Bengaluru, India
V 20.2
Bricsys has released V 20.2.03 of BricsCAD couple of days back, the first numbered semi-major update that appears at the end of two quarters after the V20 global release.
The V20 development life-cycle brings us two interim updates usually, one now around March-April (NN.2) and the next one around June (NN.3). The folks at Bricsys have been working overtime and packed a punch of improvements, fixes and features into this release. BricsCAD updates have always been built the product by a thousand stitches and not necessarily by one or two block-buster features, released once a year. In a typical life-cycle, Bricsys releases about 20+ updates over a 12-month period, and each one fixes or improves upon something that users reported via Support requests or stuff that Bricsys Product management had in their pipe-line - planned and envisaged.
The opening lines in the V 20.2 Release Notes reads thus:
One of the most ambitious features of V 20.2 is the BricsCAD parametric blocks, which is Bricsys answer and an alternative to AutoCAD's dynamic blocks.
The parametric blocks are still in beta, but they work pretty good, already. You may try and test it out but if you want to use it in your live projects, exercise caution. It just needs more testing to smoothen out the bug curve. Please be aware that AutoCAD dynamic blocks are already natively supported and usable in BricsCAD, but they cannot be authored or modified (their definition).
You can read the complete V20.2 Release Notes here but I hand-pick a few which caught my attention and describe them here.
A really tiny improvement but I can understand how much of a frustration of a CAD drafter this feature will help to overcome
For old-timers like me who use the 'previous' selection set often, this is good news: what we believe is "previous" & what BricsCAD thinks is now going to match more accurately.
I noticed this was missing, and would cause pull-down lovers to completely miss these new V20 tools. Not anymore!
I am not sure what subdivision mesh means, but it sounds very cool , and it is a new addition!
This is an ongoing thing - we reported and fixed other similar display issues earlier, and now more improvements in object rendering and zoom.
This is a request from one of our customers, and was filed by me - user feedback impact
PTX is point cloud format - With more of such data in use now, this is indeed a welcome feature
Very useful for those using third-party applications and one of the processes takes a long time to complete: and user wants to work on other drawings
A small step forward towards better naming and identification of BIM components
A nice small convenince to save time
This is great. We need more of multi-threads to not block up core BricsCAD access.
The BEDIT command is most used by many. Any improvements here is clearly very useful.
I was about to report this to Bricsys, glad that they found it and fixed it.
Yes, my CADPower and GeoTools ribbons look better now
My feedback to Bricsys support: This bug affected many of GeoTools-CADPower commands, now fixed
There are dozens of other fixes and improvements in BricsCAD V 20.2. As I have said in the beginning, this release brings significant improvements by a thousand stitches. It may not be a handful of headline grabbing new features but a slew of measures taken within the core program code to improve performance, fix glitches, make small tweaks that are important, all of which contribute to a larger picture called the complete experience of BricsCAD.
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