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Applications for BricsCAD There are 400 partner applications on the BricsCAD Application Catalog, featuring specialized industry solutions across many disciplines, enabling you to get your work done easier, faster and more accurately.	Point Cloud Visualization BricsCAD uses an improved data representation to speed up the performance of point cloud display, using half the disk space versus the point cloud source files. Point clouds in .ptx, .pts, .las and .rcp formats are pre-processed to the .vrm project file format in the background, on your machine. There is no productivity loss as you can continue working during the caching process.	Civil Engineering foundation Civil design capabilities in the BricsCAD platform provide a solid basis for civil engineering, with a set of fundamental but powerful design tools and data connectivity for specialist app developers to create high value workflows for our customers.

Intelligent design tools

BricsCAD features unique AI-powered tools to help you do more faster. Intelligent commands help you automate manual tasks, optimize drawings, and assist user input, significantly reducing effort and increasing design productivity.

Parametric Blocks: a dynamic approach to creating 2D or 3D Blocks Parametric Blocks automates repetitive tasks by allowing users to create one block instead of lots of similar, separate block definitions. You can create both 2D and 3D block definitions using the same set of tools and workflow that you are familiar with.	BLOCKIFY This unique tool automatically converts repetitive sets of 2D or 3D drawing geometry to block definitions, instantly ensuring cleaner, higher-performing, and better organized drawings.	Optimize drawing quality OPTIMIZE corrects your drawing issues by automatically finding and healing inconsistancies such as gaps and misalignments which may otherwise be difficult to see, improving drawing accuracy and giving you a cleaner, more efficient result.
Automatically align copied entities COPYGUIDED automatically aligns copied entities to relevant geometry using machine-generated guide curves. You can explicitly select entities to use as guide curves or let BricsCAD determine them based on the drawing elements in your selection.	Autoconstrain 2D or 3D drawing elements When creating parametric 2D or 3D drawing elements, BricsCAD enables you to intelligently and automatically apply parameters and constraints with just one click, applying geometric control quickly and easily for fast design changes and reuse.	The Quad: drawing, editing, and information near the cursor BricsCAD’s unique Quad is a 'head-up' command palette that predicts your command usage and offers one-click access to the command you’ll likely need next. Powered by machine learning, the Quad predicts the commands you will need based on the unique way you use BricsCAD.

Design freedom BricsCAD offers unique capabilities providing you with the freedom to work the way you want to. With flexible licensing, the ability to freely flow in and out of 2D and 3D workflows, and our adaptable approach to 3D modeling, you are empowered to choose the best approach for you. Powerful variational 3D modeling BricsCAD's unique approach to 3D design combines the best of unconstrained direct modeling and parametric design worlds. You’re free to express your creativity at the early design stage through dynamic direct modelling, interactively manipulating solid and surface geometry as you move your mouse. As the design evolves, you can add more dimensional control, or even fully parameterize the design, automatically, and all without the complexity imposed by a history-based approach.

High-performance CAD CAD should feel smooth and seamless, no matter how many millions of lines are in the file. 2.8x faster - Running advanced LISP routine 2.7x faster - Opening 500+ DWG files Take real advantage of multi-core CPUs - BricsCAD supports multi-threaded, multi-processor operations to accelerate product performance for file loads, drawing generation and rendering. High performance graphics engine - In each new version of BricsCAD, you will enjoy improved display performance. Enjoy smooth zoom and pan operations in drawings containing hundreds of thousands of entities. BricsCAD uses the Redway3D graphics system to deliver great display performance for 3D graphics. PDF and BigTIFF underlays - BricsCAD uses a multi-resolution, persistent image cache to display PDF underlays, enabling super-fast zoom and pan operations. And BricsCAD’s raster engine delivers great pan and zoom performance, even with enormous 64-bit BigTIFF files.

What's New

Improved functionality and compatibility

• New out of the box experience - Improved user experience with an intuitive set-up for new installs of BricsCAD.
• Dynamic Block Convertor - PARAMETRICBLOCKASSIST command converts dynamic blocks to BricsCAD’s superior Parametric Blocks. (BETA)
• Parametric Blockify for 2D Geometry - The Parametric BLOCKIFY command now recognizes plain 2D geometry variations of parametric blocks with 2D parameters, constraints, and flip lines.
• Large table performance - Increased usability and performance when working with large tables.
• Sheet Set Manager - The SHEETSET command offers a variety of new, time-saving functionality.
• PUBLISH Dialog - New updated user experience when using the PUBLISH dialog.
• PURGE Dialog - Improved usability for PURGE command with new dialog feature.
• OPTIMIZE 2D - Refinements to the OPTIMIZE command to fix small gaps between arcs and lines faster and more effectively.
  
  

New tools, features & performance enhancements

• Drawing Recovery Manager - DRAWINGRECOVERY command provides reassurance of recovering a drawing quickly in the event of an unforeseen issue.
• Drawing Health Management - Brings together all existing optimization tools in a single, convenient place to make it easier to keep drawings healthy.
• Improved Tool Palettes Panel - TOOLPALETTES command now has a new user experience for the Tool Palettes Panel.
• Command Assist Ribbon Panel - AI-powered assist ribbon panel suggests commands a user will likely need next based on typical workflow patterns.
• Express Tools - Express Tools, a popular third-party app, is now part of the native functionality of BricsCAD.
• Ribbon Foundation (Qt) - BricsCAD's Ribbon UI has been completely reworked to provide a better user experience.

Optimized commands and workflows

• CONNECT - The CONNECT command joins two entities not touching.
• ARRANGE - A new user-interface and performance enhancements improve the usability of the ARRANGE command.
• FINDOUTLIERS - The FINDOUTLIERS command helps users find stray data that lies outside of their primary drawing area, improving graphic performance.
• BLOCKIFY - BLOCKIFY now detects repetitive elements more accurately, thanks to our new symmetry-detection engine.
• COPYGUIDED3D - We’ve improved the flexibility of the COPYGUIDED3D command, allowing users to apply the command to model faces.

Civil and Survey

• TIN Surface Manager Panel - Manage TIN surfaces with a new user-interface for existing SIMPLIFY commands.
• GRADING - The GRADING workflow is enhanced to ease target surface changes and delivers better information about boundaries created by grading operations.
• TIN Densify - BricsCAD's unique TIN Densify workflow has been optimized to speed up the creation of high-density surface regions.
• HSPC native format support - Introducing support for Hexagon Standard Point Cloud format, providing closer integration with wider Hexagon solutions.
• Import and export SHP file - Import and export GIS data with ESRI’s SHP file format.
• GISEXPORT - The GISEXPORT workflow now supports the export of pure CAD geometry (i.e., without specific attached GIS data) into a SHP file.

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