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BricsCAD Lite

High-performing CAD for 2D drafting and detailing

BricsCAD Lite

Bricsys Reseller

BricsCAD Lite offers a superior set of 2D CAD drafting tools, perfect for architectural firms and construction companies accustomed to working with traditional drafting tools. BricsCAD takes the familiar interface your drafters already know from AutoCAD but adds numerous features and go-anywhere compatibility.  It's easy for people to transition their skills from AutoCAD to BricsCAD Lite, then go on to discover all its powerful new features.  Because BricsCAD works natively in the industry-standard DWG format, all your existing project files can be opened directly, with no need for conversion!

AI-driven features such as Nearest Distance calculations and Copy Guided make BricsCAD Lite the ultimate in 2D CAD drafting.

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BricsCAD is a DWG-based 2D CAD software with a lightweight platform so you can easily view, edit, mark up, and publish design data in multiple file formats.

BricsCAD Lite Benefits

Fully compatible with industry-standard DWG
Open and view DWG files of any size from legacy CAD drawings to complete data reviews, 2D drawings, and document publishing.

Comprehensive 2D drafting tools
Rapidly create preliminary design schemes and layouts, easily referenced by colleagues also using BricsCAD products.

Familiar, user-friendly CAD
Transition seamlessly to a familiar user interface combining intuitive features for 2D design with flexible, cost-effective licensing options.

AI-driven productivity tools
Maximize productivity with BricsCAD unique commands, removing repetition from workflow tasks.

What can you do with BricsCAD Lite?

Review and edit drawings in BricsCAD Lite

Review and edit drawings

Quickly review and edit CAD data with multi-file compatibility using intelligent drafting tools for easy collaboration across teams.

Optimize drawings from clients and suppliers with BricsCAD Lite

Optimize drawings from clients and suppliers

Enhance performance and efficiency when receiving data from clients and suppliers: easily resolve issues, remove unwanted duplications, and ensure clean drawings.

Give occasional users a shareable license with BricsCAD Lite

Give occasional users a shareable license

Grant access to DWG-based CAD to stakeholders who need it occasionally, with scalable, cost-effective network licensing.

Unlock the power of LISP with BricsCAD Lite

Unlock the power of LISP

Deploy existing LISP routines to benefit from scripts already created in legacy-CAD software, accelerating workflows by quickly automating routine tasks.

Increase your productivity with intelligent design tools

Explore BricsCAD's AI-enhanced features to optimize 2D drawing workflows with intelligent automation for optimal drawing performance.

BLOCKIFYBLOCKIFY

For higher-performing DWG drawings, BLOCKIFY automatically converts 2D entities and 3D solids to block definitions. Locate repetitive 2D and 3D entities or geometry to match existing blocks, convert repeated solids to blocks, and autodetect nested blocks.

COPYGUIDEDCOPYGUIDED

COPYGUIDED copies an entity, and the guide-curve geometry selected, to align, flip, snap, and trim a copied entity automatically and accurately to other entities with pre-selected guide curves. You can quickly replace, repair, or erase entity geometry across a drawing without manual fixes and repetition.

QUADQUAD

QUAD is a user-intuitive, AI-based palette for one-click access to common draft and design commands. QUAD removes repetitive actions as it learns the unique tools and processes you use, appearing dynamically at the cursor to offer information about entities, drawings, and editing functions.

2D AUTOCONSTRAIN2D AUTOCONSTRAIN

In one click, 2D AUTOCONSTRAIN applies parameters and constraints intelligently and automatically. You can apply geometric and dimensional controls from the Parameters Manager panel for fast design changes and easy reuse.

DWGHEALTHDWGHEALTH

DWGHEALTH streamlines drawings by combining multiple, intelligent BricsCAD commands in one drawing health tool. Use PURGE, AUDIT, SIMPLIFY, OVERKILL, BLOCKIFY, and OPTIMIZE to minimize drawing size, remove unused elements, and enhance quality for better performance.

BricsCAD's comprehensive 2D toolset allows users to create professional 2D geometry, modify existing data, and annotate files using a unified set of commands within one application.

2D Drafting Tools

Blocks and Symbol Libraries
Eliminate repetitive workflows and maintain consistency across drawings by using predefined block libraries to reuse common details.

Text and Annotation Tool
Communicate design intent effectively using 2D CAD text and annotations from the comprehensive library of text, symbols, measurements, and labels.

Familiar, user-friendly CAD
Transition seamlessly to a familiar user interface combining intuitive features for 2D design with flexible, cost-effective licensing options.

Industry-standard DWG format
Open existing AutoCAD® files and re-use data:

  • Fully compatible with printers, templates, blocks, or sheet set layouts
  • Easy data migration
  • Support file compatibility: PC3, LIN, DWT and SSM

Easy transition: quick to learn for full productivity
Remove transition uncertainty with intuitive and smart features:

  • Upskill from your professional CAD knowledge
  • User-friendly interface: familiar design space to transition team
  • Integrated workflow with automated tasks
  • Simple and proven migration from other CAD platforms

AutoLISP compatible: run and re-use AutoCAD®’s routines
Integrate your in-house LISP routines into BricsCAD to automate processes and workflows, bringing efficiency to drafting:

  • Reuse existing routines simply
  • Develop customized LISP routines to remove repetitive tasks
  • Access automation tools library from applications catalog

Read and use existing Dynamic Blocks
BricsCAD supports your existing library of AutoCAD®’s dynamic blocks. You can:

  • Edit the custom properties in the Properties panel
  • Use custom properties of all parameter types and visibility states in fields
  • Grip-edit dynamic blocks
  • Speed up viewing and editing parameters with Rollover tips

Convert Dynamic Blocks into Parametric Blocks
Preserve the dynamic functionality of AutoCAD®-native Dynamic Blocks with BricsCAD’s BLOCKCONVERT from the easy-to-use dialog box. Supporting common block features, the command lists and converts blocks, and controls output options.

Manage and optimize sheet sets with Sheet Set Manager
Use the Sheet Set Manager to set up accurate CAD documentation for a project’s lifecycle, with productivity features to speed up deliverables.

Compare BricsCAD to AutoCAD

BricsCAD offers a whole new world for those who venture beyond the AutoCAD® horizon. Among its growing community of users, BricsCAD is best known for its feature-rich combination of 2D drawing and 3D modeling.

BricsCAD Lite BricsCAD Pro AutoCAD
LICENSING
Multi-platform licenses
Perpetual
Perpetual + Maintenance
Subscription
Network Multi-user
Volume (Perpetual)
Academic
DRAWINGS
Native DWG format
Password Protection
eTransmit
Sheet Set Manager
Geographic Location
Drawing Compare
Cloud Collaboration
INTERFACE
Dark & Light Color Themes
Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables
Command Line
Start tab
File (Drawing) 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
Structure Browser
Layout Manager
SELECTION, SNAP & TRACK
Selection filtering
Add Selected
Select similar
Selection cycling
Entity Snaps
Polar Tracking
Zintersection 3D snap
Nearest distance
Adaptive Gripsnap
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, Elliptical 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, Multi-leader Styles
Hatches, Gradients, Hatch/Gradient Editor
Wipeouts
Revision Clouds
Attributes, Attribute Editor
Tables, Table Styles
Fields
Data Extraction
Data Linking
Annotation Scaling
Spell Check
EDITING TOOLS
Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align
Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join
Fillet, Chamfer
CopyGuided
MoveGuided
Grip Edit
Properties Panel
Manipulator (3D Gizmo)
Draworder
Undo Per Entity (Property History)
Optimize
Simplify
REFERENCE TOOLS
Blocks, Block Editor
Dynamic Blocks
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 Blockify and Parametric Blockify
3D Parametric Design Tables
Section planes
Drawing Views
3D Threads
Point Cloud Align
Point Cloud Bubble Viewer
CIVIL TOOLS
TIN Surface Modeling
Civil Points
TIN Volume Surface
Grading
Alignments
Profiles (Vertical Alignments)
Corridors
Civil 3D Object Enabler
Boundary Trim
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
Import Autodesk Civil 3D Data
RFA Import
SKP Import
DGN Import
RVT Import
DWF Export
SVG Export
FBX Export
STL Export
Point Cloud Export (.LAS and .PTS)
Point Cloud import (.LAS, .LAZ, .PTS, .PTX, e57, .RCS, and .RCP
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
Manufacturing Tools
Mechanical Browser
Parts Library
Piping
Assembly Modeling
Exploded Views
Kinematic Analysis

BricsCAD Cost & Leasing Information

BricsCAD provides flexible licensing options so you can choose the best approach for you. BricsCAD software is available as a perpetual, subscription or network license.

Need to discuss volume discounts, purchasing options or want a formal quotation? Contact us at 866-824-4459.

Leasing is Available

Did you know that you can lease software, training, and consulting services? Leasing allows businesses to get the software and equipment they need without affecting bank or credit lines. No matter the type of business, you need the proper software and equipment to efficiently compete and flourish. That’s why we offer leasing options through Trio Capital.

Why Lease?

  • Conserve your working capital.
  • Simple application/approval process.
  • Finance installation and training costs in one lease.
  • Potential tax savings under IRS Section 179.
  • Fixed monthly payments throughout term.
  • Trade up to new equipment.
  • Competitive finance rates.

Have questions on BricsCAD or want to schedule a demo? We'd love to hear from you! Contact us in the way that works best for you, and we'll get back to you shortly.

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