IRRICAD Link brings irrigation system design to BricsCAD! Lincoln Agritech Limited, of Christchurch, New Zealand is announcing a major upgrade to IRRICAD – the world’s leading irrigation system design CAD (computer-aided design) software. IRRICAD...
Author - Don Strimbu
Don Strimbu
Paper Space Layouts in BricsCAD
Creating Paper Space Layouts in BricsCAD Why use paper space? Here’s the #1 Rule of CAD: all geometry gets created at full (1:1) scale. You draw in model space (MSPACE), and you can use the VPORTS command to create different views of your...
Customizing Tool Palettes in BricsCAD
It’s easy to customize BricsCAD Tool Palettes! What are tool palettes? They are dockable, graphical panels that contain commands, hatch patterns, or blocks for insertion – or all three! To use a palette object, click the tool and move...
Scaffolding Design & Detailing: PON CAD
Scaffolding design, simplified When you design scaffolds in 2D, it’s a laborious process at best. Scaffolds must conform to the building while safely supporting people and equipment loads. Often the scaffolding itself is a complex 3D entity; a...
New BricsCAD Release for Mac OS X
There’s a new release of BricsCAD – V17.2.09 – for Mac OS X For those of you who know BricsCAD, you know that we support Windows, Linux and Mac OS X operating systems. But seriously, when was the last time that you were actually...
Choosing BricsCAD Hardware for Best Performance
More cores or more Ghz? The answer may surprise you. Did you read the “CadTempo and BricsCAD Performance” post series written by Patrick Hughes? He’s the author of CadTempo, and he found some really interesting performance numbers...
CadTempo and BricsCAD Performance – Part 3
Patrick Hughes, owner of Engineered Design Solutions and builder of CadTempo completes his BricsCAD performance story here in Part 3 of this post. In this installment, Patrick discloses the amazing BricsCAD performance numbers he quantified through...
CadTempo and BricsCAD Performance – Part 2
Patrick Hughes, owner of Engineered Design Solutions and builder of CadTempo continues his BricsCAD performance story here. In this installment, Patrick dives deep into the scripting engine built into CadTempo… A Tale of… Whoa! (Part II)...
CadTempo and BricsCAD Performance – Part 1
Patrick Hughes is the owner of Engineered Design Solutions, a machine design company located in Rockford, Illinois in the US. Patrick developed CadTempo – a suite of products that track and measure CAD utilization, user tasks and activities...
BricsCAD Platinum Changes Everything
BricsCAD Platinum is the future of .dwg-based CAD BricsCAD Platinum will change the way you think about .dwg-based CAD today. Have you heard that mechanical design and Building Information Modeling can’t be done in a .dwg-based CAD system...