Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD

BricsCAD Gets a Brand New Lisp IDE in V 18.2 Update, Delivers a Clutch of New UX Features

Bengaluru, India V 18.2 Every year, during the life-cycle of the major numbered version, Bricsys release a two or three major updates that introduce new features and delivers on the promise Bricsys would have made during the preceding annual conference... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower Price Revision: 5% Only

Bengaluru, India Starting April 1, 2018 the list price of new licenses of GeoTools and CADPower software will be revised about 5% higher. For upgrades, the price increase is set at around 2.5%. This will most likely coincide with the... Read more →

Convert PDF to a BricsCAD or AutoCAD Drawing: Mainatain Visual Integrity

Bengaluru, India The engineering design community worldwide uses either the .DWG or the .PDF format for sharing their designs with fellow users and customers. .DWG is the de facto standard for drawing data exchange in the engineering design community while... Read more →

When NVIDIA Desktop Manager Brought BricsCAD to its Knees

Bengaluru, India This post is a continuation of my previous post and the support request / AnyDesk interaction with Bricsys and our BricsCAD Platinum user. This customer from Mumbai uses both Solidworks & BricsCAD Platinum and was facing an unpredictable,... Read more →

Spatial Manager: The Best Spatial-GIS for your BricsCAD, and also AutoCAD

Bengaluru, India In many ways, Spatial Manager is a game-changer software, like BricsCAD. Spatial Manager runs on the humble CAD platforms like BricsCAD (and AutoCAD-ZWCAD too) and extends their usefulness by turning them into a spatial data management and GIS-like... Read more →

The Complete List of BricsCAD Shape Videos - English

Bengaluru, India Welcome to BricsCAD Shape Create a Simple Wall Create a simple layout Selecting Elements Selection boxes Detecting boundaries The Quad cursor & Rollover tips Wall connections Drag Push/Pull Extrude Manipulator Using components Windows and doors Create a custom... Read more →

Inside Bricsys: Designing BricsCAD Shape

Ghent, Belgium Inside Bricsys: Designing BricsCAD Shape Guest Post by Lio Linger BricsCAD Shape makes modeling fun. This is how we designed it. Sander Scheiris, VP Marketing Shape was built to make your schematic design workflow more intuitive, without sacrificing... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower V 18.16 & 18.18 Updates: More Geological, More General Tools

Bengaluru, India CADPower V18.16 & V18.18 Updates ** Freeware ** Enhancement: CP_DWGSET (BricsCAD+ -> Support -> Drawing Settings): CP_DWGSET: The Swiss army knife for every BricsCAD user: quick access to common settings The CP_DWGSET is a FREEWARE command for quick... Read more →

Guest Post by Don Strimbu: BricsCAD V18 OS X is available today!

Don Strimbu January 31, 2018 Add comment 2 min read Introducing BricsCAD V18 OS X BricsCAD V18 represents the future of the .dwg format, and now it’s available for the Mac. V18 OS X offers workflows for general design, mechanical... Read more →

Why Does BricsCAD Refuse to Start on Some Computers?

Bengaluru, India At DesignSense, we have the onerous task of supporting thousands of our BricsCAD customers across India (and a few more outside as well, on the basis of a special relationship we share with international users). One of the... Read more →

Five reasons to start Shaping: And Why The Comparison WIth Trimble Sketchup is a Misplaced View

Guest Post by Don Strimbu, VP of Communications at Bricsys Shape Five reasons to start Shaping Don Strimbu January 31, 2018 Add comment 2 min read We’re getting compared to Trimble’s SketchUp a lot. If you head straight for that... Read more →