BricsCAD 13 Platinum

BricsCAD 13 Platinum enables 3D parametric solid modeling for users who want to work both in 2D and 3D without leaving the .dwg environment. Primitives such as box, cylinder, cone, sphere, torus and wedge are available together with extrude, revolve and sweep operations. By combining these through Boolean operations – union, subtract, intersect – the user can form complex composite solid shapes.

• X-solids captures the history of solids as they are created, allowing parametric editing of these solids at any time. Any primitive parameter can be easily changed.
• X-Tools and QuickDraw allows to form complex composite solid shapes and automatically creates and aligns 2D geometry for up to 10 views at once for easily created detail drawings.
• X-Hardware Extended 3D library with parametric objects of all kinds – nuts, bolts, screws, pins, and more – are instantly created or resized at the touch of a button.
• ACIS kernel performs fast solid modeling operations and accurate hidden line removal.

ACIS (Solid Modeling) Kernel

Performs fast solid modeling operations and accurate hidden line removal.

Powerful 3D Render Engine (Windows only)

BricsCAD 13 Platinum has an extremely powerful rendering engine allowing to work in permanent render mode. Materials and lights can be created and edited in the Materials section of the Drawing Explorer.

Dynamic Input and Dynamic Dimensions

Dynamic Dimensions are available while creating /editing entities. With the new DYNMODE button it can be switched ON/OFF. When moving a grip point, all related dimensions are displayed in real time and can be modified on the fly with Dynamic Input.

Materials

Materials are defined by the different color settings and the settings such as glossiness, transparency, refraction index, self illumination and reflectivity. Materials can be detailed by selecting a bitmap under diffuse map and then be fine-tuned with the settings of the transparency map and the bump map. All maps then can be blended too, to get the exact look as you want.

PDF Underlay

Attach any PDF file to your drawing. You can snap to the geometry contained in the pdf.

Dynamic Blocks

You can insert dynamic blocks from your existing dynamic block libraries and adjust the custom properties and constraints in the Properties Bar.

Layer Preview

In the Layers section of the Drawing Explorer the content of each layer displays in the Preview pane.

Creation of separate Hatches

You can create separate hatches when clicking subsequent points to detect hatch boundaries or when you select multiple closed entities to be hatched.

eBridge to Vondle (optional)

eBridge starts where eTransmit ends. With the bundle BricsCAD Platinum - eBridge Edition now connects to Vondle. eBridge and Vondle allow to manage, view, share, log all file versions of a CAD project and much more. eBridge connects automatically with the Vondle servers and uploads the selected files. Files already on the server are checked automatically on modifications. This is just one of the many automated processes, guaranteeing control on integrity.

Reference Editing

The Refedit tool allows to edit the content of external references (Xrefs) and block inserts from within the current drawing, which is referred to as in-place reference editing. RefEdit either works on a portion of the reference which you edit or on the entire drawing or all entities in the block. Nested blocks are detected automatically and presented in a tree view. A preview of each block or Xref helps you to select the correct object. The changes are saved back to the Xref source drawing or the block definition in the current drawing

Associative Dimensions

Dimensions are updated automatically when the geometry has changed. You can even dimension Model Space entities in Paper Space and see them being updated when you modify the entities in Model Space. Dimensions can now be linked to entity snap points such as endpoints, midpoints and perpendicular. Associative dimensioning applies to both linear and angular dimensions.

Settings Manager

In the Settings Dialog you can check or modify the current value of all settings. The settings can be viewed alphabetically or categorized, grouping related settings in a tree view. The built-in search feature lets you find settings quickly and intuitively. For each setting you get a short description, whether the setting is global or drawing specific and, if possible, a graphical preview.