Bricsys is a global provider of the BricsCAD® brand of engineering design software and has been developing BricsCAD since 2002.
For the last two decades, their singular focus has been building cost-effective, mission-critical CAD tools. Now as a part of the global technology giant Hexagon AB, they are reinforcing their commitment to take your design workflows to the next level.
With BricsCAD Communicator BricsCAD can work effectively with external CAD packages with import for Autodesk, Catia, Creo, Solidworks, and more.
| BricsCAD® Lite | BricsCAD® Pro | BricsCAD® BIM | BricsCAD® Mechanical | AutoCAD | ||
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| Licensing | Multi-platform Licenses |  | | | |  |
| Perpetual | | | | | |
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| Perpetual + Maintenance | | | | | |
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| Subscription | | | | | |
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| Network Multi-user | | | | | |
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| Volume (Perpetual) | | | | | |
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| Academic | | | | | |
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| Drawings | Native DWG file format (through AutoCAD 2022) | | | | | |
| Password Protection | | | | | |
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| eTransmit | | | | | |
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| Sheet Set Manager | | | | | |
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| Geographic Location | | | | | |
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| Drawing Compare | | | | | |
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| Cloud Collaboration | | | | | |
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| Interface | Dark and Light Color Themes | | | | | |
| Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables | | | | | |
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| Command Line (Autocomplete, Midstring, Clickable options) | | | | | |
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| Start tab | | | | | |
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| File (Drawing) tabs | | | | | |
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| Model and Layout tabs | | | | | |
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| Menu bar | | | | | |
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| Toolbars | | | | | |
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| Ribbon | | | | | |
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| Tool Palettes | | | | | |
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| Contextual Right-click Menus | | | | | |
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| Contextual Quad Menu | | | | | |
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| Status Bar | | | | | |
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| Workspaces | | | | | |
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| Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box | | | | | |
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| Lockable Interface | | | | | |
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| Clean Screen Mode | | | | | |
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| Drawing Explorer | | | | | |
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| Customizable User Interface (CUI) | | | | | |
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| Structure Browser | | | | | |
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| Selection, Snap & Track | Selection Filtering (QSELECT) | | | | | |
| Add Selected | | | | | |
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| Select Similar | | | | | |
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| Selection Cycling | | | | | |
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| Entity Snaps (Osnaps) | | | | | |
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| Polar Tracking | | | | | |
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| Zintersection 3D snap | | | | | |
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| Nearest Distance | | | | | |
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| Adaptive Gridsnap | | | | | |
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| Real-time boundary detection | | | | | |
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| 2D Dynamic UCS | | | | | |
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| 3D Dynamic UCS | | | | | |
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| Drawing Tools | Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline | | | | | |
| Multiline and Multiline Styles | | | | | |
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| Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Eliptical Arc | | | | | |
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| Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point | | | | | |
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| Helix | | | | | |
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| 2D Parameters, Constraints | | | | | |
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| Annotation Tools | Text, Multi-line Text, Text Styles, Text Editor | | | | | |
| Dimensions, Dimension Styles | | | | | |
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| Multi-leaders, Mult-leader Styles | | | | | |
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| Single and Multi-line text, Text Styles, Text Editor | | | | | |
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| Hatches, Gradients, Hatch/Gradient Editor | | | | | |
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| Wipeouts | | | | | |
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| Revision Clouds | | | | | |
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| Attributes, Attribute Editor | | | | | |
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| Tables, Table Styles | | | | | |
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| Fields | | | | | |
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| Date Extraction | | | | | |
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| Data Linking | | | | | |
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| Annotation Scaling | | | | | |
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| Spell Check | | | | | |
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| Editing Tools | Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align | | | | | |
| Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join | | | | | |
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| Fillet, Chamfer | | | | | |
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| CopyGuided | | | | | |
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| Grip Edit | | | | | |
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| Properties Panel | | | | | |
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| Manipulator (3D Gizmo) | | | | | |
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| Draworder | | | | | |
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| Reference Tools | Blocks, Block Editor | | | | | |
| Dynamic Blocks | | | | | |
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| Camera-facing Blocks | | | | | |
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| Blockify | | | | | |
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| Associative Arrays | | | | | |
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| Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit | | | | | |
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| PDF Attach, Clip | | | | | |
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| Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency | | | | | |
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| Point Cloud Preprocess, Attach, Crop, Colormap | | | | | |
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| Visualization Tools | Layers, Layer States | | | | | |
| Transparency | | | | | |
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| Visual Styles | | | | | |
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| LookFrom (ViewCube™) | | | | | |
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| Match Perspective | | | | | |
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| Lights | | | | | |
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| Sun Properties | | | | | |
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| Materials | | | | | |
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| Render | | | | | |
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| Animation Editor | | | | | |
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| Walkthrough navigation | | | | | |
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| ANIPATH command | | | | | |
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| Modeling tools | ACIS Modeling | | | | | |
| Solid and Surface Modeling | | | | | |
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| Solid Primitives | | | | | |
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| Mesh Primitives | | | | | |
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| Polysolid | | | | | |
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| Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere | | | | | |
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| Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken | | | | | |
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| Twist | | | | | |
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| Fillet, Chamfer | | | | | |
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| Slice | | | | | |
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| Multi-slice | | | | | |
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| T Connect, L Connect, Connect with Nearest | | | | | |
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| Extract Edges | | | | | |
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| Direct modeling | | | | | |
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| Deformable (Freeform) Modeling | | | | | |
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| Audit, Simplify, Stitch | | | | | |
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| 3D Parameters, Constraints | | | | | |
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| 3D Autoparametrize | | | | | |
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| 3D Parametric Design Tables | | | | | |
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| Section planes | | | | | |
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| Drawing Views | | | | | |
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| Civil Tools | TIN Surface Modeling | | | | | |
| TIN Volume Surface | | | | | |
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| Grading | | | | | |
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| Alignments | | | | | |
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| Civil 3D Object Enabler | | | | | |
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| Architectural Desktop Object Enabler | | | | | |
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| CADWorx Object Enabler | | | | | |
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| Import, Export, Output | Print/Plot | | | | | |
| Publish/Batch Plot | | | | | |
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| CTB & STB Table Files | | | | | |
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| PC3 Printer Configuration Files | | | | | |
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| Named Page Setups | | | | | |
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| PDF Import, Export | | | | | |
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| DAE Import, Export | | | | | |
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| IFC Import, Export | | | | | |
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| 3DM Import, Export | | | | | |
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| LandXML Import, Export | | | | | |
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| RFA Import | | | | | |
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| SKP Import | | | | | |
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| DGN Import | | | | | |
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| DWF Export | | | | | |
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| SVG Export | | | | | |
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| FBX Export | | | | | |
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| STL Export | | | | | |
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| Additional formats available with BricsCAD Communicator | | | | | |
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| Programming | ActiveX | | | | | |
| Entity data editor | | | | | |
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| Script Recorder | | | | | |
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| Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax) | | | | | |
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| Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS) | | | | | |
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| DCL engine | | | | | |
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| COM API | | | | | |
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| Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) | | | | | |
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| VBA DVB projects support | | | | | |
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| .NET | | | | | |
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| BRX (ARX) | | | | | |
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| TX (Teigha eXtensions) | | | | | |
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| CUI menu files support, with Diesel expressions | | | | | |
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| Architectural Tools | BIM features | | | | | |
| Structural Modeling Toolset | | | | | |
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| Project Database | | | | | |
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| Library Database | | | | | |
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| Site, Building and Stories | | | | | |
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| Windows and Doors | | | | | |
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| Fully Parametric Window Creation | | | | | |
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| Rooms (Spaces) | | | | | |
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| 3D Rooms | | | | | |
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| Quickdraw | | | | | |
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| Propagate | | | | | |
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| Mechanical Tools | Mechanical Browser | | | | | |
| Parts Library | | | | | |
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| Assembly Modeling | | | | | |
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| Exploded Views | | | | | |
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| Kinematic Analysis | | | | | |
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| Bill of Materials | | | | | |
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| Sheet Metal | | | | | |
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| SMEXTRUDE Command | | | | | |
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| SMRIBCREATE Command | | | | | |
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| 3D Solids Conversion to Unfoldable Sheet Metal Parts | | | | | |
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| Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges | | | | | |
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| Lofted Bends | | | | | |
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| Coloring | | | | | |
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| Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features | | | | | |
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| Batch Processing | | | | | |