While it’s based on DWG, the DWG engine is designed for modern processors and is multithreaded, so it’s fast. While it started out as an AutoCAD clone, it has surpassed that functionality and has been on its own trajectory for a number of years. The foundation for all Bricsys tools is BricsCAD. Each year has brought leaps in expanded functionality. This is the third year in a row that we have followed the developments from Bricsys. The one thing that Lego CAD gets wrong is sweating the details too early in the process, where what needs to happen is the act of experimentation and design.
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The software also offers a whole host of other tools to rapidly get from a solid model to a BIM model. From there on the refinement can continue.
and automatically assigns IFC tags to each. Invoking the ‘BIMify’ command then sets the AI loose to automatically recognise walls, windows, slabs, columns etc. For openings, simple Boolean commands punch holes. This can be expressive and freeform and the designer does not have to worry about anything except sculping the form. There is also a cloud collaboration document manager with automated workflows.īricsCAD BIM presents the designer with a blank sheet and starts by modelling the envelope of the building using solids. It also handles point clouds, VR, runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and comes with a perpetual licence or on subscription and in single or network licence configurations.
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For mechanical engineers, it’s a full 3D ACIS-based solid modelling application with amazing sheet folding capabilities. For civil engineers, as of last year, it now has terrain/grading tools, road and pipe design. For people who need a draughting tool, it’s a powerful CAD system moulded to replace AutoCAD, and even supports the development APIs ARx, Lisp etc.).įor architects and engineers, it’s a design-centric BIM modeller with automated associative 2D take offs, with support for generative design with McNeel Grasshopper and real time viz with Enscape.
The best way to think about BricsCAD is that it’s a 2D/3D DWG-based CAD platform that has a Swiss Army knife of vertical applications built on top. Bricsys continues to be a brand within the Hexagon family and actively markets and sells BricsCAD and its vertical products. Hexagon had previously ported its AutoCAD-based plant application onto BricsCAD and were so impressed they bought the company. Based in Ghent, Belgium, the company has been developing since 2002 and the founder, Erik de Keyser sold the company to the process plant division of Hexagon in 2018. All the major software developers have moved their conferences online, and complex new products have continued to be released, on time, even though we can’t find toilet paper, flour and dried pasta in our local stores.īricsys Digital Summit provides five hours of design technology entertainment and they even have a house-band of employees that occasionally pop in to entertain.īefore I jump into what was shown, a little about Bricsys. While 2020 has been the oddest of years, the Internet has managed to save us from sitting at home wondering what to do with ourselves.
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Martyn Day reports from the Bricsys Digital Summit on the latest features in the V21 update, plus other news The DWG-based BricsCAD BIM has deservedly earned the reputation of the most rapidly developed design authoring tool in BIM.