Bricscad V17

BricsCAD V17.2 boosts display performance, adds new usability tools and comes with a powerful set of workflow-enhancing features – and best of all, it’s free of charge to V17 license owners!

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A Display Performance Boost

The display performance of BricsCAD V17.2 is spectacular. We’ve improved REGEN speed for users who use raster images within their 3D models. Overall, entity selection is enhanced with 5x faster display highlight rendering. You can ZOOM faster, especially when you’re working in perspective views. Also, you’ll notice that zooming via your mouse-wheel is smoother than ever. We’ve also greatly improved the overall selection and display performance of BricsCAD in drawings containing entities at extreme coordinates.

Display performance is faster in V17.2

BricsCAD V17.2 lets you control the threshold for layer filter removal on drawing load. This speeds the performance of the Layer Explorer and other dialogs that display layer information. If you work with raster images, V17.2 now supports image settings like fade, contrast and brightness.

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Faster Command Access through Usability & Interface Improvements

The Quad is BricsCAD’s unique, customizable heads-up interface. In V17.2, we’ve reworked the Quad to make it easier to configure the commands that you want to display.

Customize Quad tabs to meet your individual needs

You can easily add commands to a Quad tab by drag-and-drop, or via a right-click context menu. Creating your own tabs and buttons is easy. Also, V17.2 gives you the option to create an optimized Quad for each Workspace that you use. Less time choosing commands means faster and more accurate drawing creation, and the Quad is the best way to put these commands at your cursor, when you want them.

Tool Palettes now support command macros

BricsCAD’s Tool Palettes give you effortless drag-and-drop access to your most-used commands, hatch patterns and render materials. In V17.2, you can change the properties of multiple Tool Palette items with one click. Also, you can now use macros in the command strings of your Tools.

New Features to Help You Get Work Done Faster and More Accurately

The Tips widget displays additional information during command execution, and in V17.2 you can decide if and when the widget appears through the new Tips Configuration dialog box.

You can toggle through layout tabs quickly by pressing the Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn keys, letting you quickly flip through multiple layouts.

We’ve reworked Publish to PDF to ensure a smoother publishing process

We’ve reworked Publish to PDF to ensure a smoother publishing process. The Print to PDF driver is improved with the ability to manage custom paper sizes. In V17.2 you can use the Publish dialog’s stored registry settings to control your PDF output, and have the ability to manage these settings separately from those of the ExportPDF command.

And There’s More – A Lot More!

We’ve just scratched the surface of the new power of BricsCAD V17.2, but we couldn’t fit it all into a single blog post! So, don’t forget to check out the other new enhancements in:

Pricing and Availability for BricsCAD V17.2

BricsCAD V17.2 is a free update to our current V17 customers. It is available in many languages for the Windows, OS X, and Linux operating systems. You can download the English version for Windows today. We’ll be releasing additional languages and platforms in the weeks to come. The download provides a free 30-day trial of all functionality of the BricsCAD Platinum edition.

Hey, you don’t have BricsCAD yet? BricsCAD V17 starts at just €450/$550, and upgrades start at €245/$265.

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BricsCAD BIM V17.2: Make your building designs crystal clear

BricsCAD BIM adds Building Information Modeling to BricsCAD Platinum, and brings world-class BIM workflows to the native .dwg environment. Therefore, if you create building and infrastructure projects, it’s possible that BricsCAD BIM can change your world – or at least the way you work. Because of the powerful new features in BricsCAD Platinum V17.2, there’s a world of new functionality in this update of BricsCAD BIM.

3D Direct Modeling makes your ideas crystal clear

BricsCAD BIM V17.2 uses 3D direct modeling to create your designs in a very intuitive way. First, you can drag and drop components, then push and pull faces and edges to create accurate massing models with accurate dimensions. Then, when you leverage the Push/Pull and Rotate modeling commands to change your design, BricsCAD BIM will search for and detect adjoining boundaries. In addition, these boundaries will imprint onto your 3D model automatically. It’s almost like BricsCAD BIM is assisting you in your thought process – you can create freely while remaining aware of site and building limits at all times.

BIM Drag adds intelligence to free-form modeling

The BIMDRAG command easily extends walls and slabs to meet up with target walls, and join to them automatically. In BricsCAD BIM V17.2, you can perform these extensions via a single click in the Quad cursor. BricsCAD BIM will select the nearest wall termination automatically. Was that the wrong wall? You can simply choose another by pressing the Ctrl key. When you are working with walls containing compositions, you can extend them, ply by ply, thanks to these simple and intuitive tools. This is dimensionally-accurate free-form modeling, taken to the next level with BricsCAD BIM V17.2.

BIM Patches simplify detail view creation

A difficulty of the BIM modeling process centers around the amount of detail you need to model to create proper detail views in your construction documents. How much detail does one really need? Does every element of a detail need to be modeled in full 3D? BricsCAD’s BIM Patches let you add additional detail to specific sections of your model, and display that detail in generated 2D drawings. BIM Patches are fully associative. Changes to the model that cause the detail view to change will cause BricsCAD to graphically inform you of the change. Furthermore, BricsCAD BIM will intelligently preserve any edits that you’ve made to the changed detail.

BIM does not happen in a vacuum!

Without collaboration, the Architecture, Engineering and Construction practices simply can not function. For years, collaboration meant passing paper drawing sets between disciplines. You’ll find that things are very different today, because the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data model standardizes on the descriptions of building and construction industry data.

Exchange BIM data accurately with full IFC compliance

BricsCAD BIM uses the IFC file format to exchange architectural models with other software. In BricsCAD BIM V17.2, you have direct access to the model’s material information, which is automatically imported to project libraries. Also, properties from the IFC’s common property sets are imported into BricsCAD BIM as BIM Properties. As a result, you can import IFC spatial structure directly, including site, building, and story (storey) information. Also, composed elements detected in IFC files are imported as classified (nested), named blocks, stored directly as native data in the .dwg file.

How do I get BricsCAD BIM V17.2?

If you are a current BricsCAD BIM V17 licensee, the V17.2 upgrade is yours for free. It is available in many languages for the Windows, OS X and Linux operating systems. You can download the English version for Windows today. We will be releasing additional languages and platforms in the weeks to come. Are you ready to experience the future of BIM? Simply visit our website and start your BIM experience today!

If you don’t have BricsCAD BIM yet, you can get now for €1,160 / $1320. If you already have BricsCAD Platinum V17, you can add the BIM tools for only €250 / $300. Were you told that BIM couldn’t happen in .dwg-based CAD? Don’t listen to the doubters, just try it for yourself!