BricsCAD Feature Comparisons
BricsCAD® vs. AutoCAD® Feature Comparison
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| Lite | Pro | BIM | Mechanical | Ultimate | LT | Full | |
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| Perpetual | |
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| Perpetual + Maintenance | |
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| Volume (Perpetual) | |
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| Academic | |
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| Drawings | |||||||
| Native DWG file format (through AutoCAD 2022) | |
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| Password Protection | |
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| eTransmit | |
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| Sheet Set Manager | |
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| Geographic Location | |
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| Drawing Compare | |
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| Cloud Collaboration | |
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| Interface | |||||||
| Dark and Light Color Themes | |
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| Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables | |
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| Command Line (Autocomplete, Midstring, Clickable options) |
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| Start tab | |
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| File (Drawing) tabs | |
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| Model and Layout tabs | |
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| Menu bar | |
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| Toolbars | |
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| Ribbon | |
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| Tool Palettes | |
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| Contextual Right-click Menus | |
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| Contextual Quad Menu | |
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| Status Bar | |
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| Workspaces | |
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| Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box | |
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| Lockable Interface | |
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| Clean Screen Mode | |
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| Drawing Explorer | |
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| Customizable User Interface (CUI) | |
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| Structure Browser | |
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| Layout Manager | |
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| Selection, Snap & Track | |||||||
| Selection Filtering (QSELECT) | |
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| Add Selected | |
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| Select Similar | |
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| Selection Cycling | |
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| Entity Snaps (Osnaps) | |
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| Polar Tracking | |
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| Zintersection 3D snap | |
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| Nearest Distance | |
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| Adaptive Gridsnap | |
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| Real-time boundary detection | |
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| 2D Dynamic UCS | |
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| 3D Dynamic UCS | |
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| Drawing Tools | |||||||
| Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline | |
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| Multiline and Multiline Styles | |
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| Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Eliptical Arc | |
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| Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point | |
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| Helix | |
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| 2D Parameters, Constraints | |
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| Text, Multiline Text, Text Styles, Text Editor | |
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| Dimensions, Dimension Styles | |
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| Multi-leaders, Mult-leader Styles | |
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| Single and Multi-line text, Text Styles, Text Editor | |
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| Hatches, Gradients, Hatch/Gradient Editor | |
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| Wipeouts | |
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| Revision Clouds | |
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| Attributes, Attribute Editor | |
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| Tables, Table Styles | |
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| Fields | |
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| Date Extraction | |
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| Data Linking | |
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| Annotation Scaling | |
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| Spell Check | |
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| Editing Tools | |||||||
| Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align | |
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| Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join | |
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| Fillet, Chamfer | |
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| CopyGuided | |
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| MoveGuided | |
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| Grip Edit | |
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| Properties Panel | |
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| Manipulator (3D Gizmo) | |
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| Draworder | |
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| Undo Per Entity (property history) | |
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| Arrange (BricsCAD feature is superior) | |
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| Optimize | |
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| Simplify | |
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| Findoutliers | |
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| Reference Tools | |||||||
| Blocks, Block Editor | |
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| Dynamic Blocks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
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| Blockify | |
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| Associative Arrays | |
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| Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit | |
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| PDF Attach, Clip | |
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| Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency | |
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| Point Cloud Preprocess, Attach, Crop, Colormap | ✗ | |
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| Layers, Layer States | |
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| Visual Styles | |
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| LookFrom (ViewCubeô) | |
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| Match Perspective | |
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| Lights | ✗ | |
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| Materials | ✗ | |
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| Render | ✗ | |
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| Animation Editor | ✗ | |
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| Walkthrough Navigation | ✗ | |
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| ANIPATH Command | ✗ | |
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| Modeling Tools | |||||||
| ACIS Modeling | ✗ | |
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| Solid and Surface Modeling | ✗ | |
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| Solid Primitives | ✗ | |
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| Mesh Primitives | ✗ | |
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| Polysolid | ✗ | |
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| Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere | ✗ | |
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| Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken | ✗ | |
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| Twist | ✗ | |
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| Fillet, Chamfer | ✗ | |
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| Slice | ✗ | |
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| Multi-slice | ✗ | |
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| T Connect, L Connect, Connect with Nearest | ✗ | |
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| Extract Edges | ✗ | |
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| Direct modeling | ✗ | |
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| Deformable (Freeform) Modeling | ✗ | |
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| Audit, Simplify | |
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| 3D Parameters, Constraints | ✗ | |
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| 3D Autoparametrize | ✗ | |
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| 3D Blockify and Parametric Blockify | |
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| 3D Parametric Design Tables | ✗ | |
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| Section planes | ✗ | |
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| Drawing Views | ✗ | |
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| 3D Threads | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud Align | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud Bubble Viewer | |
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| Civil Tools | |||||||
| TIN Surface Modeling | ✗ | |
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| Civil Points | ✗ | |
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| TIN Volume Surface | ✗ | |
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| Grading | ✗ | |
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| Alignments | ✗ | |
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| Profiles (Vertical Alignments) | ✗ | |
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| Corridors | ✗ | |
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| Civil 3D Object Enabler | |
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| Label Styles | ✗ | |
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| Architectural Desktop Object Enabler | |
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| CADWorx Object Enabler | |
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| Building Tools | |||||||
| CAD-based BIM Features | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Structural Modeling Toolset | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Project Database | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Library Database | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Site, Building and Stories | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Windows and Doors | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Fully Parametric BIM Component Creation Creation | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| BOM Manager | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| 3D Spaces | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Quickwall | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Quickdraw | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud Floor Detection | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud Projection | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud Geometry Detection) | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud FitPlanar (geometry detection) | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Propagate | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Custom BIM Properties | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Graphical Override | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Drawing Customizations | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| BIM Dimensions | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Analytical Models | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Python Scripts (Beta) | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Manufacturing Tools | |||||||
| Mechanical Browser | ✗ | |
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| Parts Library | |
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| Piping | ✗ | |
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| Assembly Modeling | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Exploded Views | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Kinematic Analysis | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Bill of Materials | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Balloons Associated with BOM and Drawing Views | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| Sheet Metal | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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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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| Other Features: Junctions, Miters, Tabs, Form Features | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
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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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| Import, Export, Output | |||||||
| Print/Plot | |
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| CTB & STB Table Files | |
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| PC3 Printer Configuration Files | |
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| Named Page Setups | |
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| PDF Import, Export | |
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| DAE Import, Export | |
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| IFC Import, Export | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| 3DM Import, Export | ✗ | |
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| GEOMAP (insert Google and Bing map data into drawings | ✗ | |
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| GIS Export | |
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| LandXML Import, Export | ✗ | |
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| Import Civil 3D Data | ✗ | |
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| RFA Import | ✗ | ✗ | |
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| SKP Import | ✗ | |
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| DGN Import | |
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| SVG Export | |
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| FBX Export | |
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| STL Export | |
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| Pointcloud Export (.LAS and .PTS) | ✗ | |
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| Pointcloud Import (.LAS, .LAZ, .PTS, .PTX, e57, .RCS and .RCP) | ✗ | |
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| Additional formats available with BricsCAD Communicator |
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| Programming | |||||||
| ActiveX | |
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| Entity data editor | |
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| Script Recorder | |
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| Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax) | |
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| Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS) | |
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| DCL engine | |
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| COM API | ✗ | |
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| Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) | ✗ | |
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| VBA DVB projects support | ✗ | |
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| .NET | ✗ | |
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| BRX (ARX) | ✗ | |
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| TX (Teigha eXtensions) | |
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| CUI menu files support, with Diesel expressions | |
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| (1) You can manipulate dynamic block insertions but you cannot create dynamic block definitions. | |||||||
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