What is BricsCADĀ®?

BricsCAD is a set of professional CAD and modeling tools
made for designers, innovators and engineers.
Without compromise.

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One Design Platform for everyone

All product levels of BricsCAD are built on a single design platform
offering 6 functional toolsets

Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

Powerful design platform

BricsCAD is a modern, high-performance DWG-based CAD platform that accelerates your 2D & 3D design and drafting workflows.

  • BricsCAD downloads and installs quickly, offering familiar CAD tools that will have you working comfortably in an hour
  • Innovative AI-powered features in BricsCAD can help you go from design to deliverable in record time
Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

Robust 2D drafting

Quickly create the detailed drawings you need to turn your designs into reality.

  • A familiar drafting experience that delivers command, script, macro, and menu compatibility with the industry-standard CAD software
  • BricsCAD LISP provides familiar customization capabilities, a visual editor and the highest overall performance
Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

Solid 3D Modeling

Innovative 3D modeling tools de-risk the move from 2D to 3D

  • Leverage what you already know to move from 2D to true 3D design
  • BricsCAD supports push/pull Direct Modeling, feature-based modeling and high-performance parametric modeling tools, so that you can work the way you want
Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

Civil & Surveying design

BricsCAD offers innovative civil and survey tools to accelerate preliminary design work for bidding and concept development.

  • Create lightweight terrain models without compromising on accuracy. With BricsCAD you can import point clouds and use our filtering tools to create an optimized TIN surface
  • Foundational out-of-the-box tools for grading, volume calculations and site design
Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

Point Clouds for building

Rapidly import and process point cloud scan data, to visualize as-builts and guide 3D model creation.

  • BricsCAD delivers rapid point cloud pre-processing and visualization of all standard point cloud formats
  • Create hybrid representations using point cloud data with 2D and 3D CAD geometry in a single file
Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

BIM tools in native DWG

Experience the power of professional 3D BIM tools, all within a familiar DWG-based system.

  • Move to a true open BIM workflow in hours, not weeks
  • Innovative AI-powered tools accelerate modeling, structural detailing, construction and fabrication processes
Available in
Lite
Pro
Mechanical
BIM
Ultimate

2D and 3D Mechanical design

Reduce time-to-market with BricsCADā€™s advanced mechanical toolset, built on our familiar CAD platform.

  • Powerful 2D drafting tools speed the creation of mechanical layouts, details and production drawings, all in a familiar user experience
  • Import and edit virtually any 3D design without complex history limitations using the innovative direct-modeling tools
  • Quickly convert 2D or 3D designs in presentations, assembly instructions, or complete and accurate production drawings

Make BricsCAD your own

BricsCAD offers a rich application ecosystem
and powerful customization options to supercharge user workflows

Add industry-specific toolsets with 3rd party applications

Extend your design reach with hundreds of industry-specific solutions that run on BricsCAD.

Build on BricsCAD via LISP, .NET or BRX APIs

Design and build your own workflow automation tools using BricsCADā€™s compatible APIs.

Automate everyday workflows with LISP

Reuse existing or create new LISP routines to bring new power to your workflows in BricsCAD.

Work the way you want in BricsCAD

Customize menus and user interfaces, migrate legacy customizations from AutoCADĀ®, or use a BricsCADā€™s pre-defined workspace.

Interoperability without compromise

BricsCAD lets you exchange design data freely
across all project stakeholders and all major file formats.

Available for

Default supported file formats

*included in BricsCAD Lite, Pro, BIM, Mechanical and Ultimate

DWG

AutoCAD

DXF

DWT

ACIS SAT

PDF

Micro Station

Colada

JPEG

TIFF

Draftsight

Wavefront

Extra BIM file formats

*included in BricsCAD BIM and Ultimate

Rhino

Sketchup

Revit

IFC

Extra 3D & Mechanical file formats

*requires an extra-cost moduleĀ Communicator for BricsCAD

Parasolid

CATIA

Creo

3D PDF
Solidworks

Inventor

STEP

IGES

Siemens_NX

ACIS
STL
Solid Edge

Out-of-the-box integrations

*Vault and Projectwise requireĀ BricsCAD Maintenance

Bricsys 24/7

Vault

Projectwise

Letā€™s start working together! Get in touch with us!

If you would like to work with us or just want to get in touch, weā€™d love to hear from you!