BricsCAD Pro contains all the functionality of BricsCAD Lite, plus 3D modeling and parametrics, standard part libraries, a rendering engine, a materials library, and an Autodesk AutoCAD ObjectARX-compatible development system that supports hundreds of third-party application programs.

It reads and writes native DWG, and offers a LISP API for customization and the automation of repetitive tasks.

BricsCAD Lite (' BricsCAD Classic' in V20 and below) is designed and optimized for 2D drafting workflows.

With the release of V21, all BricsCAD Platinum functionality was moved to BricsCAD Pro, and the Platinum Edition was deprecated.

Prior to the release of V21, a sixth edition called BricsCAD Platinum was available. Today, BricsCAD is available for the Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems, and comes in five, workflow-centric Editions. In 2018, Bricsys nv was acquired in full by Hexagon AB of Sweden.Įxample of the BricsCAD user interface, with a 3D model in the workspace. Bricsys is a founding member of the Open Design Alliance, and joined the BuildingSMART International consortium in December 2016. Bricsys is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium, and has additional development centers in Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk, Russia Bucharest, Romania and Singapore. In 2011 Bricsys acquired the intellectual property rights from Ledas for constraints-based parametric design tools, permitting the development of applications in the areas of direct modeling and assembly design. The company was founded in 2002 by Erik de Keyser, a longtime CAD entrepreneur. BricsCAD is a software application for computer-aided design (CAD), developed by Bricsys nv.

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