Description
One continuous workflow
BricsCAD Ultimate is our all-in-one solution for designers, engineers, manufacturers, and contractors. It brings our CAD and BIM software together into one bundle, so multi-disciplinary organizations can benefit from a continuously developing workflow to work better together.
One platform
Move from concept to creation with all the tools you need to design, build and manufacture, all in one platform.
Compatibility
Improve productivity and remove errors with our single DWG file format for all technical disciplines.
Network licenses
With our shareable networked licence, you can buy or subscribe to BricsCAD Ultimate, and have complete flexibility across of our CAD, BIM & Mechanical software, ensuring you have the right tool for the task.
What’s included
With BricsCAD Ultimate, gain access to the full suite of BricsCAD products to meet your design needs within one, multi-purpose CAD platform.
BricsCAD Lite
2D CAD for fast and efficient drafting
Discover BricsCAD Lite
BricsCAD Pro
2D and 3D CAD to help you solve design problems faster
Discover BricsCAD Pro
BricsCAD BIM
A different approach to Building Information Modeling
Discover BricsCAD BIM
BricsCAD Mechanical
Advanced Mechanical Design tools for intelligent part, sheet metal and assembly design
Discover BricsCAD Mechanical
The all-in-one CAD with an all-in-one price
Our competitively priced BricsCAD Ultimate offers you all of our CAD software for a one-time fee, or an annual subscription.
Familiar and compatible CAD
BricsCAD is built entirely on the industry standard DWG format, with full command, script, macro, and menu compatibility. BricsCAD feels like home!
“The team unanimously opted for BricsCAD … Our draftsmen did not have to learn something completely new, and they could work productively with the knowledge they already had.”
Kristof Van Mol, IT Coordinator at Engels
BricsCAD Lite is highly compatible with AutoCAD® LT 2022
To move to BricsCAD, users do not need to change printers, templates, blocks, or sheet set layouts – they are fully compatible. Command names, aliases, and system variables are the same in BricsCAD as in AutoCAD®. BricsCAD is built on native DWG for the highest compatibility with other CAD users across all industries.
Macro/script compatible
Support file (.PC3, .LIN, .PAT, .DWT, .SSM) compatible
Based on 2018 DWG technology
AutoLISP support
BricsCAD Lite fully supports LISP, and it is compatible with AutoCAD’s AutoLISP format, making it simple to reuse existing routines. Our advanced BLADE LISP environment allows you to quickly develop customizations that can slash the time it takes for repetitive drafting tasks.
Why use LISP?
LISP routines are the easiest way to automate processes and workflows for bulk layer manipulations, changing entity properties, automate drawing and XREF relationships, standardize plotting, and publishing workflows, etc.
Intelligent and efficient 2D CAD
BricsCAD offers unique tools to help you get more work done quickly. With commands powered by advanced machine-learning technologies, users can accelerate tasks and remove hours of manual repetition.
Greater control over all drawing elements with Drawing Explorer
BricsCAD’s Drawing Explorer centralizes the many separate dialog boxes often found in other CAD platforms. BricsCAD is easy to navigate and easy to search.
Linetypes
Layer management
UCS control
External references
Blocks
Images
Section planes
+ much more…
Convert repeated geometry to Block Definitions
BLOCKIFY automatically creates a block definition and replaces all matching sets of entities with block references throughout your entire drawing. You can reduce DWG file size up to 90% by using BLOCKIFY to find repetitive geometry and converting it into block references.
The Quad: drawing, editing, and information near the cursor
BricsCAD’s unique Quad is a ‘head-up’ command palette that predicts your command usage and offers one-click access to the command you’ll likely need next. Powered by machine learning, the Quad predicts the commands you will need based on the unique way you use BricsCAD.
Automatically align copied entities
COPYGUIDED automatically aligns copied entities to relevant geometry using machine-generated guide curves. You can explicitly select entities to use as guide curves or let BricsCAD determine them based on the drawing elements in your selection.
High performance CAD
CAD should feel smooth and seamless, no matter how many millions of lines are in the file.
“BricsCAD is very fast and very stable. One of the things that we like about BricsCAD is that we can work with very large files.“
José Duarte – Civil Engineer at Noraqua
2.7x faster
Opening 500+ DWG files
Source: CadTempo and BricsCAD Performance
2.8x faster
Running advanced LISP routine
Source: BricsCAD’s LISP kicks sand in the face of AutoCAD’s
Take real advantage of multi-core CPU’s
BricsCAD supports multi-threaded, multi-processor operations to accelerate product performance for file loads, drawing generation, and rendering.
High-performance graphics engine
In each new version of BricsCAD, we strive to improve display performance. Enjoy smooth zoom and pan operations in drawings containing hundreds of thousands of entities.
PDF and BigTIFF underlays
We use a multi-resolution, persistent image cache to display PDF underlays, enabling super-fast zoom and pan operations. And BricsCAD’s raster engine delivers great pan and zoom performance, even with enormous 64-bit BigTIFF
Familiar and compatible CAD
BricsCAD is entirely based on the industry-standard DWG format, with full command, script, macro, and menu compatibility. BricsCAD feels like home!
“Adapting to BricsCAD was really easy. Within one week, we had made a full migration to BricsCAD: as if we had never changed our CAD platform at all.”
Dario Pibiri, mechanical engineer at Ecophos
BricsCAD® Pro is highly compatible with AutoCAD® 2022
To move to BricsCAD, users do not need to change printers, templates, blocks, or sheet set layouts – they are fully compatible. Command names, aliases, and system variables are the same in BricsCAD as in AutoCAD®. BricsCAD is built on native DWG for the highest compatibility with other CAD users across all industries.
Command compatible
Menu (.CUI, .CUIX) compatible
Macro/script compatible
Support file (.PC3, .LIN, .PAT, .DWT, .SSM) compatible
Based on 2018 DWG technology
AutoLISP and API support
BricsCAD fully supports LISP, slashing the time it takes to do repetitive drafting tasks. It’s compatible with AutoCAD® AutoLISP format, making it simple to re-use existing routines. It also features a powerful API, providing a platform for many industry-specific independent applications.
Why use LISP?
LISP routines are the easiest way to automate processes and workflows for bulk layer manipulations, changing entity properties, automate drawing and XREF relationships, standardize plotting, and publishing workflows, etc.
Explore the BricsCAD open CAD platform
BricsCAD Pro is the heart of the open BricsCAD design platform. It’s runtime eXtension (BRX) API enables you to develop your own bespoke apps, offering developers a powerful base on which to build great industry-specific solutions.
Applications for BricsCAD
We offer 400 partner applications on the BricsCAD Application Catalog, featuring specialized industry solutions across many disciplines, enabling you to get your work done easier, faster and more accurately.
Point Cloud Visualization
BricsCAD uses an improved data representation to speed up the performance of point cloud display, using half the disk space versus the point cloud source files. Point clouds in .ptx, .pts, .las and .rcp formats are pre-processed to our .vrm project file format in the background, on your machine. There is no productivity loss as you can continue working during the caching process.
Civil Engineering foundation
Civil design capabilities in the BricsCAD platform provide a solid basis for civil engineering, with a set of fundamental but powerful design tools and data connectivity for specialist app developers to create high value workflows for our customers.
Intelligent design tools
BricsCAD features unique AI-powered tools to help you do more faster. Intelligent commands help you automate manual tasks, optimize drawings, and assist user input, significantly reducing effort and increasing design productivity.
Parametric Blocks: a dynamic approach to creating 2D or 3D Blocks
Parametric Blocks automates repetitive tasks by allowing users to create one block instead of lots of similar, separate block definitions. You can create both 2D and 3D block definitions using the same set of tools and workflow that you are familiar with.
BLOCKIFY
This unique tool automatically converts repetitive sets of 2D or 3D drawing geometry to block definitions, instantly ensuring cleaner, higher-performing, and better organized drawings.
Optimize drawing quality
OPTIMIZE corrects your drawing issues by automatically finding and healing inconsistancies such as gaps and misalignments which may otherwise be difficult to see, improving drawing accuracy and giving you a cleaner, more efficient result.
Design freedom
BricsCAD offers unique capabilities providing you with the freedom to work the way you want to. With flexible licensing, the ability to freely flow in and out of 2D and 3D workflows, and our adaptable approach to 3D modeling, you are empowered to choose the best approach for you.
“BricsCAD allows us to do not only 2D drawing, but also 3D modeling. It’s certainly one of the modeling software products that will play a role in expanding our business”
Kazuki Hamada, Technical sales division AT Takamiya
Powerful variational 3D modeling
Our unique approach to 3D design combines the best of unconstrained direct modeling and parametric design worlds.
You’re free to express your creativity at the early design stage through dynamic direct modelling, interactively manipulating solid and surface geometry as you move your mouse. As the design evolves, you can add more dimensional control, or even fully parameterise the design, automatically, and all without the complexity imposed by a history-based approach.
High-performance CAD
CAD should feel smooth and seamless, no matter how many millions of lines are in the file.
“The pressure is on the whole time, and BricsCAD gives us the speed and reassurance that we need to be successful.“
Paul Schijfsma, Head of R&D at Stageco
2.8x faster
Running advanced LISP routine
Source: BricsCAD’s LISP kicks sand in the face of AutoCAD’s
2.7x faster
Opening 500+ DWG files
Source: CadTempo and BricsCAD Performance
Take real advantage of multi-core CPU’s
BricsCAD supports multi-threaded, multi-processor operations to accelerate product performance for file loads, drawing generation and rendering.
High performance graphics engine
In each new version of BricsCAD, we strive to improve display performance. Enjoy smooth zoom and pan operations in drawings containing hundreds of thousands of entities. BricsCAD uses the Redway3D graphics system to deliver great display performance for 3D graphics.
PDF and BigTIFF underlays
We use a multi-resolution, persistent image cache to display PDF underlays, enabling super-fast zoom and pan operations. And BricsCAD’s raster engine delivers great pan and zoom performance, even with enormous 64-bit BigTIFF files.
Multi-CAD Connectivity
Bring CAD data from many other formats seamlessly into BricsCAD with Communicator for BricsCAD. Easily and quickly build it into your assemblies, modify it via direct modelling, or make it intelligent by applying parameters.
Import and export all types of files with BricsCAD
Available by default in BricsCAD:
SketchUp® (import)
ACIS SAT
Images (TIFF, JPEG, etc.)
Communicator for BricsCAD®
A BricsCAD add-on to seamlessly import 3D geometry and PMI data from all major CAD applications.
Import and export other file formats for:
Inventor
SOLIDWORKS
Catia
STEP
Siemens NX
Creo
IGES
and more…
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Communicator for BricsCAD is an extra-cost module that works with BricsCAD Pro, BIM, Mechanical and Ultimate
A flexible platform for 2D, 3D designs, and BIM
BricsCAD BIM is built on the familiar BricsCAD system, so you can leverage the 2D drafting tools as you ease into 3D workflows at your own pace. Enjoy the flexibility to create simple 3D designs, import or produce BIM for collaborations, or model with accuracy for construction and fabrication.
AI-driven
In BricsCAD BIM, design decisions come first, and machine learning algorithms automate the laborious tasks of manipulating BIM data, documentation, and levels of detail.
2D & 3D
You can find a flexible, direct building-modeling tool and a professional CAD product in the same DWG platform. Design geometry can directly be converted to BIM elements.
CAD software
A safe path to BIM for CAD users without the disruption of learning a traditional BIM system. Spending less on software and training while avoiding performance dips during transition lowers the barriers to entry.
For BIM
BricsCAD BIM leverages the power of solid CAD modeling that supports flexible design, BIM, and the accuracy needed by engineers and manufacturers, opening the possibility of linking BIM with fabrication workflows in the BricsCAD Ultimate package.
The BricsCAD BIM workflow
Discover how BricsCAD BIM enables a streamlined workflow for design, construction, and fabrication in a single DWG environment.
Modeling freedom
Experience the freedom to model with a 3D workflow unrestricted by pre-defined parts or library components. Use intuitive push-pull direct modeling to sculpt your mass-model concept. Your model remains light and responsive because it’s not overloaded or over-constrained.
“If you’re an engineer who is used to working in 2D, it is much easier to start working in 3D with BricsCAD than with any other tool, because you can just follow the same intuitive pattern.”
Hristo Guentchev, Managing Director at Prototyp
Quick floor plans
BIMQUICKDRAW takes sketching into the 3D realm. You can create and modify 3D room layouts as easily as sketching out a 2D floor plan. Creating and editing rectangular and L-shaped rooms and buildings has never been so fast.
Create a BIM from a solid massing model
BIMQUICKBUILDING supports iterative and generative design workflows, quickly transforming a solid massing model into a conceptual BIM model with slabs, walls, and spaces — helping the designer to explore many design options in an early design phase.
Create Spaces and Zones
You have unlimited freedom to create Spaces and Zones, using a free-form direct modeling approach. Spaces can be simple or complex 3D volumes, or 2D abstractions. These methods deliver the freedom to specify building areas with full freedom.
Bi-directional link with Grasshopper
BricsCAD BIM modeler and McNeel’s Rhinoceros®/Grasshopper have a live, two-way link to bridge the gap between early-stage generative design and BIM by translating geometric entities into BIM elements.
Top View Mode
BricsCAD BIM gives you the ultimate flexibility of modeling your designs with direct modeling or the Top View Mode, which gives you the familiar experience of modeling in a plan view. Creating simple wall layouts with doors and windows has just become a lot more efficient in BricsCAD BIM.
Explore our third-party applications
The Bricsys Collective™ brings our premier third-party application developers together to offer the solutions for structural engineering and analysis, building mechanical systems, photoreal rendering, and algorithmic design.
Intelligent mechanical design
BricsCAD makes advanced mechanical design accessible, intelligent, flexible, and affordable, enabling greater design freedom.
“BricsCAD Mechanical has enabled our team to set even higher standards for structural and mechanical drawings”
Melvin Hamar, engineer at Asto Shipyard
BricsCAD’s unique variational 3D modeling approach gives you the freedom to design how you want to, from concept to detail, with whatever level of parametric control you need. Quickly develop complex stand-alone components or directly within an assembly.
Design parts and components
With BricsCAD Mechanical, the design process is simple. Start your design with a 2D sketch, then extrude, revolve or sweep it to create a 3D solid. You can also use built-in 3D primitives to specify the initial shape of your part. Move on to the details using extrusions, fillets, chamfers, Boolean operations, and edit using dynamic direct modeling. You control as much or as little of the form as you like with parameters. You can also import 3D solids and edit them as native components.
Flexible 3D modeling
Our unique 3D design approach combines dynamic and interactive direct modeling with the ability to add parameters only where needed and without the complexity of a history-based approach.
3D parametrize and constraints
The PARAMETRIZE AI workflow turns parts into smart, parameter-driven components in seconds. Build constraint systems, drive parts formulaically, build table-driven components, and change component parameters in the BricsCAD Properties Panel.
Copy features
Model features once and use them many times with powerful tools that copy existing features in 3D solids such as holes, ribs, and pockets.
Efficient 2D detailing
BricsCAD offers the best and most familiar workflow for turning your mechanical designs into production drawings.
Drawing views
Automatically create drawing views of your 3D parts and assemblies and detail views easily with dimensions and annotations. If your 3D model changes, generated drawing views are updated automatically.
Section views
Detail views
BOM table
Balloons
Fast generation of draft-quality drawings
Speed up drawing layout using fast, draft-quality views and use multi-core CPUs to create detailed views in record time. BricsCAD Mechanical is responsive to your inputs during background drawing generation.
Automatic drawing update
Drawing views remain associated with the 3D model. Change a single part, subassembly, or the whole assembly, and all 2D drawing views are automatically updated, allowing fast design iterations and changes.
Section views
You can create section views of 3D parts and assemblies. Section planes can be defined by a line drawn on a base view, or you can create more complex sections: half sections, offset sections, and aligned section views.
Detail views
BricsCAD Mechanical allows you to automatically create detail views from any existing view in your drawing layout.
Bill of Materials table
The BOM panel lets you manage multiple BOM tables in your drawings. You can format each column individually, set up equations, sort tables, and more.
Balloons
BricsCAD Mechanical creates associative balloons for each component in an assembly and manages the display of those tags in all automatically generated 2D views.
Mechanical symbols and annotations
NEW
All the 2D detailing annotations you need, from datums and geometric tolerances to surface finishes to weld symbols and representations, are available at your fingertips to quickly create 2D production drawings.
Power Dimensions
NEW
The POWERDIM tool intelligently creates the right dimension for the selected geometry, including fits and tolerances, making dimensioning your drawing views effortless.
AutoCAD Mechanical compatibility
NEW
Easily open, edit, and reuse symbols and annotations in your drawings created in AutoCAD Mechanical.