Bricscad v11 Platinum

Bricscad V11 is again a huge step forward for .dwg based CAD. Bricscad V11 offers an impressive set of new features and an enhanced Graphical User Interface with support for new style grips and dynamic input.

Top 10 reasons:

Bricscad is the powerful .dwg-alternative CAD platform that enables .dwg-based applications and offers a complete and recognizable feature set to professional users. Here are 10 reasons why to choose Bricscad:

   1. You can modernize your CAD for 1/5 the price of AutoCAD.
   2. Bricscad offers full-function 2D/3D .dwg-based CAD and a compelling technology roadmap.
   3. Bricscad comes with friendly upgrade policies.
   4. The people behind Bricscad are CAD veterans committed to world-class support.
   5. Most users are transitioning from AutoCAD to Bricscad in one week or less.
   6. Bricscad has over 100,000 users around the world and earned a 98% satisfaction rating.
   7. Users and administrators in organizations with both Bricscad and AutoCAD prefer Bricscad.
   8. Bricscad offers an AutoCAD-compatible programming platform that supports existing applications.
   9. Increasingly, top developers are offering their existing AutoCAD applications and add-ons on Bricscad.
  10. You can try it right now for free!

Other benefits

Enabling applications
Thanks to the extended list of compatible API's available (LISP, SDS, COM, BRX), Bricscad is now chosen by more than hundred of application developers so far to port their AutoCAD® based application to. Each application extends Bricscad feature set to a new level.

Enabling solutions
Applications in main domains, such as AEC, GIS, Mechanical and Civil Engineering lift the Bricscad platform to the highest professional level. With a constant growing number of available engineering applications the Bricscad platform offers real solutions for the job to be done.

Enabling choices
By enabling .dwg based solutions in every engineering domain Bricsys now finally can offer freedom in the decision process. From now on the CAD world does have a real choice. Bricscad combines professional engineering solutions with a fair and transparent pricing model, and a user friendly upgrade policy.

Worldwide presence
Bricscad is worldwide leader in .dxg alternative CAD. Bricscad - today available in 16 languages - offers an international platform for applications. Bricsys - the company behind Bricscad - assists developers actively with the porting of regional and international applications. Together with the application developers, Bricsys is building an international .dwg based engineering community.

High quality support
In addition to its technological strength, Bricsys delivers high quality support to each user, each developer, every day and everywhere. Bricsys’ customers are leaders in their field and require a zero tolerance support. Bricsys eliminates barriers between its technical teams and the users of its products. Bricsys customers - anywhere on the globe - can communicate their support requests directly with the Bricsys support team.

Pricing
And finally, yes we know that our pricing is one of the main reasons why most people ultimately prefer our technology. Comparable quality for far less money. Download and try it out for free for the next 30 days. We are confident…

Key features:

Bricscad is recognized as the number one .dwg CAD alternative. Its .dwg compatibility level together with the availability of a constant growing number of third party applications – more than 160 today – makes Bricscad the best alternative solution. Bricscad V11 offers an impressive set of features.

3D parametric solid modeling
Bricscad V11 Platinum for Windows enables 3D parametric solid modeling for users who want to work both in 2D and 3D without leaving the .dwg environment. Primitives such as box, cylinder, cone, sphere, torus and wedge are available together with extrude, revolve and sweep operations. By combining these through Boolean operations – union, subtract, intersect – the user can form complex composite solid shapes.

• X-solids captures the history of solids as they are created, allowing parametric editing of these solids at any time. Any primitive parameter can be easily changed.
• X-Tools and QuickDraw allows to form complex composite solid shapes and automatically creates and aligns 2D geometry for up to 10 views at once for easily created detail drawings.
• X-Hardware Extended 3D library with parametric objects of all kinds – nuts, bolts, screws, pins, and more – are instantly created or resized at the touch of a button.
• ACIS kernel performs fast solid modeling operations and accurate hidden line removal.

Powerful 3D Render Engine
Bricscad V11 Pro has an extremely powerful rendering engine allowing to work in permanent render mode. Materials and lights can be created and edited in the Materials section of the Drawing Explorer.

Dynamic Input and Dynamic Dimensions
Dynamic Dimensions are available while creating /editing entities. With the new DYNMODE button it can be switched ON/OFF. When moving a grip point, all related dimensions are displayed in real time and can be modified on the fly with Dynamic Input.

Dynamic Blocks
You can insert dynamic blocks from your existing dynamic block libraries and adjust the custom properties and constraints in the Properties Bar.

Materials
Materials are defined by the different color settings and the settings such as glossiness, transparency, refraction index, self illumination and reflectivity. Materials can be detailed by selecting a bitmap under diffuse map and then be fine-tuned with the settings of the transparency map and the bump map. All maps then can be blended too, to get the exact look as you want.

Layer Preview
In the Layers section of the Drawing Explorer the content of each layer displays in the Preview pane.

PDF Underlay
Attach any pdf file to your drawing. You can snap to the geometry contained in the pdf.

Creation of seperate Hatches
You can create separate hatches when clicking subsequent points to detect hatch boundaries or when you select multiple closed entities to be hatched.

eBridge™ to Vondle
eBridge starts where eTransmit ends. With eBridge Bricscad now connects to Vondle™. eBridge and Vondle allow to manage, view, share, log all file versions of a CAD project and much more. eBridge connects automatically with the Vondle servers and uploads the selected files. Files already on the server are checked automatically on modifications. This is just one of the many automated processes, guaranteeing control on integrity.

Associative Dimensions
Dimensions are updated automatically when the geometry has changed. You can even dimension Model Space entities in Paper Space and see them being updated when you modify the entities in Model Space. Dimensions can now be linked to entity snap points such as endpoints, midpoints and perpendicular. Associative dimensioning applies to both linear and angular dimensions.

Reference Editing
The Refedit tool allows to edit the content of external references (Xrefs) and block inserts from within the current drawing, which is referred to as in-place reference editing. RefEdit either works on a portion of the reference which you edit or on the entire drawing or all entities in the block. Nested blocks are detected automatically and presented in a tree view. A preview of each block or Xref helps you to select the correct object. The changes are saved back to the Xref source drawing or the block definition in the current drawing

Settings Manager
In the Settings Dialog you can check or modify the current value of all settings. The settings can be viewed alphabetically or categorized, grouping related settings in a tree view. The built-in search feature lets you find settings quickly and intuitively. For each setting you get a short description, whether the setting is global or drawing specific and, if possible, a graphical preview.

System requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7 (32/64 bits) / Vista / XP / 2000 / Fedora 12 or higher / OpenSuse 11.1 or higher / Ubuntu 9.10 or higher.
• Intel® Pentium® III 1 Ghz processor or faster, or compatible processor.
• Minimum RAM - Besides the memory used by the Operating System a minimum 256 MB of RAM should be available.
• Recommended RAM - We recommend 1 Gb of RAM or more.
• Hard Drive: 200 MB, 100 MB for program files, 100 MB free space
• Display requirements: 1024x768 XGA with true color (minimum)