01 December 2018

Bricsys, a leading Belgium company and a global provider of .dwg engineering design software, has announced the launch of BricsCAD V19, the most advanced .dwg-based CAD system.

It extends BricsCAD’s familiar, cost-effective workflows for general drafting, mechanical design and building information modelling (BIM).

All of these workflows are now available in a single product family. There are hundreds of new features, workflow improvements and fixes in this new, major version of BricsCAD, says the company.

A key new feature in BricsCAD V19 are Blockify, which finds repetitive geometry and automatically creates blocks to reduce .dwg size. It works for both 2D and 3D geometry.

2D drafting and sketching is faster with the new nearest distance dynamic dims, “nudge”, and adaptive snap steps that work together to make drawing accurately easy.

A host of user interface (UI) enhancements take the BricsCAD experience to a new level. Bricsys has simplified workspaces and added a new panel to monitor and manage drawing attachments. A dockable parameters panel helps to access and change values easily.

The new CUI management and settings management tools strive to make life easier. New live datalink tools, DGN file and PDF import, and point cloud visualisation features help round out just a few of the major new additions to BricsCAD V19. BricsCAD BIM proves the viability of .dwg as a core format for real 3D BIM, says the Belgian company.

“BricsCAD BIM V19 delivers an efficient, full 3D workflow that starts in 3D and stays in 3D. It utilises AI (artificial intelligence) to connect layered compositions quickly, consistently and correctly. This promises exquisitely executed quantity take-offs and truly accurate detailing, across the entire model,” says a spokesman for Bricsys. “The new, simplified UI will speed things up, whilst the curtain wall command makes short work of designing facades. BIM components can now be created by just importing and parameterising RFA files and can then be added directly to a model via drag-and-drop.”

He adds that Bricsys has combined the BricsCAD Platinum edition with Sheet Metal for BricsCAD to create the all-new BricsCAD Mechanical. It brings the power of direct modelling, constraints, and parametrics to give the ultimate 3D modelling freedom for mechanical designers.  

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