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BricsCAD® V16
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AutoCAD®
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| File Features |
| Native .dwg 2013 file format |
✓ |
✓ |
| .dwg for AutoCAD version 2.5 to
2016 |
✓ |
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| Password protection |
✓ |
✓ |
| Lock files |
✓ |
✓ |
| Xrefs in place editing |
✓ |
✓ |
| PDF underlays |
✓ |
✓ |
| Export to PDF using style tables |
✓ |
✓ |
| Export to DWF 2D & 3D |
✓ |
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| Export to SVG |
✓ |
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| DAE import/export (XML 3D data) |
✓ |
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| User File Manager |
✓ |
✓ |
| eTransmit |
✓ |
✓ |
| WORKSETS command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Sheet set manager |
✓ |
✓ |
| Chapoo® (upload, share, view,
annotate documents in the cloud) |
✓ |
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| Communicator extended CAD file
import/export (Option) |
✓ |
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| Interface
Elements |
| Documents tabs |
✓ |
✓ |
| CUI menus and toolbars |
✓ |
✓ |
| Ribbon |
✓ |
✓ |
| Workspaces |
✓ |
✓ |
| Visual menu customization |
✓ |
✓ |
| Extended Quad cursor 2D/3D |
✓ |
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| Entity creation with Quad |
✓ |
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| LookFrom widget (view orientation) |
✓ |
✓ |
| Tool palettes |
✓ |
✓ |
| Industry standard commands |
✓ |
✓ |
| Command Line with auto completion |
✓ |
✓ |
| Extended Drawing Explorer |
✓ |
✓ |
| Searchable Settings Manager |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Selection,
Snap & Track |
| Selection preview |
✓ |
✓ |
| Quick Select tool |
✓ |
✓ |
| ADDSELECTED command |
✓ |
✓ |
| SELECTSIMILAR command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Cycling through entities or
subentities during selection |
✓ |
✓ |
| Hot grips for multiple grip points
modification |
✓ |
✓ |
| eSnap |
✓ |
✓ |
| SnapTrack™ & Polar tracking |
✓ |
✓ |
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| 3D Modeling |
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| 3D surfaces |
✓ |
✓ |
| ACIS viewing |
✓ |
✓ |
| Full ACIS modeling & editing |
✓ |
✓ |
| Direct 3D modeling |
✓ |
✓ |
| Polysolids (walls, slabs, …) |
✓ |
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| Hardware library (more than 30.000
standard parts) |
✓ |
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| Geometric 3D constraints creation |
✓ |
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| Geometric 3D constraints solving |
✓ |
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| Design intent |
✓ |
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| Visual styles |
✓ |
✓ |
| Section planes |
✓ |
✓ |
| Generated views |
✓ |
✓ |
| HELIX command |
✓ |
✓ |
| SWEEP command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Surface entity creation |
✓ |
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| Deformable Modeling |
✓ |
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| Lofting |
✓ |
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| Geometry Healing |
✓ |
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| Support for Photometric Lighting |
✓ |
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| Powerful rendering engine |
✓ |
✓ |
| 600 high definition render
materials |
✓ |
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| Walkthrough navigation |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Mechanical Design Functionality |
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| Mechanical browser |
✓ |
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| Assemblies import (10) |
✓ |
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| Assembly modeling (hierarchical
component organization) |
✓ |
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| Assembly viewing |
✓ |
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| Assembly constraints |
✓ |
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| Kinematic analysis |
✓ |
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| Bill of materials |
✓ |
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| Sheet Metal (Option) |
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| Sheet metal design |
✓ |
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| 3D solids conversion to unfoldable
sheet metal parts |
✓ |
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| Corner relief for adjacent edge
flanges |
✓ |
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| Lofted Bends |
✓ |
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| Coloring |
✓ |
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| Diagnostic for invalid sheet metal
features |
✓ |
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| Batch Processing |
✓ |
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| Building Information Modeling (BIM) |
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| BIM features |
✓ |
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| Project database |
✓ |
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| Library database |
✓ |
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| Windows and doors |
✓ |
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| Rooms |
✓ |
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| IFC import |
✓ |
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| SketchUp import |
✓ |
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| IFC export |
✓ |
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| Dimensioning |
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| Dynamic dimensions |
✓ |
✓ |
| Associative dimensions |
✓ |
✓ |
| Association of an existing
dimension to an entity |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dimension text in place editing |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dimensional 2D constraints |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dimensional 2D constraints using
expressions |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Text |
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| Multi language character set |
✓ |
✓ |
| In place WYSIWYG MTEXT editor |
✓ |
✓ |
| MTEXT via internal or external
editor |
✓ |
✓ |
| Multi column text |
✓ |
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| Stacked text |
✓ |
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| QLEADER command (leader and leader
annotations) |
✓ |
✓ |
| MLEADER |
✓ |
✓ |
| Annotative Styles |
✓ |
✓ |
| Spelling |
✓ |
✓ |
| Fields |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Hatch |
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| Gradient hatches |
✓ |
✓ |
| Custom patterns |
✓ |
✓ |
| HATCHEDIT command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Hatch grip edit |
✓ |
✓ |
| Trim/extend of/to hatch pattern
entities |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Raster images |
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| Raster image support (clipping,
transparency, …) |
✓ |
✓ |
| Support for ECW and JPEG2000 |
✓ |
✓ |
| Support for MrSID |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Other Features |
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| Real time pan & zoom |
✓ |
✓ |
| Support for 3Dconnexion mouse |
✓ |
✓ |
| Multithreaded display regeneration |
✓ |
✓ |
| Non rectangular viewports |
✓ |
✓ |
| ALIGNSPACE command (alignment
between model and paperspace) |
✓ |
✓ |
| CONVERTPOLY command |
✓ |
✓ |
| MVSETUP command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Preview filter |
✓ |
✓ |
| Layer preview |
✓ |
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| Transparency |
✓ |
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| Layer States Manager |
✓ |
✓ |
| Layer filters |
✓ |
✓ |
| Multilines and multiline styles |
✓ |
✓ |
| Array dialog |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dynamic Arrays |
✓ |
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| Data extraction wizard |
✓ |
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| Block insertion from drawing |
✓ |
✓ |
| Block attribute definition manager |
✓ |
✓ |
| Block attribute redefinition |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dynamic blocks support (4) |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dynamic blocks grip editing |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dynamic input |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dynamic UCS (temporarily switch to
surface of 3D solid) |
✓ |
✓ |
| Real time boundary detection |
✓ |
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| Edit properties of multiple
entities |
✓ |
✓ |
| Tables & table styles |
✓ |
✓ |
| Formulas in table cells |
✓ |
✓ |
| SOLPROF command |
✓ |
✓ |
| FLATSHOT command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Geometric 2D constraints |
✓ |
✓ |
| User Profile Manager |
✓ |
✓ |
| Web map service |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Printing |
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| CTB & STB table files |
✓ |
✓ |
| PC3 printer configuration files |
✓ |
✓ |
| Import & editing of page setups |
✓ |
✓ |
| PUBLISH command |
✓ |
✓ |
| Shade plot for paperspace and
modelspace viewports |
✓ |
✓ |
| Layout printing with combinations
of viewports and visual styles |
✓ |
✓ |
| Layout export |
✓ |
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| Publish to PDF |
✓ |
✓ |
| Export to STL (3D printing) |
✓ |
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| Printer calibration |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Programming |
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| ActiveX, including in place editing |
✓ |
✓ |
| Entity data editor |
✓ |
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| Script recorder |
✓ |
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| Full LISP support (vl, vlr, vla and
vlax) |
✓ |
✓ |
| LISP encryption |
✓ |
✓ |
| Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS) |
✓ |
✓ |
| DCL engine |
✓ |
✓ |
| COM API |
✓ |
✓ |
| .NET |
✓ |
✓ |
| BRX (BricsCAD Runtime eXtension) |
✓ |
ARX |
| TX (Teigha eXtensions) |
✓ |
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| CUI menu files support, with Diesel
expressions |
✓ |
✓ |
| Legacy menu MNU and MNS file
support |
✓ |
✓ |
| API for toolbar and menu
customization |
✓ |
✓ |
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| Licensing |
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| Multi platform licenses |
✓ |
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| Perpetual Licenses |
✓ |
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| Single User |
✓ |
✓ |
| All In / Subscription |
✓ |
✓ |
| Network Licenses |
✓ |
✓ |
| Defined Volume License Program |
✓ |
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| Academic |
✓ |
✓ |
