Bricscad vs Autocad

[charales]

Hello,

I'm trying to find out how does Bricscad behave in a comparison against Autocad.
Has anyone used it profesionally?

Thanks for your time and answers.

[David Bethel]

I don't know much about Bricscad. I run into more DataCAD than any other knock off. I tink it is 2D only. I have a licensed copy of Inttelicad. As far as the A2K dwg format, it is very comaptible. I don't know if they ever picked up 2004s format. Good Luck -David

[DonnieWorld]

I know this is an ancient post but ...

BricsCAD v9 is GREAT! Try it out and you'll ask why pay so much for AutoCAD. I'm not a reseller or salesman ... I just like it

[Coosbaylumber]

I know this is an ancient post but ...

BricsCAD v9 is GREAT! Try it out and you'll ask why pay so much for AutoCAD. I'm not a reseller or salesman ... I just like it


I use I-98 (prior to Brics', back in the Visio days) and there are a few bugs in it, making it do thhings other than requested or expected. I have friends who use latest version, and they complain it does same for them too, but no responce after purchading it.


Wm.

[DonnieWorld]

I work for a medium sized Engineering firm and have spent quite a bit of time with both BricsCAD and AutoCAD. I've encountered a few things in the lastest version of BricsCAD too. But I have in AutoCAD as well. I wouldn't say one is more stable than the other. It is working well for many of our users and costs a fraction (almost 1/10) of the price. BricsCAD won't be the answer for everyone but I tell my friends to test the free BricsCAD download before I spent the money on AutoCAD.

[Tankman]

Never used BricsCAD however, engineer firms want to communicate with
*.dwg AutoCAD files.

I find other CAD products don't save to well to *.dwg AutoCAD files.
I've encountered too many issues and left the "junque" for others who don't
or won't bite the bullet and purchase an AutoDesk CAD program.

Can't go to other "CAD" products and possibly lose some communication that our clients require.

[DonnieWorld]

We're all in that position. BricsCAD reads and writes AutoCAD DWGs natively. BricsCAD displays the custom objects from the verticals like Civil3D as well.

I don't think BricsCAD writes 2010 version drawings yet but we've been using it for 2007 version drawings very effectively.

You'd be very surprised if you took a look. The commands and interface are almost exactly the same. Almost all lisp routines and vba macros run without any modification.

I don't want to mislead anyone ... AutoCAD has its place, and we have many licenses in use. BricsCAD and possibly some other alternatives have a place as well.

We've found that users that use AutoCAD very similarly to the way they did in releases 2002 and 2005 like BricsCAD very much.