Smart Ways to work with .dwg CAD

AEC Magazine and Ralph Grabowksi Write About Revit Users Angst against Anagnost's Autodesk

Bengaluru, India The current signatories in the letter In what may perhaps be the most blunt and direct criticism aimed at the top guns of Autodesk, a clutch of leading global architectural firms have shot off a missive to the... Read more →

Drawing a CAM Profile (Knife Edge Follower Diagram) and Displacement Diagram in AutoCAD-BricsCAD

Bengaluru, India In Version 20.05 of CADPower, we introduced the function to draw a CAM Profile. The addition of this feature empowers CADPower with a productivity tool that will make it appealing to the manufacturing industry. A cam is a... Read more →

The Pied Piper of Bricsys Draws a Beeline of Autodeskers to His Fold

Bengaluru, India The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a story we grew up reading as children, in which the titular character leads an army of rats that had infested a city, and thus magically cleans the city of its problem.... Read more →

Steve Johnson Blogs : Why every AutoCAD CAD Manager should have a copy of BricsCAD – part 2, 3D Operations

Bengaluru, India In these two posts, I am carrying a reproduction of the posts from Steve Johnson's blog CAD Nauseam, with full permissions and credits. Link to the post on Steve's blog The reason I have decided to reproduce this... Read more →

Steve Johnson Blogs : Why every AutoCAD CAD Manager should have a copy of BricsCAD – part 1, fixing drawings

Bengaluru, India In these two posts, I am carrying a reproduction of the posts from Steve Johnson's blog CAD Nauseam, with full permissions and credits. Link to the post on Steve's blog The reason I have decided to reproduce this... Read more →

Heidi Hewett Jumps the Fence & Bricsys Wins the Trusted DWG Vote

Bengaluru, India Last week has been an eventful one for the .dwg CAD world. Autodesk veteran of 26 years, Heidi Hewett jumped fence and joined Bricsys in a move that took many in the industry by pleasant surprise: not an... Read more →

Bricsys Welcomes Heidi Hewett as Its User Success Manager

April 3, 2018 has been a red-letter day for Bricsys and all of us in the partner ecosystem. Bricsys announced today that Heidi Hewett, a long term veteran at Autodesk and one of its well-known faces has joined Bricsys as... Read more →

Develop in BricsCAD, Release on Multiple platforms: Become An Authorized BricsCAD Developer

Bengaluru, India Here is a call to every CAD development company in India working on .dwg software development. If you have developed for AutoCAD in the past, we invite you to consider developing the same on BricsCAD first, test it,... 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 →

The Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: And How It Screws up Toolbar Move in BricsCAD

Bengaluru, India Dragging the DrawOrder Toolbar in BricsCAD produced this special effect, thanks to the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Last week, many of us who are Windows 10 users would have received a software update message informing of a... Read more →

Spatial Manager 4.1 Update, Now compatible with BricsCAD V18

In my last post, I introduced Spatial Manager 4.0, a light-weight GIS data processing engine that can replace your AutoCAD Map and be a compelling must-have solution that can extend your CAD with w lot of imagery and other spatial... Read more →

Spatial manager 4.0 with AutoCAD, BricsCAD & ZWCAD: An AutoCAD Map Alternative

Bengaluru, India In many ways, Spatial manager 4.0 is the REAL alternative to AutoCAD Map that the world has been waiting for! There are many options for .dwg CAD software, but very few choices exists for the AutoCAD Map user... Read more →

Bloated .dwg Files & Corrupted Databases: How to Deal with Excess Baggage and Unwanted Weight!

Bengaluru, India Accept this reality! The longer you use a dwg file in your CAD software, it has a high chance of getting bloated in size or suffer from other kinds of problems & errors. The problem with drawing files... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower V18 is Shipping Now! (V 18.01 update)

Bengaluru, India V18 starts with a big leap in geological and mining tools It is that time of the year when, many years back, we used to wait eagerly for the next numbered major release of AutoCAD software! We still... Read more →

DesignSense to Represent AddoBAR ReBar Detailing Software in India

Bengaluru, India DesignSense Software Technologies is pleased to sign up as a solutions and sales partner for AddoBAR software, which is one of the new generation rebar detailing software for AutoCAD & BricsCAD. AddoBAR is the next generation platform for... Read more →

DesignSense to Represent Spatial Manager Software in India

Bengaluru, India DesignSense Software Technologies is pleased to sign up as a solutions and sales partner for Spatial Manager software, a very useful and productive yet lightweight tool to handle all your spatial data formats. Spatial Manager Desktop™ is a... Read more →

CADPower Develops a New Skin for BricsCAD Users - Presenting the BricsCAD+ Interface

Bengaluru, India FREE 30 day trial. Watch CADPower & GeoTools in action here BricsCAD is 100% compatible with AutoCAD but that does not mean it is an identical copy to AutoCAD. And this is for good reason. Any responsible company... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower V 17.07 Update (More Mining Tools, Sheet-Cutting, Object Data & More)

Bengaluru, India CADPower V 17.07 Update ** Enhanced command CP_DWGBROWSER (CADPower -> Miscellaneous -> File Management -> DWG Browser, with thumbnail previews): The CP_DWGBROWSER command has been enhanced with a few hooks to easily link up your symbol libraries and... Read more →

Calling All Fabrication Engineers, Designers & Artists: See How CADPower Can Help You

Bengaluru, India A quick Google search defines fabrication as the process of cutting materials to the desired size and assembling them together using any one of the manufacturing or artistic procedures. We generally associate fabrication with a process that happens... Read more →

Learn How to Create and Maintain Dynamic Blocks in AutoCAD, and use them in BricsCAD

Bengaluru, India Here is something different! I want to talk about dynamic blocks and how .dwg CAD users can move up the value chain by understanding how to use them. My observation is that less than 1% of .dwg CAD... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower V 16.19 Update

Bengaluru, India CADPower V 16.19 Update Enhanced command: CP_POLYAREACREATE (CADPower -> Draw -> Rule-Based -> Draw closed polylines to an exact area): We introduced the CP_POLYAREACREATE command in V 16.14. Significant improvements have been made in this command following user... Read more →

Don't Under-Estimate The Power Of The .dwg Platform

Hong Kong, ROC The .dwg file format was introduced to the world by Autodesk in 1982 as the native file format of its AutoCAD software. For the next 20+ years, millions of .dwg data was created by the hugely successful... Read more →

DesignSense Announces Micro-Verticals Teams for Focussed Industry Solutions

Bengaluru, India DesignSense Software Technologies has been an all-India distributor for BricsCAD since 2014. Right from the beginning, our vision has been to provide solutions (and not ready-made products) to the .dwg community. We chose BricsCAD as the CAD platform... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower V16 Released

Benglauru, India The sixteenth edition of GeoTools & CADPower is now shipping and available for download on our website. The V16 upgrade of GeoTools & CADPower is FREE for all new and upgrade purchases of the V15 version made on... Read more →

EdgeWorks & DesignSense Showcase BRICSCAD @ ConcreteShow India 2015

Mumbai / Bengaluru, India Pan-India BricsCAD distributor, DesignSense Software Technologies and Mumbai-based reseller partner, EdgeWorks are pleased to announce their participation in India's leading construction and AEC trade-show, ConcreteShow India in Mumbai from May 7th to 9th, 2015. The event... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower Update 15.22 - The Last V15 update

Bengaluru, India It is that time of the year that we release the next numbered update of our productivity software, GeoTools & CADPower. V16 is just round the corner and this post announces the last update in the V15 life-cycle.... Read more →

CADPower V15.20 Update - The Construction Grid Tool Gets a Shot in The Arm

Bengaluru, India CADPower V 15.20 Update CADPower V 15.20 released today adds many enhancements, fixes a number of minor issues and offers improved grid construction capabilities. What's New in this version? German language enhancement: Most of the missing German language... Read more →

Perpetual AutoCAD Licenses to End?

Bangalore, India Is this really the end of democracy? Or a new beginning? The software licensing landscape is changing! The raging topic today is how your software should be licensed to end-users - new as well as existing ones? In... Read more →

GeoTools-CADPower Price Revision

Bangalore, India Starting July 14 2014, we are revising the list prices of GeoTools & CADPower with a modest increase. The new prices better reflect the value that it brings to the user. The last time prices were revised was... Read more →

GeoTools Now Imports GML Files Directly

Bangalore, India GeoTools V 14.27 released today, adds two new commands to import GML files into .dwg CAD. What are GML files? The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express... Read more →

DesignSense Software Technologies - The New Bricsys India Distributor

Bangalore, India Here is some breaking news as far as Bricsys representation in India is concerned. Bricsys India, which was represented by Coordinate Systems since 2008 is transferring its entire BricsCAD distribution business to DesignSense Software Technologies Private Limited (DSST).... Read more →

CADPower V 14.22 Update : CP_CHOP & LayerState Commands fixed

Bangalore, India Bug fix: CP_CHOP : (CADPower -> Miscellaneous -> CAD Procedures -> Object Chopper): The CP_CHOP was not working correctly on closed periodic curves (like CIRCLE and ELLIPSE). This has been fixed. You can now chop a circle and... 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 →

GeoTools & CADPower Ribbon Interface - in AutoCAD 2014

Bangalore, India I am (still) not a big fan of the ribbonized user-interface that has been the norm in contemporary software design for some time now. The first GeoTools and CADPower ribbon was created not by us, but by one... Read more →

GeoTools & CADPower V14 Now Compatible With AutoCAD 2014

Bangalore, India Current promotion: GeoTools V14-99$, CADPower-39$. Read more.... We are pleased to announce V 14.03 of GeoTools and CADPower which are now compatible with AutoCAD 2014 (and vertical applications built on them). I wish to thank all our GeoTools... Read more →

Indian Standard Steel Sections - CADPower V14

Bangalore, India CP_STEELWORKS A new menu category called Mechanical has been created in the CADPower V14. The first item in this section is the Indian Standard Steel Section, which allows drawing of Indian Standard Steel Angles, Channels, T-sections and more.... Read more →

Insert a GeoTagged photo using GeoTools V14

Bangalore, India GT_INSPHOTO Important note: If you need more information about this command or detect a malfunction in this command, please email me immediately : rakesh.rao(at)4d-technologies.com Yet another new command in GeoTools V14 in the GeoTools->Geographic menu (GT_INSPHOTO) allows a... Read more →

Read EXIF data from image files - CADPower V14

Bangalore, India CP_READEXIF Important note: If you need more information about this command or detect a malfunction in this command, please email me immediately : rakesh.rao(at)4d-technologies.com The CP_READEXIF (CADPower -> Miscellaneous Tools -> File Management -> View/Extract EXIF data) is... Read more →

DWG2KML - Export CAD data to Google KML files (GeoTools V14)

Bangalore, India GT_DWG2KML Important note: If you need more information about this command or detect a malfunction in this command, please email me immediately : rakesh.rao(at)thedesignsense.com GeoTools V14 introduces a new command called GT_DWG2KML to convert CAD data to Google... Read more →

Lisp Benchmarks : AutoCAD, BricsCAD & ZWCAD+

Bangalore, India Torsten Moses of Bricsys has created some great Lisp performance evaluation programs for use in .dwg CAD platforms supporting the Lisp API interface. This Lisp Benchmark system has been developed to provide a performance test system to compare... Read more →

Ralph Grabowski reviews CADPower software

Bangalore, India We are pleased to state that renowned CAD journalist, author and industry expert Ralph Grabowski has reviewed our CADPower software on www.caddigest.com Read the full review here: Four Dimension Technologies and Coordinate Systems thank Mr. Grabowski for the... Read more →

Undocumented commands : GT_EASYOD_RESTORE & CP_EASYATT_RESTORE

Bangalore, India Undocumented commands can sometimes save you a great deal of time. Read more to learn why.... GeoTools offers a multiple-choice object data editor GT_EASYOD which allows multiple-choice object data values for each field to be setup via INI... Read more →

CADPower / GeoTools V 13.01 Update

Bangalore, India CADPower V 13.01 update: We have added two new commands in first update of V13: CP_VISIBLE : (CADPower -> Miscellaneous -> CAD Procedures -> Change object visibility): The CP_VISIBLE command converts CAD graphical objects from a visible state... Read more →

CADPower / GeoTools V13 Released

Bangalore, India GeoTools V13 & CADPower V13 are now shipping. The thirteenth numbered upgrade of GeoTools since 1999, GeoTools V13 (as well as CADPower V13) is now shipping and available for download on our website. The V13 upgrade of GeoTools... Read more →

Plant Design / Process Engineering Seminar - Some Photos

Bangalore, India The ongoing India-wide seminars on Process Engineering and Plant Design conducted by V.K Design Techniques Pvt Ltd, has been attracting good attendance and interest from participants, most of whom were from the oil and gas, chemicals, process and... Read more →

Bricscad News Recap - Tools Palette / Price Revision / India Roadshow

Bangalore, India Here is a recap and roundup of some important events in Bricscad-sphere happening now. Bricscad new Tool Palette Bricscad Version 12.2 which releases today comes with a new Tool Palette that allows you to add blocks, hatches and... Read more →

Process Plant Layout and Piping Design Workshops in India

Bangalore, India Current promotion: GeoTools V14 is only 99$ and CADPower is 39$. Read more.... It has been more than a year since Bangalore-based VK Design Techniques Pvt Limited became India's first (and still the only) Authorized Bricscad training center.... Read more →

New Product Announcement : E-Survey KML from E-Surveying.NET

Bangalore, India ESurveying Softech (PVT) Ltd. is a Bangalore-based CAD software products company specializing in creating applications for the surveying industry. A new addition to their impressive portfolio of products is the E-Survey KML, which is a convenient tool to... Read more →

Bricscad-GeoTools e-Newsletters - Who, Why and How You Receive it

Bangalore, India A small note about who, why and how you receive Bricscad-GeoTools e-Newsletter email from us. When we receive an enquiry from users who have downloaded Bricscad from our site, we get back to them via email directly. We... Read more →

GeoTools V12.19 Update

Bangalore, India Two new commands have been added in GeoTools V 12.19 update released today. ** New command added: GT_SLOPEDISPLAY (GeoTools -> Civil Tools -> Slope Display of TIN triangles): The GT_SLOPEDISPLAY command is used to color-code TIN triangles (3dfaces... Read more →