As announced on 23 October, 2018 at the opening session of the 2018 Bricsys Conference, Hexagon has acquired Bricsys. Bricsys will operate in the Hexagon PPM division. Hexagon and Bricsys were previously working together, most notably with last years announcement…
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If you do any presentation with or screen captures from your CAD application, you may have the need to quickly change background colors for various reasons. This post from about 9 years ago, includes some lisp code to do this…
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CAD Panacea will be represented at the following upcoming CAD conferences. October 23-24, 2018 – Bricsys Conference, London, UK R.K. McSwain will be attending the conference. Look for updates here and on Twitter. October 29 – Nov 2. 2018 –…
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In case you haven’t seen them, the new features in Revit 2019 are listed here. Favorite Feature #1: Levels in 3D View. Seriously, where has this been all of our Revit lives? I read somewhere that users are already frustrated…
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Don Strimbu of Bricsys will be leading a “Special” (his word) BricsCAD Unplugged session this morning, 2018-SEP-12, at 0700 PDT (1400 UTC/GMT) Might there be a special guest? Lynn Allen surprised us with an appearance last time. Check it out on…
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As of this morning, we are 205 days (~6.5 months) away from Midwest University 2019, presented by CTC. What is Midwest University? A gathering of CAD, BIM, Manufacturing and other professionals, exhibitors, and expert instructors from all over the country….
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GeoLocationPlus from DotSoft is a low cost add-on that adds GeoLocation functionality to BricsCAD Pro (Windows version), AutoCAD 2014 and earlier, as well as IntelliCAD, and ZWCad. For AutoCAD 2015 and later, GeoLocationPlus expands the functionality of the Geolocation tools…
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If you are a Civil 3D user and you see a strange icon next to your cursor during certain operations, you are not alone. It seems to be an issue in Civil 3D 2019, and it looks like a tiny…
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It was brought to our attention in this forum thread, (and confirmed in this Autodesk KB article) that certain DIESEL expressions in fields are not evaluated in DWG Trueview, resulting in missing information. If you use such data in your…
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Last week, I was working with a group of people who are not CAD users. One of them received a 6.7MB .DWG file from a partner. I was asked how to view this file. Rather than downloading and installing any…
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