BricsCAD Upgrade

The latest release of BricsCAD brings new levels of performance and innovation to the heart of the BricsCAD product family, improving the design, construction, and manufacturing workflows.

What's New in BricsCAD v25

BricsCAD Lite

• 2D Reference Parameters - BricsCAD now supports AutoCAD® style 2D reference parameters.
• CUI Shortcuts - Improved search for missing attachments and better panel status updates.
• Built-in Block Library - Work with familiar features in your workflows with the enhanced Blocks Library.
• ETRANSMIT - Choose between binding or inserting external references directly from the ETRANSMIT dialogue.
• Input History - Now access and re-use input history from the command line and command context menus.
• Selection Cycling - Selection Cycling makes selecting overlapping entities simple in BricsCAD.
• TRIM - TRIM now features better boundary detection, quick mode, trim on hatch, and other usability enhancements.
• ATTACHMENTS - Improved search for missing attachments and better panel status updates.
• COLORBOOKS - Encrypted color books are now supported in BricsCAD V25.
• CURSORMODE - Choose to switch the cursor to a solid color mode for better legibility when hovering over raster imagery.
• DIMJOGGED / DIMJOGLINE - New DIMJOGGED and DIMJOGLINE commands are available in BricsCAD V25.
• EXPORTTOAUTOCAD - Creates a new version of a drawing file with AEC entities converted into BLOCKs.
• MIRROR - MIRROR now retains temporary tracker graphics to improve the overall user experience.
• PEDITEXT - Implemented a streamlined method for modifying PLINEs (Polylines). Try it, you'll like it!
• QUICKCALC - The calculator is now available for use in the numeric fields of the Properties Panel.
• SCALE - SCALE now offers a dynamic preview when dragging the mouse cursor to set an entity’s scale factor.
• TABLE Autofill - Now easily click and drag to autofill TABLE cells.
• TABLE row and column selection - Now select rows and columns by selecting the column heading or the row number.
• VPSCALE - Viewport scale controls added to the Status Bar for setting the layout scale simply.

BricsCAD Pro

• Everything above, plus...
• Point cloud rendering modes - Now supports doll house rendering, eye dome lighting, and gap filling, with new panel controls

BricsCAD Mechanical

• Everything in Lite & Pro, plus...
• AAMRESCALE - Create scaled versions of any drawing section, and the dimension and annotation text, and positioning will automatically update.
• PowerDIM - Introduces a placement option for power dimensioning to snap distance-to-freeze dimension and annotation position on placement.
• AMSURFSYM - Provides an effortless way to visually set the parameter values for surface symbol definition and to quickly position the symbol.
• CAEANALYZE2D - Experimental feature to integrate 2D Finite Element Analysis into BricsCAD Mechanical.
• BMARROW - Allows you to place annotation arrows in assembly instructions.
• EBMSEQUENCE - Allows mechanical assembly designers to manually create assembly sequences quickly.
• ETRANSMIT - Choose between binding or inserting external references directly from the ETRANSMIT dialog.
• DIMJOGGED / DIMJOGLINE - New DIMJOGGED and DIMJOGLINE commands are available in BricsCAD V25

BricsCAD BIM

• BIMWALL - Provides smarter behavior between wall connections when modeling.
• BIMATTACHCOMPOSITION - Delivers better persistence-of-wall connections when changing wall thickness or compositions.
• BIMINVERTSPACES - Generate 3D floor layouts based on 3D planes more accurately with predictable results.
• Model Federation and Georeferencing (IFC) - Set survey, project, and site location data to be used during IFC import and export.
• BIMPROPERTIES - Import IDS-XML to add property definitions from external sources: BIMQ, BIMids.eu, ILSconfigurator.nl.
• IMPORT (IFC) - Save profile settings from the IFC Import Settings dialog box.
• IMPORT (WCS) - BricsCAD BIM now stores IFC geo-reference points in the drawing: Global origin, Project origin, and Site origin.

BricsCAD Ultimate

• Enjoy everything in Lite, Pro, Bim and Mechanical