BricsCAD Feature Comparison

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Drawings
Native DWG file format (thru AutoCAD 2021)✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
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✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
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✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Grip Edit✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Properties Panel✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Manipulator (3D Gizmo)✅✅✅✅✅❌✅
Draworder✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Reference Tools
Blocks, Block Editor✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Dynamic Blocks11111✅✅
Block Face Camera✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
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 Parametric Design Tables❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
Section planes❌✅✅✅✅❌✅
Drawing Views❌✅✅✅✅❌✅
Civil Tools
TIN Surface Modeling❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
TIN Volume Surface❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
Grading❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
Alignments❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
Civil 3D Object Enabler✅✅✅✅✅❌✅
Architectural Desktop Object Enabler✅✅✅✅✅❌✅
CADWorx Object Enabler✅✅✅✅✅❌✅
Architectural Tools
BIM features❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Structural Modeling Toolset❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Project Database❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Library Database❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Site, Building and Stories❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Windows and Doors❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Fully Parametric Window Creation❌❌✅❌✅❌❌
Rooms (Spaces)❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
3D Rooms❌❌✅❌✅❌✅
Quickdraw❌❌✅❌✅❌❌
Propagate❌❌✅❌✅❌❌
Mechanical Tools
Mechanical Browser❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
Parts Library✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Assembly Modeling❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Exploded Views❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Kinematic Analysis❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Bill of Materials❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Sheet Metal❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
SMEXTRUDE Command❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
SMRIBCREATE Command❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
3D Solids Conversion to Unfoldable Sheet Metal Parts❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Lofted Bends❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Coloring❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
Batch Processing❌❌❌✅✅❌❌
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❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
RFA Import❌❌✅❌✅❌❌
SKP Import❌✅✅✅✅❌❌
DGN Import✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
DWF Export✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
SVG Export✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
FBX Export✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
STL Export✅✅✅✅✅❌✅
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✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Licensing
Multi-platform Licenses✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Perpetual✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Perpetual + Maintenance✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Subscription✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
Network Multi-user✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Volume (Perpetual)✅✅✅✅✅❌❌
Academic✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
(1) You can manipulate dynamic block insertions but you cannot create dynamic block definitions.