BricsCAD vs. AutoCAD Feature Comparison |
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BricsCAD |
AutoCAD |
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Lite |
Pro |
BIM |
Mechanical |
Ultimate |
LT |
Full |
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Drawings |
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Native DWG file format (thru AutoCAD 2021) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Password Protection |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
eTransmit |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Sheet Set Manager |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Geographic Location |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Drawing Compare |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Cloud Collaboration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Interface |
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Dark and Light Color Themes |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Command Line (Autocomplete, Midstring, |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Start tab |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
File (Drawing) tabs |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Model and Layout tabs |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Layout Manager |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Menu bar |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Toolbars |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Ribbon |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Tool Palettes |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Contextual Right-click Menus |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Contextual Quad Menu |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Status Bar |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Workspaces |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Lockable Interface |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Clean Screen Mode |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Drawing Explorer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Customizable User Interface (CUI) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Structure Browser |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Selection, Snap & Track |
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Selection Filtering (QSELECT) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Add Selected |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Select Similar |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Selection Cycling |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Entity Snaps (Osnaps) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Polar Tracking |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Zintersection 3D snap |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Nearest Distance |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Adaptive Gridsnap |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Real-time boundary detection |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
2D Dynamic UCS |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
3D Dynamic UCS |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Drawing Tools |
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Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Multiline and Multiline Styles |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Helix |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
2D Parameters, Constraints |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
2D Autoconstrain |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
2 |
2 |
Annotation Tools |
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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 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Data Linking |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Annotation Scaling |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Spell Check |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Editing Tools |
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Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Fillet, Chamfer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
CopyGuided |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
MoveGuided |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Grip Edit |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Properties Panel |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Manipulator (3D Gizmo) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Draworder |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Undo Per Entity (Property History) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Optimize |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Simplify |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Reference Tools |
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Blocks, Block Editor |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Dynamic Blocks |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
✓ |
✓ |
Block Face Camera |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Blockify |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Associative Arrays |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
PDF Attach, Clip |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Point Clouds Colormap |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Visualization Tools |
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Layers, Layer States |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Transparency |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Visual Styles |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
LookFrom (ViewCube™) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Match Perspective |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Lights |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Sun Properties |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Materials |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Render |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Animation Editor |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Walkthrough navigation |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
ANIPATH command |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Modeling Tools |
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ACIS Modeling |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Solid and Surface Modeling |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Solid Primitives |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Mesh Primitives |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Polysolid |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Twist |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Fillet, Chamfer |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Slice |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Multi-slice |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
T Connect, L Connect, Connect with Nearest |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Extract Edges |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Direct modeling |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Deformable (Freeform) Modeling |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Audit, Simplify |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Stitch |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
3D Parameters, Constraints |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
3D Autoparametrize |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
3D Blockify and ParametricBlockify |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
3D Parametric Design Tables |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Section planes |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Drawing Views |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
3D Threads |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Point Cloud Align |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Point Cloud Bubble Viewer |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Civil Tools |
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TIN Surface Modeling |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
TIN Volume Surface |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Grading |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Alignments |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Corridors |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Civil 3D Object Enabler |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Architectural Desktop Object Enabler |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
CADWorx Object Enabler |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Architectural Tools |
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BIM features |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Structural Modeling Toolset |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Project Database |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Library Database |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Site, Building and Stories |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Windows and Doors |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Fully Parametric BIM Component Creation |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
3D Spaces |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Quickdraw |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Quickbuilding |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Point Cloud Floor Detection |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Point Cloud Projection |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Point Cloud Geometry Detection |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Point Cloud FitPlanar (geometry detection) |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Propagate |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Custom BIM Properties |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Drawing Customizations |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Analytical Model |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Python Scripts (Beta) |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
Mechanical Tools |
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Mechanical Browser |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Parts Library |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Piping |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Assembly Modeling |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Exploded Views |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Kinematic Analysis |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Bill of Materials |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Sheet Metal Design |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
3D Solids to Sheet Metal Parts Conversion |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Lofted Bends |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Coloring |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Batch Processing |
o |
o |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Import, Export, Output |
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Print/Plot |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Publish/Batch Plot |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
CTB & STB Table Files |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
PC3 Printer Configuration Files |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Named Page Setups |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
PDF Import, Export |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
DAE Import, Export |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
IFC Import, Export |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
3DM Import, Export |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
LandXML Import, Export |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
RFA Import |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
SKP Import |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
DGN Import |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
RVT Import |
o |
o |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
o |
o |
DWF Export |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
SVG Export |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
FBX Export |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
STL Export |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Point Cloud Export |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Additional formats available with |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Programming |
|||||||
ActiveX |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Entity data editor |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Script Recorder |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
DCL engine |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
COM API |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
VBA DVB projects support |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
.NET |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
BRX (ARX) |
o |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
✓ |
TX (Teigha eXtensions) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
CUI menu files support, with Diesel expressions |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Licensing |
|||||||
Multi-platform Licenses |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Perpetual |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Perpetual + Maintenance |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Subscription |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Network Multi-user |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Volume (Perpetual) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
o |
o |
Academic |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
(1) You can manipulate dynamic block insertions but you cannot create dynamic block definitions. (2) You can automatically apply geometric constraints but you cannot automatically apply a combination of geometric and dimensional constraints. |