![]() ![]() Most of Autodesk’s verticals use file formats that are incompatible with one another, and so the integrity of models can suffer from translation. This means that anything designed in BricsCAD-whether sheet metal, 3D buildings, 2D drawings, or whatever-never needs to be translated. ![]() The Bricsys philosophy is to use DWG for everything-quite the opposite of Autodesk. Bricsys likes to boast of spending over 40% of its revenues on research and development, double the percentage for Autodesk. ![]() In a reverse tortoise and hare analogy, AutoCAD is the tortoise that’s ahead but losing interest in the race, while BricsCAD is the hare catching up with hundreds of new features each year. Figure 1: BricsCAD V19 editing a sheet metal assembly. (See figure 1.) The full package price is half that of AutoCAD, yet in many areas it does far more than the 35-year-old market dominator. ![]() To rise above them, the company decided a decade ago to rewrite the code and then acquired programmers from Russian software contractor LEDAS to add smarts to BricsCAD.īricsCAD expanded from a mostly-2D CAD package to one that specializes in direct 3D editing, BIM, sheet metal design, assemblies, and 3D parametrics, plus a translator that handles files from many 3D MCAD programs. In the distant past, BricsCAD was one of dozens of IntelliCAD licensees. Two of them held conferences in the past few weeks to outline their plans for 2019. All the others that you may have heard of are based on code by either Graebert or the ITC. Only four companies make all the AutoCAD-workalike programs out there: Bricsys of Belgium, Graebert of Germany, IntelliCAD Technical Consortium of USA, and NanoSoft of Russia. ![]()
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