System requirements and recommendations.
Supported Operating Systems
Minimum CPU:
Recommended CPU:
The CPU with the highest single-thread performance rating will always excel with BricsCAD.
Additional CPU cores will bring in higher performance, as more and more functions get multithreaded computation in BricsCAD.
Note:
Minimum System Memory:
8 GB
Recommended System Memory:
For maximum performance, determine the memory configuration of your PC and ensure that each memory channel on the motherboard is populated with at least one memory module.
Minimum Disk Space:
3 GB for BricsCAD Ultimate, installed
Recommended Disk Space:
(As needed)
We strongly recommend using SSD (Sata 3 / PCI-E NVME) as system drives, for both BricsCAD and Windows. Drawings and support files can reside on slower mechanical hard disk drives, if necessary.
Note: Solid-state disks can be up to 10x faster reading and 20x faster writing data than a mid-range hard disk drive
Minimum Display System:
Recommended Display System:
On Microsoft Windows systems, most graphics cards & GPUs from NVIDIA, AMD and Intel® are supported.
Note: If you work with point clouds and big models in the model space, we advise changing Windows’ Graphic settings as follows:
On Linux systems, most graphics cards and GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD are supported.
On Mac systems, native Apple display hardware is supported.
BricsCAD’s non-wireframe display modes are generated by RedSDK technology from Redway3D®. The GPU is used to render this modes.
Note: We suggest that you install the latest drivers available for your display hardware, as recommended by the manufacturer.
Note to Linux users: Hardware acceleration of 3D graphics on Linux systems is NOT supported on:
Apple introduces big changes with each major release of macOS. These result in a number of applications to break, including BricsCAD.
Since V21.2.06, BricsCAD (Mac) works on Rosetta 2 (Intel emulation on Apple silicon). A native build is planned for the future.
