Gent, April 29, 2008: DOSLib available for Bricscad V8

Bricscad V9: enabling solutions
2008-08-25

Bricsys announces Bricscad V9, the secure path to engineering solutions. Bricscad V9 has an impressive set of new features and substantially improved performance. Bricscad V9 now brings applications for AEC, GIS, Civil and Mechanical Engineering to the DWG community.

Bricscad V9 features

Major, one-year life-cycle releases such as Bricscad V9 include many new features. Below are some powerful new features that were most frequently requested by Bricscad V8 customers:

  • Associative Dimensions
  • Reference Edit
  • In-place WYSIWYG mtext editor
  • Quick Select
  • Wipe Out
  • Many important performance improvements
  • BRX API: for porting ARX based code and running BRX applications (requires Bricscad Pro)

Bricscad V9: the solutions platform

It is crucial that the DWG CAD platform of your choice provides perspective for the tasks today and tomorrow, either in AEC, GIS, Mechanical or in Civil Engineering. Bricsys is glad to announce that Bricscad V9 has received enthousiastic support and acceptance by application developers worldwide.

As a start, during the month of September 2008, Bricsys will announce more than 20 professional applications ported from AutoCAD to Bricscad V9. And that's just the beginning of a long list to come. Each application enhances the feature set of Bricscad V9, bringing the preferred DWG alternative to the level of professional engineering.

The English version of Bricscad V9 will be officially released in September 2008. Starting today, the beta version of Bricscad V9 is available for download.

DOSLib available for Bricscad V8
Gent, April 29, 2008

DOSLib, is a library of AutoLISP-callable functions that provides a variety of Windows operating system capabilities to Bricscad. You can download the tool at the Bricscad Tools page. Written as an Bricscad SDS application, DOSLib extends the AutoLISP programming language by providing the following functionality:

  • Drives: Check for drives, change between drives, and check available disk space.
  • Paths: Manipulate path specifications.
  • Folders: Create, rename, remove, select, and change folders. Return special operating system folders.
  • Files: Copy, delete, move, rename, and select files; get directory listings, search and find multiple instances of files, and change file attributes.
  • Print: Get and set default printers, and spool print files.
  • Configuration: Manipulate Windows-style initialization (INI) files, and access the Windows Registry.
  • Processes: Run internal OS commands or other programs.
  • Interface: Get strings, integers, reals, and lists from the user. Display Windows message boxes, progress meters, and splash screens.
  • Strings: Tokenize strings, extract characters, find characters, insert, remove, and replace characters, and trim characters.
  • System: Get system information, sort lists, change the system date and time, manipulate the keyboard, and play sounds.

More info at the McNeel Wiki.

Bricsys launches three RSS channels
Gent, April 23, 2008

RSS

Bricsys launches three RSS channels. Keep up to date with the releases of Bricscad and Vondle and read the latest Bricsys news. RSS makes it possible for you to keep up with our web site and product news in an automated manner that can be piped into a RSS capable application. Read more...

New features and improvements in Bricscad V8.2
Gent, April 10, 2008

Version 8.2 of Bricscad comes with several new features and improvements: a Layer States Manager, a PDF export option, a new command DwgProps and the support of the latest Dwgdirect 2.5 library. There are also substantial performance improvements. Read more...

Bricsys' web site wins Adobe Site Of The Day award
Gent, March 14, 2008

Adobe Site Of The Day

Bricsys' web site wins Adobe Site Of The Day award. Adobe recognizes websites based on their use of strong visual designs, superior functionalities, and innovative uses of Adobe products. Adobe wants to give credit to the creative and engineering talent behind the scenes. You can view the showcase on the website of Adobe.

Release of the new e-Book: "Learn Bricscad V8 in a day", by Ralph Grabowski
Gent, January 21, 2008

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Learn Bricscad V8 in a Day is the reference book for users new to Bricscad V8. It teaches you how create drawings in a day -- seven chapters that each take about one hour to complete. The 198-page e-book is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, via email or on CD and can be bought in the Bricsys e-store.

About the author

Ralph Grabowski has authored and co-authored 100+ books on CAD management, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Generic CADD, IntelliCAD, MicroStation, TurboCAD, VDraft, Visio, HTML, and VRML. He is the editor of two e-newsletters, upFront.eZine and iCommunique. Mr Grabowski received his B.A.Sc ('80) degree in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia. He currently works and lives in the beautiful Central Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada.

You can visit his Web site at www.upfrontezine.com.

Release of the new e-Book: "Customizing Bricscad V8" by Ralph Grabowski
Gent, December 2, 2007

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This new e-Book is the standard handbook for those who want to get the best out of Bricscad V8. It contains 16 chapters spread over 401 pages.

Customizing Bricscad V8 is the reference book for customizing and programming Bricscad V8. The 421-page e-book is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, via email or on CD.
Bricsys includes this e-book free of charge with Bricscad V8 (for each new Pro English version bought since February 2008; not for upgrades). It can also be purchased in the Documentation section of the Bricsys e-store.

About the author

Ralph Grabowski has authored and co-authored 100+ books on CAD management, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Generic CADD, IntelliCAD, MicroStation, TurboCAD, VDraft, Visio, HTML, and VRML. He is the editor of two e-newsletters, upFront.eZine and iCommunique. Mr Grabowski received his B.A.Sc ('80) degree in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia. He currently works and lives in the beautiful Central Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada.

You can visit his Web site at www.upfrontezine.com.