BricsCAD Pro | Ciratech

Professional, familiar DWG‐based 2D & 3D CAD with AI‐driven productivity tools.

Professional 2D & 3D CAD

without compromise

Familiar and Compatible CAD

BricsCAD is built on the industry-standard DWG format, offering full compatibility with commands, scripts, macros and menus. It's designed to feel familiar and intuitive from day one.

What is BricsCAD Pro?

BricsCAD Pro is a versatile CAD platform offering comprehensive tools for 2D drafting, 3D modeling and BIM capabilities. It’s ideal for professionals in architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), mechanical design and manufacturing.

Why Use BricsCAD Pro?

BricsCAD Pro is the core technology of the open BricsCAD design platform. It’s runtime extension (BRX) API enables you to develop your own bespoke apps, offering developers a powerful base on which to build great industry-specific solutions.

BricsCAD Pro 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 an adaptable approach to 3D modeling, you can choose the best approach for you.

Transitioning to BricsCAD is seamless users don’t need to change printers, templates, blocks, or sheet set layouts, as they are fully compatible. Command names, aliases, and system variables are identical to those in AutoCAD®, making the switch effortless for experienced users. BricsCAD is built on native DWG, ensuring top-level compatibility with other CAD software across industries.

Your custom assets are the key to unlocking productivity gains, especially for your users.

Command compatible
Menu (.CUI) compatible
Macro/Script compatible
XTP Tool Palettes
.DWT templates and DST sheet sets
PC3 plotters and page setups
Full Visual LISP API. LSP/ARX, Lisp VB/.NET
AutoCAD® compatible

By supporting these formats, you can bring your workflows into BricsCAD directly with little to no effort.

Additionally, BricsCAD fully supports LISP, slashing the time it takes to do repetitive drafting tasks. It is compatible with AutoCAD AutoLISP format, making it simple to re-use existing routines. It also features a powerful API, providing a platform for many industry-specific independent applications.

Easy to learn, easy to switch to - if you can use AutoCAD, you can already use BricsCAD!

Who Uses BricsCAD Pro?

Professionals drafting 2D deliverables or creating 3D solid models, who seek an economical, innovative and flexible CAD solution to enhance productivity while reducing costs.

Industries served

• Oil & gas
• Petrochemicals
• Chemicals
• Pharmaceuticals
• Food & beverage
• Water

• Power - Nuclear/non-Nuclear
• Mining
• Semiconductor
• Marine
• Utilities
• Infrastructure/AEC/BIM

Benefits of BricsCAD Pro

Seamless 2D Drafting and 3D Modeling:

Integrated 2D and 3D Environment: BricsCAD Pro allows users to work seamlessly between 2D drafting and 3D modeling within a single application. This integration enhances productivity by eliminating the need for multiple software platforms.
Familiar CAD Interface: The software provides a familiar interface for users transitioning from other CAD platforms, reducing the learning curve and allowing for quick adoption.
Direct and Parametric Modeling: With both direct modeling and parametric design features, BricsCAD Pro empowers users to create and modify models effortlessly, while preserving design intent.

Full DWG Compatibility:

Native DWG Support: BricsCAD Pro uses the DWG file format as its native format, ensuring compatibility with other CAD software and facilitating easy collaboration with clients, partners and stakeholders.
Bi-directional Data Exchange: Users can import and export DWG files without any data loss, ensuring that design information is preserved across different platforms and software environments. Open and edit DWGs created in AutoCAD LT or AutoCAD and vice versa.
Industry Standard: The reliance on DWG files makes BricsCAD Pro a viable alternative for firms seeking to maintain industry standards without switching file formats. Existing AutoCAD configurations can be reused.

Cost-Effective and Flexible Licensing:

Affordable Pricing: BricsCAD Pro is a cost-effective alternative to other CAD solutions, offering powerful features at a competitive price point, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Flexible Licensing Options: BricsCAD Pro offers both perpetual and subscription licensing models, allowing organizations to scale effortlessly as projects grow. Licences are not named user supporting both full-time and occasional use. No geographical licence restrictions - one licence for planet Earth.
Network Licensing: BricsCAD Pro supports network licensing, enabling firms to manage software deployment efficiently across multiple users.

Advanced Productivity Tools:

AI-Powered Features: Features like BLOCKIFY and QUAD Cursor automate repetitive tasks, recognize patterns and optimize drawing productivity—enabling users to focus on design rather than manual work.

BLOCKIFY: This tool can automatically convert repetitive geometry into blocks, reducing file size and improving performance.
QUAD Cursor: Provides context-sensitive commands based on the user's cursor position, streamlining workflow by offering relevant tools without navigating menus.
Command Customization: Users can customize commands and create custom tool palettes, allowing for a tailored workflow that aligns with specific project needs.
Design Automation: BricsCAD Pro offers scripting capabilities using LISP, VBA and APIs, enabling automation of repetitive tasks and integration with other systems.

Comprehensive 3D Modeling Features:

Direct 3D Modeling: BricsCAD Pro’s dynamic push-pull geometry simplifies the creation of complex shapes and surfaces without predefined constraints.
Parametric Constraints: The software supports geometric and dimensional constraints, enabling the creation of parametric models that maintain relationships between components.
Surface Modeling: Users can create and edit complex surfaces, enhancing the ability to design intricate details and organic shapes.

Efficient Collaboration and Integration:

Multi-Platform Support: BricsCAD Pro is available on Windows, macOS and Linux, providing flexibility for teams working across different operating systems and ensuring accessibility for a wide range of users.
Cloud Integration: The software integrates with Bricsys 24/7, a cloud-based collaboration platform that allows users to share files, manage projects and collaborate in real-time.
Support for Industry Standards: BricsCAD Pro supports various industry-standard file formats, including DXF, DGN and IFC, enabling seamless collaboration and data exchange with other software.

Extensible and Adaptable:

Extensible: An open API enables custom programs and LISP routines and other scripting languages to be developed to automate repetitive tasks, address customer-specific workflows or deliverables requirements.
Developer Ecosystem: Supported by an extensive developer network offering many added value add-in applications.•

Enhanced Visualization and Rendering:

Realistic Rendering: BricsCAD Pro offers advanced rendering capabilities, allowing users to create photorealistic images of their designs for presentations and client reviews. This helps in visualizing design concepts effectively.
Dynamic UCS: The software includes a dynamic UCS (User Coordinate System) feature that automatically aligns the workspace with the geometry being edited, making it easier to work in 3D.
Visualization Tools: BricsCAD Pro provides powerful visualization tools, such as dynamic sections, exploded views and real-time shading, which aid in understanding complex designs and assemblies.

Training, Support and Upgrades:

Comprehensive Support: Bricsys offers extensive technical support, assisting users with troubleshooting, software updates and best practices to ensure smooth operation and maximize productivity.
Training and Resources: Users have access to a variety of training resources, including tutorials, webinars, documentation and an active user community, to help them fully leverage the capabilities of BricsCAD Pro.
Continuous Development: Bricsys is committed to continuous software development, regularly releasing updates and new features based on user feedback and industry trends, with updates released annually.

BricsCAD Pro software is a versatile and robust CAD platform that offers a wide range of features for 2D drafting, 3D modeling and design automation. Its seamless integration of 2D and 3D workflows, full DWG compatibility and advanced productivity tools make it an ideal choice for professionals across various industries, including architecture, engineering and manufacturing. By using BricsCAD Pro, teams can streamline their workflows, reduce costs and enhance collaboration, ultimately contributing to the success of their projects.

BricsCAD Pro is highly compatible with AutoCAD®

AutoLISP support

To move to BricsCAD, users do not need to change printers, templates, blocks, or sheet set layouts – they are fully compatible. Command names, aliases and system variables are the same in BricsCAD as in AutoCAD. BricsCAD is built on native DWG for the highest compatibility with other CAD users across all industries.

Command compatible
Menu (.CUI, .CUIX) compatible
Macro/script compatible
Support file (.PC3, .LIN, .PAT, .DWT, .SSM) compatible
Based on 2018 DWG technology

BricsCAD fully supports LISP, slashing the time it takes to do repetitive drafting tasks. It is compatible with AutoCAD AutoLISP format, making it simple to re-use existing routines. It also features a powerful API, providing a platform for many industry-specific independent applications.

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Why use LISP?

LISP routines are the easiest way to automate processes and workflows for bulk layer manipulations, changing entity properties, automate drawing and XREF relationships, standardize plotting and publishing workflows, etc.

Intelligent and Efficient CAD

BricsCAD offers unique tools to help you get more work done quickly. With commands powered by advanced machine-learning technologies, users can accelerate tasks and remove hours of manual repetition.

Greater control over all drawing elements with Drawing Explorer

BricsCAD's Drawing Explorer consolidates multiple dialog boxes often found in other CAD platforms. BricsCAD is easy to navigate and easy to search.
• Linetypes
• Layer management
• UCS control
• External references • Blocks
• Images
• Section planes
• + much more...

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 with which you are familiar.

Automatically align copied entities

BLOCKIFY

Optimize drawing quality

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 corrects your drawing issues by automatically finding and healing inconsistencies such as gaps and misalignments which may otherwise be difficult to see, improving drawing accuracy and giving you a cleaner, more efficient result.

Auto-constrain 2D or 3D drawing elements

QUAD

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.

When creating parametric 2D or 3D drawing elements, BricsCAD enables you to apply parameters and constraints intelligently and automatically 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 Quad is a unique 'head-up' command palette that predicts your command usage and offers one-click access to the possible. Powered by machine learning, the Quad predicts the commands you will need based on the unique way you use BricsCAD.

Point cloud visualization

Civil engineering foundation

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 our .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 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.

High-performance graphics engine

In each new version of BricsCAD, we strive to improve display performance. Enjoy smooth zoom and pan operations in drawings containing hundreds of thousands of entities.

PDF and BigTIFF underlays

We use 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.