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BricsCAD®Lite

BricsCAD®Pro

AutoCAD

Licensing
  • Multi-platform Licenses
  • Perpetual
  • Perpetual + Maintenance
  • Subscription
  • Network Multi-user
  • Volume (Perpetual)
  • Academic
Drawings
  • Native DWG file format (through AutoCAD 2022)
  • Password Protection
  • eTransmit
  • Sheet Set Manager
  • Geographic Location
  • Drawing Compare
  • Cloud Collaboration
Interface
  • Dark and Light Color Themes
  • Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables
  • Command Line (Autocomplete, Midstring, Clickable options)
  • Start tab
  • File (Drawing) tabs
  • Model and Layout tabs
  • Menu bar
  • Toolbars
  • Ribbon
  • Tool Palettes
  • Contextual Right-click Menus
  • Contextual Quad Menu
  • Status Bar
  • Workspaces
  • Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box
  • Lockable Interface
  • Clean Screen Mode
  • Drawing Explorer
  • Customizable User Interface (CUI)
  • Structure Browser
  • Layout Manager
Selection, Snap & Track
  • Selection Filtering (QSELECT)
  • Add Selected
  • Select Similar
  • Selection Cycling
  • Entity Snaps (Osnaps)
  • Polar Tracking
  • Zintersection 3D snap
  • Nearest Distance
  • Adaptive Gridsnap
  • Real-time boundary detection
  • 2D Dynamic UCS
  • 3D Dynamic UCS
Drawing Tools
  • Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline
  • Multiline and Multiline Styles
  • Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Eliptical Arc
  • Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point
  • Helix
  • 2D Parameters, Constraints
Annotation Tools
  • Text, Multi-line Text, Text Styles, Text Editor
  • Dimensions, Dimension Styles
  • Multi-leaders, Mult-leader Styles
  • Single and Multi-line text, Text Styles, Text Editor
  • Hatches, Gradients, Hatch/Gradient Editor
  • Wipeouts
  • Revision Clouds
  • Attributes, Attribute Editor
  • Tables, Table Styles
  • Fields
  • Date Extraction
  • Data Linking
  • Annotation Scaling
  • Spell Check
Editing Tools
  • Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align
  • Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join
  • Fillet, Chamfer
  • CopyGuided
  • MoveGuided
  • Grip Edit
  • Properties Panel
  • Manipulator (3D Gizmo)
  • Draworder
  • Undo Per Entity (Property History)
  • Optimize
  • Simplify
Reference Tools
  • Blocks, Block Editor
  • Dynamic Blocks
  • Camera-facing Blocks
  • Blockify
  • Associative Arrays
  • Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit
  • PDF Attach, Clip
  • Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency
  • Point Cloud Preprocess, Attach, Crop, Colormap
Visualization Tools
  • Layers, Layer States
  • Transparency
  • Visual Styles
  • LookFrom (ViewCube™)
  • Match Perspective
  • Lights
  • Sun Properties
  • Materials
  • Render
  • Animation Editor
  • Walkthrough navigation
  • ANIPATH command
Modeling tools
  • ACIS Modeling
  • Solid and Surface Modeling
  • Solid Primitives
  • Mesh Primitives
  • Polysolid
  • Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere
  • Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken
  • Twist
  • Fillet, Chamfer
  • Slice
  • Multi-slice
  • T Connect, L Connect, Connect with Nearest
  • Extract Edges
  • Direct modeling
  • Deformable (Freeform) Modeling
  • Audit, Simplify
  • Stitch
  • 3D Parameters, Constraints
  • 3D Autoparametrize
  • 3D Blockify and Parametric Blockify
  • 3D Parametric Design Tables
  • Section planes
  • Drawing Views
  • 3D Threads
  • Point Cloud Align
  • Point Cloud Bubble Viewer
Civil Tools
  • TIN Surface Modeling
  • Civil Points
  • TIN Volume Surface
  • Grading
  • Alignments
  • Profiles (Vertical Alignments)
  • Corridors
  • Autodesk Civil 3D Object Enabler
  • Boundary Trim
Import, Export, Output
  • Print/Plot
  • Publish/Batch Plot
  • CTB & STB Table Files
  • PC3 Printer Configuration Files
  • Named Page Setups
  • PDF Import, Export
  • DAE Import, Export
  • IFC Import, Export
  • 3DM Import, Export
  • LandXML Import, Export
  • Import Autodesk Civil 3D Data
  • RFA Import
  • SKP Import
  • DGN Import
  • RVT Import
  • DWF Export
  • SVG Export
  • FBX Export
  • STL Export
  • Point Cloud Export (.LAS and .PTS)
  • Point Cloud import (.LAS, .LAZ, .PTS, .PTX, e57, .RCS, and .RCP
  • Additional formats available with BricsCAD Communicator
Programming
  • ActiveX
  • Entity data editor
  • Script Recorder
  • Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax)
  • Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS)
  • DCL engine
  • COM API
  • Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • VBA DVB projects support
  • .NET
  • BRX (ARX)
  • TX (Teigha eXtensions)
  • CUI menu files support, with Diesel expressions
Building Tools
  • CAD-based BIM features
  • Structural Modeling Toolset
  • Project Database
  • Library Database
  • Site, Building and Stories
  • Windows and Doors
  • Fully Parametric BIM Component Creation
  • BOM Manager
  • 3D Spaces
  • Quickwall
  • Quickdraw
  • Point Cloud Floor Detection
  • Point Cloud Projection
  • Point Cloud Geometry Detection
  • Point Cloud FitPlanar (geometry detection)
  • Propagate
  • Custom BIM Properties
  • Graphical Override
  • Drawing Customizations
  • BIM Dimensions
  • Analytical Models
  • Python Scripts (Beta)
Manufacturing Tools
  • Mechanical Browser
  • Parts Library
  • Piping
  • Assembly Modeling
  • Exploded Views
  • Kinematic Analysis
  • Bill of Materials
  • Balloons associated with BOM and Drawing Views
  • Sheet Metal
  • 3D Solids Conversion to Unfoldable Sheet Metal Parts
  • Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges
  • Lofted Bends
  • Other features: Junctions, Miters, Tabs, Form Features
  • Coloring
  • Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features
  • Batch Processing