BricsCAD represents the future of design. It is the all-in-one solution for 2D, 3D, Mechanical Design and Building Information Modeling. Based on industry-standard DWG, BricsCAD brings a modern yet familiar approach to design on Windows, macOS and Linux-based PCs. BricsCAD is available as a single installer in six license levels: Classic, Pro, Platinum, BIM, Mechanical and Ultimate, so that you can buy exactly what you need.
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BricsCAD |
AutoCAD |
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Classic | Pro | Platinum | BIM | Mechanical | Ultimate | LT | Full | |
Drawings | ||||||||
Native DWG File Format (thru AutoCAD 2021) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Password Protection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Status Bar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Workspaces | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Lockable Interface | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Clean Screen Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Drawing Explorer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Customizable User Interface (CUI) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Structure Browser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Selection, Snap & Track | ||||||||
Selection Filtering (QSELECT) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Add Selected | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Select Similar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Selection Cycling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Entity Snaps (Osnaps) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Polar Tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Zintersection 3D snap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Nearest Distance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Adaptive Gridsnap | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Real-time Boundary Detection | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
2D Dynamic UCS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
3D Dynamic UCS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Drawing Tools | ||||||||
Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multiline and Multiline Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Eliptical Arc | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Helix | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
2D Parameters, Constraints | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Annotation Tools | ||||||||
Text, Multi-line Text, Text Styles, Text Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dimensions, Dimension Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-leaders, Multi-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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Data Extraction | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Data Linking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Annotation Scaling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Spell Check | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Editing Tools | ||||||||
Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Fillet, Chamfer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
CopyGuided | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Grip Edit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Properties Panel | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Manipulator (3D Gizmo) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Draworder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Reference Tools | ||||||||
Blocks, Block Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dynamic Blocks | ✓(1) | ✓(1) | ✓(1) | ✓(1) | ✓(1) | ✓(1) | ✓ | ✓ |
Block Face Camera | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Blockify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Associative Arrays | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
PDF Attach, Clip | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Point Cloud Preprocess, Attach, Crop, Colormap | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Visualization Tools | ||||||||
Layers and Layer States | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Transparency | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Visual Styles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
LookFrom (ViewCube™) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Match Perspective | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Lights | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Sun Properties | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Materials | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Render | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Animation Editor | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Walkthrough Navigation | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
ANIPATH Command | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Modeling Tools | ||||||||
ACIS Modeling | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Soild and Surface Modeling | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Solid Primitives | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Mesh Primitives | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Polysolid | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Twist | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | |
Fillet, Chamfer | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Slice | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Multi-slice | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
T-Connect, L-Connect, Connect with Nearest | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Extract Edges | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Direct Modeling | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Deformable (Freeform) Modeling | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Audit, Simplify, Stitch | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
3D Parameters, Constraints | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
3D Autoparametrize | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
3D Parametric Design Tables | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Section Planes | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Drawing Views | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Civil Tools | ||||||||
TIN Surface Modeling | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
TIN Volume Surface | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Grading | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Alignments | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Civil 3D Object Enabler | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Architectural Desktop Object Enabler | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
CADWorx Object Enabler | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Architectural Tools | ||||||||
BIM Features | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Structural Modeling Toolset | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Project Database | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Library Database | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Site, Building and Stories | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Windows and Doors | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Fully Parametric Window Creation | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | x |
Rooms (Spaces) | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
3D Rooms | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Quickdraw | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | x |
Propagate | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | x |
Mechanical Tools | ||||||||
Mechanical Browser | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Parts Library | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Assembly Modeling | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Exploded Views | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Kinematic Analysis | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Bill of Materials | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Sheet Metal | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
SMEXTRUDE Command | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
SMRIBCREATE Command | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
3D Solids Conversion to Unfoldable Sheet Metal Parts | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Lofted Bends | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Coloring | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Batch Processing | x | x | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
IFC Import, Export | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | ✓ |
3DM Import, Export | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
LandXML Import, Export | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
RFA Import | x | x | x | ✓ | x | ✓ | x | x |
SKP Import | x | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
DGN Import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
DWF Export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
SVG Export | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
FBX Export | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
STL Export | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Additional formats available with BricsCAD Communicator |
x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Programming | ||||||||
ActiveX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Entity Data Editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Script Recorder | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
DCL Engine | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
COM API | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
VBA DVB Projects Support | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
.NET | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
BRX (ARX) | x | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | ✓ |
TX (Teigha eXtensions) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
CUI Menu Files Support, with Diesel Expressions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Licensing | ||||||||
Multi-platform Licenses | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Perpetual | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Perpetual + Maintenance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Subscription | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Network Multi-user | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Volume (Perpetual) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | x | x |
Academic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
(1) You can manipulate dynamic block insertions but you cannot create dynamic block definitions. |