Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD

How to Change BricsCAD LayerStates at the Click of a Button

Bangalore, India LayerStates are a useful convenience feature for the CAD drafter. The ability to create and restore them quickly is important. There are Lisp-based macros to create, retrieve or delete layer states, but here is one tip that will... Read more →

BricsCAD V14.1.11 - Join Command Improvements

Bangalore, India The JOIN command in BricsCAD has been around since V12. The Release Notes of V 14.1.11, the most recent update as on today, says that this command has been completely re-implemented from scratch. I have not been keenly... Read more →

BricsCAD V14 - The Developer Reference Help

Bangalore, India The Developer Reference Help in BricsCAD V14 has improved dramatically. It is nice to see help topics for all APIs arranged in one single panel inside the CHM file. In earlier versions or BricsCAD, I have seen many... Read more →

The Teigha (TX) Development Environment and BricsCAD

Bangalore, India The Teigha (TX) development platform is perhaps the least know or understood API for BricsCAD. It is not a very popular one, and provided only to maintain compatibility with C++ code written for Teigha-based CAD. The Teigha API... Read more →

PR: Chapoo Releases App for iPad

Cloud-based Project Collaboration Solution Adds Tool for Flexible Document Access while on the Road Ghent, Belgium – December 17, 2013 – Chapoo®, provider of a cloud-based project information and collaboration platform, today announced the immediate availability of the Chapoo App... Read more →

BricsCAD V14 - RunAsLevel (Switching to a Lower License Level)

Bangalore, India BricsCAD V 14.05 introduced a new Settings Preference called RunAsLevel that allows BricsCAD to run in a lower level of license than what was purchased. I was wondering why a commercial end-user would want this feature, but I... Read more →

BricsCAD Communicator updated: Support for Inventor 2014 and Parasolid version 26 http://blog.bricsys.com/2013/12/bricscad-communicator-updated-support.html Read more →

My Daughter Sanjna's eco-Projects Mentioned in 'The Hindu'

Bangalore, India My daughter, Sanjna's projects get a mention in 'The Hindu' newspaper. Here is a link to the new article. This teen is a budding environmentalist Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/rakesh_rao Discover BricsCAD, discover GeoTools-AutoCAD , GeoTools-BricsCAD, CADPower-AutoCAD, CADPower-BricsCAD,... Read more →

Why Lisp Programming is Better in BricsCAD than AutoCAD

Bangalore, India I have done extensive programming in Lisp and have used both AutoCAD and BricsCAD platforms for testing my apps. I find advantages in using BricsCAD for the most part of the Lisp coding & development cycle. I have... Read more →

How To View, Verify and Activate Your BricsCAD Licenses

Bangalore, India Did you know that, as an end-user, you can view and verify your BricsCAD licenses on the Bricsys web-site? A random check I did with BricsCAD customers in India revealed that over 90% of our users did not... Read more →