ACIS Editing not installed : How to fix this? During installation of Bricscad, if you choose the Custom install option, the setup program shows a dialog box where additional, optional components can be selected (see below).... Read more →

Bricscad Road-shows in Mumbai-Pune Region - Feedback

Bangalore, India Last week, we made Bricscad presentations in Mumbai and Pune. We visited about a dozen engineering and petro-chemical companies and showed them Bricscad, GeoTools and CADPower. We also visited some of our existing users in the region and... Read more →

Bricscad Presentation at the 12D.com Conference in Brisbane

Bangalore, India Damian Harkin (Bricsys Australia) and Jason Bourhill (Bricsys New Zealand) made a nice presentation of Bricscad at the recently concluded www.12D.com user conference in Brisbane, Australia. If you would like to watch this presentation, here is the link... Read more →

GeoTools & CADPower : What's New Since V10

Bangalore, India Many of our existing users of GeoTools are still on Version 10 and very happy and contented with it. Some of them want to upgrade to the latest V13 platform but do not know what the new features... Read more →

Two New Commands : CP_POLYGETZ and GT_POLYINSVX

Bangalore, India We have added two new commands, one each in GeoTools and CADPower. In many ways, these two are related to each other but the purpose for which they might be put into use warranted that they go into... Read more →

Bricscad: How to try the Platinum Features ( V12 Classic or Pro Customers)

Bangalore, India If you are an existing Bricscad Classic or Pro V12 licensed user, the Bricscad Platinum menu is visible on your user-interface but is grayed out. This post explains how you can test the Platinum features, while you are... Read more →