Bangalore, India "Every time I start up BricsCAD I am hit with the dialog box to switch my security to high to disable macro's. Then the next dialog box comes up to enable/disable macro's. Is there any way of getting... Read more →
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October 2012
October 26, 2012
October 24, 2012
October 23, 2012
BricsCAD Rebranding - The Whys and Hows
Bangalore, India On October 15, 2012, Bricsys released the English language version of BricsCAD V13 for the Windows® operating system. As detailed during the conference in Amsterdam, this V13 release coincides with the major rebranding effort including a refresh of... Read more →
October 22, 2012
October 21, 2012
BricsCAD V13 - Key Features Summary
Bangalore, India Reproduced from the Bricsys web-site, here is a complete run-down of the BricsCAD V13 New Features. BricsCAD Key features 3D Drawing Assembly modeling Kinematic analysis Bill of materials The Quad tool 2D and 3D constraint solving Design Intent... Read more →
October 10, 2012
October 05, 2012
Winding Up Bricsys 2012 Conference on Day 3
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Day 3 of the conference is a reseller partners only event. A close-knit gathering of about 30+ resellers and Bricsys employees was at the O-Seven in the Passenger Terminal Building overlooking the bay. In this presentation, Alfatech... Read more →
October 04, 2012
The Bricsys Legendary Party - Day 2 @ The Passenger Terminal
Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Day 2 Bricsys Legendary Party, as it has now come to be known, took place today at the Passenger terminal building in Amsterdam. If you are wondering why this place, click on the link and check... Read more →
October 03, 2012
PowerDimensions - Addon software from Daniel Marcotte
Amsterdam, The Netherlands PowerDimensions is an addon tool for BricsCAD that extends the power of standard dimensioning tools. This is still work-in-progress and expected to release sometime in future. Created by Daniel Marcotte, the veteran programmer from Bricsys who is... Read more →
Bricsys Enters Mechanical Design Market
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Brcisys has strengthened its footprints in the mechanical industry with huge emphasis in V13. It was an expected development, given the significant acquisition that Bricsys made last year when they acquired the direct modeling / VDM technologies... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference - Corporate Customer Presentation (Tyco Systems)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tyco Systems is a leading provider of fire protection and security systems. In this presentation Alexander of Tyco Systems explains about his organization, its products, services, markets and other activities. Tyco Systems has created an in-house application... Read more →
Bricscad and the ODA - Arnold Van der Weide
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ODA - Open Design Alliance creates the Teigha libraries which are used in Bricscad and many other .dwg CAD software to read and write drawing files. In this presentation by Arnold Van der Weide, President of ODA,... Read more →
Bricscad V13 - What's New - Presentation by Hans de Backer
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hans de Backer is the Head of Product Development at Bricsys and is on stage now to show off the brand new Bricscad V13. The audience is eagerly waiting to listen and see the new features in... Read more →
Keynote Speaker - Day 2 - Lieven Scheire
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Some really heavy and often humorous stuff early in the morning!! Lieven Scheire kicks off day 2 of conference with his keynote talk about Drake's equation and is trying to explain a complex equation whose aim is... Read more →
The Legendary Bricsys Party @ Heineken Experience
Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Day 1 party at the Heineken Experience kicked off at 7PM and was a memorable experience. The walking tour of the brewery (now converted into a museum) takes you through several floors that offers a glimpse... Read more →
October 02, 2012
The Heineken Experience
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Image courtesy: Wikipedia) As Day 1 of the Bricsys 2012 International Conference comes to an end, the conference lives up to its reputation of entertaining us with interesting after-work parties. Today, we head to the The Heineken... Read more →
Bricscad Changes Skin - The New Logo, The New Look
Amsterdam, The Netherlands The last presentation of the day tells us about the new look and rebranding exercise from Bricsys. BricsCAD now has a new logo. The new CMO (Chief Marketing Office) of Bricsys, Guy Vancollie has already made his... Read more →
Running CAD on Tiny Screens - Ralph Grabowksi
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Continuing last year's pitch, Ralph Grabowski today talks about Running CAD on Tiny Devices. Ralph is a great proponent of CAD running on tiny and portable devices and says the upcoming Mali GPU processors promises a lot... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference - Presentation by Dredging Major Van Oord
The next presentation by Arno of Van Oord: a major Dutch company involved in dredging, underwater surveying and allied activities. In this presentation, he explained how his company integrated their in-house developed software VOSS with BricsCAD. Extensive customization of BricsCAD... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference - Third Party Rendering Solution (Light Works)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Last conference, Clive Davies presented a work-in-progress story about LightWorks Artisan rendering engine that plugs into BricsCAD and works from within to create stunning realistic rendered images. This year, he is back with the completed product. Here... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference - Civil Engineering Solution (Australian Design Company)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Civil Survey Solutions, based in Melbourne, Australia is now presenting their roads design software. Yet another competitor to the popular Civil 3D software from the big boys, this company makes software solutions that address the complete requirements... Read more →
Pictures - Coffee Break Time
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Discover BricsCAD, discover GeoTools-AutoCAD , GeoTools-Bricscad, CADPower-AutoCAD, CADPower-Bricscad, discover TechCenter. Brand new ways to work smarter in CAD!! Read more →
Software Services - LEDAS Presentation
Amsterdam, The Netherlands After a short coffee break, LEDAS has started off with a presentation showcasing their software services skills portfolio and explained a brief history of the company. You may recall the Bricsys acquired the 2d and 3d LGS... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference - Instrumentation & Control Systems (PRODOK by Roesberg)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Next is a presentation from Martin of Roesberg Engineering Software of Germany. Roeberg makes PRODOK software which is used in instrumentation and control systems applications. Roesberg is a familiar name to me. Yokogawa India in Bangalore, uses... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference - Transportation Design Solutions (AutoTrack)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mark Burges from UK-based Savoy Consulting, in the second presenatation of the day, explains about AutoTrack software that is used for comprehensive transportation analysis and studies. AutoTrack solutions cover road, rail and air transport related soutions, is... Read more →
Bricscad - API update and future plans
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Luc de Batselier, CTO of Bricsys and Torsten Moses start off with the first presentation explaining the new API changes in the BricsCAD environment. Visual Studio 2010 is now supported for developing .NET and BRX applications. Luc... Read more →
Bricsys 2012 Conference Starts Today
Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Bricsys 2012 International Conference for developers, partners and key clients starts today at the Beurs Van Berlage in Amsterdam. I am already in Amsterdam to attend and write about the event. Bricsys conferences are held in... Read more →
Bricsys Conference Starts Off in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands The conference got off to a start just now with Erik de Keyser, CEO of Bricsys setting the tone and outlining the agenda for the next two days. Two big announcements - a change in Bricsys logo/rebranding... Read more →