Bricsys®, a Hexagon company, has released BricsCAD® v26, which is now available and supported in South Africa by Chempute. This V26 version of the CAD software platform offers over 60 new features to enhance performance, productivity, and automation across design, manufacturing, construction, and surveying disciplines.
“Designers around the globe are becoming increasingly frustrated with rigid licensing, high cost, a lack of meaningful innovation, and bundling policies that force them to pay for features they don't need,” says Cliff Brown, global product head for BricsCAD, in his launch presentation.
“They're not seeing the value of their investment and are actively seeking an alternative. BricsCAD is purpose-built to be that alternative: streamlining design production processes by enabling immediate use of standard design formats, providing advanced editing and optimisation tools, automating drawing generation and ensuring that documentation output meets the production and construction communication standards that businesses demand,” he continues.
“Smart, scalable and affordable, BricsCAD delivers real design productivity and altogether better value than traditional CAD software. It’s not simply an alternative; it’s the true CAD alternative,” he asserts.
Unique capabilities “that you won't find elsewhere”, he says, include:
Drawing health capabilities to clean up DWG files, automate file optimisation and streamline design data exchange between teams.
Innovative context-aware access to frequently used commands that adapt to what you're working on.
Power tools that accelerate design editing, annotation and detailing in the model or paper space.
Accelerated routines for key design and documentation workflows, including new block definitions, enhanced block creation and management capabilities, advanced credit editing, more intuitive direct manipulation of design elements, and section plane manipulations.
Improved tools for creating and managing section views, interference checking tools, new collision detection capabilities for 3D designs, attribute seeking and leader enhancements.
Better annotation and data management performance: “V 26 handles even the largest files with speed and reliability, all backed by expert support and our commitment to your success,” notes Brown.
“As part of our commitment to provide the solutions demanded by our clients, with V26, we’ve added the ability to edit 2D dynamic blocks created in AutoCAD. But going even further, we are thrilled to announce that BricsCAD now supports dynamic block creation as well. This represents a significant expansion of V26’s compatibility and design capabilities,” announces Chris Brown, before handing over to his technical team to unpack these new features in detail.
