Lightwork Design launches Artisan for BricsCAD

Lightwork Design is pleased to announce the release of Artisan for BricsCAD – a new easy to use rendering solution for anyone involved in 3D design. From architectural and interior through to product design, Artisan can create great images of your work bringing your designs, documentation and presentations to life.

Jan 22, 2013

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Artisan for BricsCAD enables easy and intuitive photorealistic rendering without leaving BricsCAD. Transfer your model into Artisan in seconds, apply drag and drop materials, pre-packaged lighting and backgrounds to your models. You can download and evaluate Artisan for BricsCAD complete with a large library of materials, backgrounds, and lighting. This version is the fully functional product but will render watermarked images until supplied with a license key (available to purchase from the store).

A simple and intuitive interface means you don’t need to be a rendering expert to use Artisan for BricsCAD. Drag & drop preset materials, lighting and backgrounds onto your models and then with just one click create great looking images from your 3D designs. Artisan for BricsCAD uses the Lightworks Author rendering engine to create stunning photorealistic images and high quality OpenGL for Real-time navigation and fast previewing of material and environment changes.

Artisan is launched directly from BricsCAD with no need for file export. Continue working on your design and then update your changes in Artisan at the click of a button. Artisan will update your model changes while keeping all of the material and lighting parameters you have defined.

Artisan isn’t just about creating a single final image, it’s also a great tool for visualising your model during design. Using the powerful Artisan SnapShot feature you can quickly & easily build up a range of design alternatives for your models. Explore and compare multiple material combinations, camera positions, lighting setups and backgrounds and save them all for later use. Select your favourite SnapShots for creation of final quality images and create them when you choose using batch rendering. Double click on SnapShots to display your rendered images in the main window. Select snapshots for printing or to use within your documents and presentations. You can even use Artisan for live demonstration of your designs with clients by using SnapShots as a storyboard.

Whether you are exploring early concept designs, creating images for internal design review or looking to impress clients with final quality renders, Artisan for BricsCAD is a fast and fun way to produce professional visualisations.

Key Features

• Integration with BricsCAD means geometry and images are easily updated
• Photorealistic image creation using global illumination, HDR reflections and lighting
• High quality real-time navigation
• Preset materials, lighting and backgrounds
• Drag and drop interface
• Manage design variations using SnapShots
• Free tutorials and downloadable resources available at www.lightworksartisan.com

About Lightworks

Lightworks is the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software. Now in its 23rd year, Lightworks continues to develop products to provide customers with innovative and market-focused solutions for the creation of powerful and easy-to-use rendering applications. Renowned for providing physically accurate visualisation of real-world objects and environments, Lightworks is the ideal choice for companies wanting to target the Architectural, Interior and Mechanical Design markets. Lightworks gives customers fast and efficient access to leading-edge rendering technology, resulting in shorter development cycles, faster time-to-market for new products, and lower software development costs.

Lightworks technology is embedded in over 80 software applications and used by more than 3 million users worldwide.

About Bricsys

Bricsys® is a global provider of dwg engineering design software brought to market under the BricsCAD® brand.

With relentless commitment to the success of the BricsCAD community, Bricsys is focused on providing an industrial strength CAD software platform and industry leading support at a compelling price to customers in the AEC, GIS, civil engineering, process and power, and mechanical CAD markets.

Founded in 2002, Bricsys is a founding member of the Open Design Alliance. For additional information about Bricsys, visit www.bricsys.com.

About BricsCAD

BricsCAD® is the powerful CAD software and development platform unifying the familiar feature set of native dwg with advanced 2D tools and intelligent 3D direct modeling on Windows and Linux.

The software allows design, engineering and manufacturing professionals to enter the world of 3D direct modeling without the need to leave their familiar dwg environment, and this at a compelling price. BricsCAD provides application developers with the software platform and broad suite of standard APIs required to deliver advanced solutions to cost conscious customers in the AEC, GIS, civil engineering, process & power, and mechanical CAD markets.

Available in more than 15 languages and with hundreds of Third Party solutions, BricsCAD is so much more than an alternative. For more information about BricsCAD, visit www.bricsys.com/BricsCAD.