Ghent, Belgium, September 30, 2008: CraniMAX Successfully Ports Crane Software to Bricscad V9

Bricsys Offers Vondle Free to Everyone
2008-10-10

Bricsys Inc. announces the release of Vondle Trial, a fully SaaS-based project and data management system. By subscribing to Vondle Trial, customers can use all Vondle features free of charge for 30 days. Vondle is a SaaS (software as a service) system requiring only a compatible browser, user ID and password. It is 100% compatible with most popular browsers, such as, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari Read more...

CraniMAX Successfully Ports Crane Software to Bricscad V9
2008-09-30

Bricsys and Germany-based craniMAX announce that the craniMAX software portfolio has been successfully ported to Bricscad V9. With Bricscad V9, the software enables a realistic representation of resource scheduling and provides collision detection. This ensures that tower cranes do not collide with any obstacles, even as changes occur on the work site. Read more...

IFD Library Project Chooses Vondle for Managing Documents
2008-09-22

Merrimack NH, September 22, 2008. The IFD Library Group -- a division of the buildingSMART organization -- has chosen Bricsys Vondle technology to manage the IFD Library project.

IFD is the International Framework for Dictionaries, a standard for ontologies used by buildingSMART technology. The IFD Library project is derived from internationally-accepted open standards developed by ISO. The library was developed by international teams in the USA and Europe, provides flexibility for IFC-based building information models (BIM), because it allows links between models and multiple databases with project and product data.

To manage the huge IFD project, team members use Vondle from Bricsys. Members of all teams can access the most recent version of all documents 24/7. Vondle takes care of versioning and logging of all user actions. Vondle's powerful, yet easy-to-use workflow, allows complex processing of reviews and approvals. Read more...

Bricsys Releases BRX SDK
2008-09-15

Merrimack NH, USA and Gent, Belgium, September 15, 2008 - Bricsys today released its all-new BRX SDK software development kit. Independent developers can port their ARX-based applications to Bricscad V9 simply by recompiling their source code. This enables applications to run on two different DWG platforms using the same source code. Read more...

Bricsys releases Bricscad V9 and enables now professional DWG based engineering applications
2008-09-08

Gent, Belgium - Merrimack NH, US, September 8, 2008. Bricsys announces the release of Bricscad V9, the latest version of its flagship product. Already since a while, Bricscad is the preferred 2D and 3D CAD platform for those users who want to extend their number of professional CAD seats or just want to replace other expensive CAD licenses.

Bricscad V9 is a milestone version in several ways. First of all, there are a ton of improvements on existing features and many new added features like the in-place WYSIWYG MText editor, REFEDIT, Associative Dimensioning, Wipe-out, Transparency, support of ECW images - just to name a few of a long list. The performance as well is boosted again.
Bricscad V9 is offering now a complete and recognizable feature set to the professional CAD users.

But Bricscad V9 is certainly a milestone version because it can support for the first time all DWG applications, including those applications developed with ARX, thanks to the Bricscad BRX Software Developer Kit. Developers of DWG based applications can now port their CAD and engineering applications to the code compatible platform of Bricscad V9.

Bricsys - together with more than hundred application developers - is now bringing applications for AEC, GIS, Civil and Mechanical Engineering to a huge DWG community that is looking for more affordable engineering solutions without giving up functionality.
Thanks to the extended list of available compatible API's (LISP, SDS, COM, BRX), Bricscad V9 is now the preferred platform for application developers to port their AutoCAD® based application to. Each application extends the Bricscad V9 feature set to a new level.

By enabling DWG based solutions in every engineering domain, Bricsys now finally can offer freedom in the decision process. From Bricscad V9 onwards, the DWG world does have a real choice: Bricscad V9 combines professional engineering solutions with a fair and transparent pricing model and a user-friendly upgrade policy.

Bricscad V9 uses the DWG-direct libraries of the Open Design Alliance (ODA), reads and writes the native DWG format and offers compatibility with AutoCAD® 2009.

Bricsys will announce more details about BRX later this month.

Kemper GmbH bundles Bricscad V9 with their KEMPER KHS Hygiene System software
2008-09-01

Bricsys announces a volume contract with German based Kemper GmbH for Bricscad V9 in combination with the application developer Dendrit Haustechnik-Software GmbH.

Kemper GmbH has chosen Bricscad V9 as the CAD platform that will be bundled together with the calculation software of Dendrit GmbH for engineering offices specialized in designing high standard sanitary installations. Bricscad V9 serves as the CAD platform on which the Dendrit application is running for calculating cold and warm drinking water installations. This frame contract contains an initial order of one thousand licenses of Bricscad V9. Read more...

Bricscad V9: enabling solutions
2008-08-25

Bricsys announces Bricscad V9, the secure path to engineering solutions. Bricscad V9 has an impressive set of new features and substantially improved performance. Bricscad V9 now brings applications for AEC, GIS, Civil and Mechanical Engineering to the DWG community.

Bricscad V9 features

Major, one-year life-cycle releases such as Bricscad V9 include many new features. Below are some powerful new features that were most frequently requested by Bricscad V8 customers:

  • Associative Dimensions
  • Reference Edit
  • In-place WYSIWYG mtext editor
  • Quick Select
  • Wipe Out
  • Many important performance improvements
  • BRX API: recompile and run existing ARX code without adaptations (requires Bricscad Pro)

Bricscad V9: the solutions platform

It is crucial that the DWG CAD platform of your choice provides perspective for the tasks today and tomorrow, either in AEC, GIS, Mechanical or in Civil Engineering. Bricsys is glad to announce that Bricscad V9 has received enthousiastic support and acceptance by application developers worldwide.

As a start, during the month of September 2008, Bricsys will announce more than 20 professional applications ported from AutoCAD® to Bricscad V9. And that's just the beginning of a long list to come. Each application enhances the feature set of Bricscad V9, bringing the preferred DWG alternative to the level of professional engineering.

The English version of Bricscad V9 will be officially released in September 2008. Starting today, the beta version of Bricscad V9 is available for download.

DOSLib available for Bricscad V8
Gent, April 29, 2008

DOSLib, is a library of AutoLISP-callable functions that provides a variety of Windows operating system capabilities to Bricscad. You can download the tool at the Bricscad Tools page. Written as an Bricscad SDS application, DOSLib extends the AutoLISP programming language by providing the following functionality:

  • Drives: Check for drives, change between drives, and check available disk space.
  • Paths: Manipulate path specifications.
  • Folders: Create, rename, remove, select, and change folders. Return special operating system folders.
  • Files: Copy, delete, move, rename, and select files; get directory listings, search and find multiple instances of files, and change file attributes.
  • Print: Get and set default printers, and spool print files.
  • Configuration: Manipulate Windows-style initialization (INI) files, and access the Windows Registry.
  • Processes: Run internal OS commands or other programs.
  • Interface: Get strings, integers, reals, and lists from the user. Display Windows message boxes, progress meters, and splash screens.
  • Strings: Tokenize strings, extract characters, find characters, insert, remove, and replace characters, and trim characters.
  • System: Get system information, sort lists, change the system date and time, manipulate the keyboard, and play sounds.

More info at the McNeel Wiki.

Bricsys launches three RSS channels
Gent, April 23, 2008

RSS

Bricsys launches three RSS channels. Keep up to date with the releases of Bricscad and Vondle and read the latest Bricsys news. RSS makes it possible for you to keep up with our web site and product news in an automated manner that can be piped into a RSS capable application. Read more...

New features and improvements in Bricscad V8.2
Gent, April 10, 2008

Version 8.2 of Bricscad comes with several new features and improvements: a Layer States Manager, a PDF export option, a new command DwgProps and the support of the latest Dwgdirect 2.5 library. There are also substantial performance improvements. Read more...

Bricsys' web site wins Adobe Site Of The Day award
Gent, March 14, 2008

Adobe Site Of The Day

Bricsys' web site wins Adobe Site Of The Day award. Adobe recognizes websites based on their use of strong visual designs, superior functionalities, and innovative uses of Adobe products. Adobe wants to give credit to the creative and engineering talent behind the scenes. You can view the showcase on the website of Adobe.

Release of the new e-Book: "Learn Bricscad V8 in a day", by Ralph Grabowski
Gent, January 21, 2008

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Learn Bricscad V8 in a Day is the reference book for users new to Bricscad V8. It teaches you how create drawings in a day -- seven chapters that each take about one hour to complete. The 198-page e-book is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, via email or on CD and can be bought in the Bricsys e-store.

About the author

Ralph Grabowski has authored and co-authored 100+ books on CAD management, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD®, Generic CADD, IntelliCAD, MicroStation, TurboCAD, VDraft, Visio, HTML, and VRML. He is the editor of two e-newsletters, upFront.eZine and iCommunique. Mr Grabowski received his B.A.Sc ('80) degree in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia. He currently works and lives in the beautiful Central Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada.

You can visit his Web site at www.upfrontezine.com.

Release of the new e-Book: "Customizing Bricscad V8" by Ralph Grabowski
Gent, December 2, 2007

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This new e-Book is the standard handbook for those who want to get the best out of Bricscad V8. It contains 16 chapters spread over 401 pages.

Customizing Bricscad V8 is the reference book for customizing and programming Bricscad V8. The 421-page e-book is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, via email or on CD.
Bricsys includes this e-book free of charge with Bricscad V8 (for each new Pro English version bought since February 2008; not for upgrades). It can also be purchased in the Documentation section of the Bricsys e-store.

About the author

Ralph Grabowski has authored and co-authored 100+ books on CAD management, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD®, Generic CADD, IntelliCAD, MicroStation, TurboCAD, VDraft, Visio, HTML, and VRML. He is the editor of two e-newsletters, upFront.eZine and iCommunique. Mr Grabowski received his B.A.Sc ('80) degree in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia. He currently works and lives in the beautiful Central Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, Canada.

You can visit his Web site at www.upfrontezine.com.

Bricscad uses the highly compatible Open Design Alliance libraries to read/write DWG files.