Bricsys announced a new application named BricsCAD Shape this week. BricsCAD Shape is a 3D conceptual modeling tool with a clean modern interface, that allows you to quickly capture your designs. The data in BricsCAD Shape is stored in the…
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If you use the system variables CDATE or DATE in your autolisp code in AutoCAD 2017 or later, you should know that Autodesk made an (at the time) undocumented change to these system variables. Prior to 2017 these sysvars returned…
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Under certain circumstances, Civil 3D 2017 can cause the DWG file size to grow with each save. If the user does not notice this, it can eventually render the drawing difficult or impossible to open. The file size increase is…
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If you ever experimented with adding, removing, or editing paths in the AutoCAD Options dialog on the Files tab, you may get into a state where you simply want to return a certain item to its default setting. You can…
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As announced at the recent Bricsys Conference in Paris last month, Chapoo has now been rebraded to Bricsys 24/7. Bricsys 24/7 is workflow automation, project management, a cloud based collaboration tool. Currently this is only a name change, but look…
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Bricsys has released BricsCAD v18 (specifically V18.1.04) this week. You can download it from their website, here. Some of the new features are listed below. File Format / General BricsCAD v18 now supports the 2018 version .DWG files. Civil 3D…
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On 25 October 2017, Bricsys held its annual Conference at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France. Users, CAD Media, Developers, Reseller Partners, and of course staff from Bricsys were all in attendance. As you can see in the video…
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CAD Panacea author R.K. McSwain will be attending the Bricsys 2017 Conference next week. Stay tuned for news from this conference, both here and on the CAD Panacea twitter page.
Whether you are new to AutoCAD, or a seasoned veteran, you might not be fully aware of all of the UI elements available to you. In this post, we will review the UI elements in AutoCAD 2018. Application Menu The…
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Although you can use the built-in plotstamp capability in BricsCAD, you may want to define your own, so that you can include a logo, or other data that is not possible with the default plotstamp. You can do this by…
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