The new Drawing Explorer

In the brand new Drawing Explorer dialog you can manage the content of all open drawings. You can add, remove or modify layers, line styles, copy definitions between open drawings, see a preview of internal blocks, attached images and xrefs, set your favorite drawing folder and open additional drawings.

The Properties Bar

Using the Properties Bar you can set the current entity properties and edit a single entity, the shared properties of multiple entities, a selection set, text entities, dimensions.

Settings Dialog Box

In Bricscad all settings and variables can be edited in a single dialog. This movie shows you how you can easily find any setting, view its current status and how to modify it.

Customize Bricscad

You can customize the Bricscad user interface using your own menus, toolbars and keyboard shortcuts. In this movie you will learn how to create a customized user interface file.

The Layer States Manager

The Layer States manager (new in version 8.2) allows to save and restore layer states in a drawing. Layer states can be copied between drawings or exported to an external file, which can be imported later in another drawing.

Working with Attributes

An attribute is a particular entity that you can save as part of a block definition. Attributes consist of text-based data. When you insert a block containing attributes, you are prompted to supply any variable values. You can extract the attribute information to a separate file and then use that information in a spreadsheet or database.

Quick Select

QuickSelect lets you select entities using a variety of filters such as Entity Type, Color, Layer, Linetype, etc ... QuickSelect applies to all entities in the drawing or to the current selection set. You can remove a new selection from the current selection set or add it to the current selection set. You can then edit the properties of the selection in the Properties Bar or execute a modification command, such as copy, mirror or move.

Gradient

Learn how to create and edit solid fills in nine different patterns and one or two colors.

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.

Layer Tools

Using the layer tools you can click entities to freeze, lock, unlock or isolate layers. Just click a tool button to display or thaw all layers.

Reference Editing

Refedit allows to edit the content of external references (Xrefs) and block inserts from within the current drawing.Refedit either works on a portion of the reference being edited or on the entire drawing or all entities in the block.

Hatching

In this movie you will learn how to create hatches using a predefined pattern, create user defined hatches and how to edit an existing hatch.

Blocks in Bricscad

In this movie you will learn how to place blocks in Bricscad and how to copy blocks between drawings.

Bonus Tools (*)

This movie explains how to load the Bricscad Bonus tools and how to use them.
(*) V8 Bonus tools features are standard in V9

Drawing Accurately

This movie explains how to draw accurately by using ortho mode, direct distance entry, entity snaps, snap angle, polar tracking and snap tracking.

Copy between drawings

To copy entities from one drawing to another you can use the copy command or the clipboard. In the target drawing entities can be pasted at a user defined location or using the coordinates of the source drawing.

Grips editing

Using grips you can stretch, move, rotate, scale or mirror entities. For each of these operations you can choose to make multiple copies of the original entities. Multiple grips on the same entity or on different entities can be manipulated simultaneously.

Draw isometric

Learn how to draw an isometric perspective using Polar Tracking and Entity Snap Tracking.

2D Constraints: Bracket

Create a fully constrained bracket from scratch.

2D Constraints: Door Swing

Create a door swing and control the width and opening angle.

Design Intent recognition

Bricscad Platinum provides the ability to edit non-parametric geometry without the need to understand the design history of the geometry. This allows to preserve the correct relationships between selected geometry (e.g., tangency, concentricity, ...) and makes the editing process less time and labor intensive.

eBridge™ to Vondle™

eBridge starts where eTransmit ends. With eBridge Bricscad now connects to Vondle - a full SaaS solution. eBridge and Vondle allow to manage, view, share, log all file versions of a CAD project and much more.

Printing

This movie covers all facets of the printing process.You will learn how to print model space and layouts, select a paper size, define the plot area, set the plot scale, select a plot style table and preview the plot output.

Batch Plot

This movie shows how to print multiple drawings in Bricscad.
Note:
The Batch Plot utility is a VBA sample code available in Bricscad Pro only.