BricsCAD Ultimate Perpetual

BricsCAD Ultimate – The power of BricsCAD Lite, Pro, BIM and Mechanical in one convenient package

BricsCAD Ultimate is the all-in-one solution for designers, engineers, manufacturers, and contractors. It brings CAD and BIM software together into one bundle, so multi-disciplinary organisations to benefit from a continuously developing workflow that enables them to work better together.

BricsCAD Ultimate is a bundle product that contains all of the features found in BricsCAD Pro, BricsCAD Mechanical and BricsCAD BIM.

• Unified design platform – BricsCAD integrates with all other BricsCAD software for a cohesive workflow across departments.
  
• Optimised Performance – Design faster with greater accuracy, even when working with large files, thanks to advanced algorithms that reduce compute times.
  
• Intelligent Automation – Automate repetitive tasks in drafting and detailing workflows with unique-to-BricsCAD tools and AI-driven functionality.
  
• Cost-effective solution – With a lower total cost of ownership compared to other CAD software, BricsCAD delivers significant savings immediately while powering your profitability.
  
• Industry Leading Support – Talk to BricsCAD’s product experts for technical assistance and solving workflow issues. Plus, you’ll also have access to our CAD Software Direct support team.

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Why Choose BricsCAD Ultimate?

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BricsCAD Third-Party App Store

BricsCAD Mechanical features access to the BricsCAD App Store, which features over 400 specialised industry solutions across many disciplines. This enables you to get your work done easier, faster, and more accurately.

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Switching from Other 2D CAD and 3D Modelling Software to BricsCAD Ultimate

Switching to BricsCAD Lite is smoother than you think! Speak to our team for help with your migration.

• Native .dwg compatibility – Work directly with existing designs and supplier files without converting formats or losing fidelity.
  
• Familiar and Easy to Learn – Minimal learning curve and easy migration of current menus, command scripts, customisations, and templates.
  
• Seamless Integration – Continue using your current workflows without disruption and access a range of third-party tools and add-ons.
  

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Who Uses BricsCAD Ultimate?

• General Design: Start drafting straight away with familiar commands and standards. Speed up editing, annotation, and detailing through advanced features, including AI tools that reduce repetitive steps.
  
• Architects: Take your new architectural designs from concept to 2D plans faster in a familiar CAD interface and coordinate seamlessly with stakeholders in DWG format. Enjoy the higher productivity at a lower cost of ownership
  
• Product Designers and Manufacturers: Produce accurate 2D documentation for products and their related production methods.
  
• Building Subcontractors: Bring in asset data, adjust geometry, edit information, and exchange files in IFC format to support smooth collaboration with project partners.

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What’s New In BricsCAD Ultimate v26?

• Look From Widget – Navigation tool to easily select the desired position on the cube and dynamically reposition a preset view.
• Notification message dialogue box – Consistent notifications, offering a simple, clear pop-up for in-product warnings and updates.
• Log in process for analytics authentication – Uniformed log in for simplified browser authentication and consistency across tools.
• Display scaling and accuracy – Text, panels, and dialogs now scale more accurately, with increased support for fractional scaling and diverse monitor setups.
• Customisations for Settings dialogue box – Intuitive, easy process to configure and personalize BricsCAD through the Settings dialog box.
• Adjusted colour contrast in UI – Interface text and graphics in BricsCAD now offer better visibility.
• Streamlined workspace selection – A new launcher to easily find the workspace you need and get started quickly.
• Dynamic Block Creation – Create Dynamic Blocks within BricsCAD (available only for users outside the United States).
  3D solid manipulation control grips – Adjust the size and form of primitive solids and polysolids with 3D manipulation grips for fast freeform editing.
• Fillet and chamfer for all component edges – Fillet or chamfer can be applied to all edges of a selected 3D solid in single click when solid option is selected.
• Drawing units through command line – Change the drawing units and related settings, like insertion scale and precision, through the command line (-DWGUNITS).
• Flatshot through command line – Create 2D block representation of 3D solid geometry based on current view, through the command line or in unattended script (-FLATSHOT).
• Block creation from section plane – Generate a 2D section block from a section plane of a 3D model, either through the command line or in unattended script (-SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK).
• Centralised point cloud management – Import, edit, and manage point clouds with thumbnails and search for quick dataset access.
• Reverse vertices of selected geometry – Reverse the direction of lines, polylines, splines, and helixes, making it easier to read text where directionality matters.
• Patches to fix open model faces – Repair open boundaries of surfaces with continuity control to create solids from mesh data (SURFPATCH).
• Preview for rotation and scaling of solids – Added user feedback when scaling or rotating solid bodies, making the commands predictable in the graphics window.
• Advanced settings for geographic location – Geographic Location dialog box offers now offers a simplified user experience.
• Geographic Location through command line – Sets or updates the geographic location of the drawing when running through the command line or in unattended script (-GEO/-GEOGRAPHICLOCATION).
• Dynamic input using x-axis – Consistency within commands for simplified keyboard input, making design work easy.
• Geometric properties of 3D solids – Quickly edit geometric properties of 3D solids through the properties panel with dynamic feedback.
• Methods for font mapping – New criteria for font substitution introduced for default.fmp and fontalt.fmp files.
• GIS import and export for GML files – Import and export geospatial data with support for industry standard Geographic Markup Language (.GML) enabling consistent collaboration.
• Civil Points creation – Generate Civil Points on objects, grids, or by converting CAD points and blocks for accurate, efficient site modeling, easily and simply.
• Insert menu standardised for block types – Unified user interface for insertion of all block types in BricsCAD, simplifying the user experience.
• Drawing Explorer block search – Quickly find and manage blocks in large drawings, making it easy to identify which blocks are being used and reused.
• Dynamic Block editing – Edit parameters and actions of Dynamic Blocks to ensure seamless workflow compatibility in a mixed block environment (available only for users outside the United States).
• Faster geometry selection with Quick Select – Added functionality to QSELECT command. Select multiple entities when defining the filter.
• Command preview visibility – Determines whether a preview for TRIM and EXTEND commands is shown and can be enabled or disabled by the user.
• Optimised sheet metal recognition – Advanced classification of edge features in sheet metal, with adjustable extrusion depth for better recognition.
• Location control during model federation – Match georeferenced locations across assets for absolute precision during model federation.
• Reference geometry using IFC – Import IFC models as reference geometry, seperated from the model’s native geometry.
• IFC4x3 support for classification and export – Classify entities according to the IFC4x3 classification structure (BIMCLASSIFY). Export models to IFC4x3, for better alignment with plant and infrastructure projects.
• Interference detection – Intuitive UI to apply filters, query data, and manage results. Inspect and delete interferences by isolating them in model space.
• Section plane accuracy and control – Increased precision when sectioning models with adjustable grips. Change the section type and depth from the properties panel.
• Modifications to Attributes – Attribute positions, orientations, and property changes are automatically synchronized when related parameters are modified.
• Blockify in Create Block Definition dialog box – Run Blockify within the Create Block Definition dialog box. Create new block definitions and check for exisiting blocks available for reuse.
• 2D Geometric constraint symbol grouping – Group symbols to boost performance and clarity in complex drawings.
• Outline for Render mode – Highlight the outer shape of point clouds with the new Outline filter for clearer visualisation.
• Faster and reusable 2D FEA – Edit 2D FEA objects with fewer clicks. View reaction forces, reuse setups, and zoom-highlight for faster analysis.
• Project collaboration with shared data – Work efficiently across users and teams with better access to shared project data, like spatial locations and compositions.
• Industry-based project classification and alignment – Classify project data to be more closely aligned with industry standard classification schemas.
• BIM blocks for building components – Create detailed geometry and embed needed component information with BIM blocks, or easily convert existing blocks.
• Slice section view – View a sliced section of a 3D model within a specified boundary with editable thickness and offset position.
• Section view plane visibility – Ability to toggle on and off the display section planes within 3D model view based on section type.
• Geometry measure for 2D and 3D – Measure 2D and 3D distances, radii, angles, areas, and volumes (MEASUREGEOM). Results appear in command prompt and dynamic tooltip.
• 3D section grips for advanced visual controls – Easier to dynamically manipulate section cuts through 3D solids.
• View Base model generation – Continue working while generating additional drawing views.
• 2D polyline tracing on point clouds – Easily trace polylines over point clouds with one click per segment for fast, accurate linework (POINTCLOUDTRACE).
• Temporary ortho mode for MLeader – New functionality added to MLEADER command. Add temporary ortho alignment (press and hold Shift key) for easier leader placement.
• Streamlined dimensioning control – Smarter commands and advanced UI make power dimensioning faster and more accurate.
• Smart auto-chamfer dimensioning – Save time with automated chamfer dimensions. Select the chamfer and edges to instantly create two clear linear measurements.
• Comprehensive Weld Symbol dialogue box – Quickly apply advanced weld symbols with full property control from a unified panel.
• Effortless parts navigation – Quickly cycle and locate through parts in drawings, combining zoom and highlight into one efficient command.
• Auto-line detection and ortho image generation – Generate orthographic images and auto-detect lines from point clouds using a section plane for precise results.
• TIN cut and fill volume reports – Easily generate and incorporate accurate volume reports for cut and fill analysis.
• Auto Mapping Sets for point style assignment and management – Automatically assign point styles and layers based on point codes for faster drafting.
• Civil Label Support for GIS data – Add and customise civil labels, now including automated GIS data attributes, for smarter, easier, faster annotation.
• User-defined ranges for elevation and slope analysis – Slope and elevation analysis with custom ranges, colours, and legends for clear surface visualisation.
• Civil Section creation – Easily create Civil Sections and Section Views along any Alignment or String for detailed design insights, in bulk and at scale.

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BricsCAD Licensing Types

Perpetual
Buy your chosen version of BricsCAD, and the licence is yours to keep forever. Pair with BricsCAD Maintenance to gain access to updates, support, and more.

Subscription
BricsCAD subscription plans offer users an annual, all-in-one package that gives them access to both the BricsCAD platform and all benefits of BricsCAD Maintenance. Pay a single annual fee and enjoy the best BricsCAD has to offer. Buy BricsCAD Ultimate subscription licence.

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BricsCAD Maintenance

BricsCAD Maintenance is a cost-effective way to get the most out of your perpetual licenses. With just a small annual fee in addition to your one-time perpetual license cost, BricsCAD Maintenance will give you unlimited access to industry-leading Priority Support, exciting product updates and major release versions.

An active maintenance agreement provides users with several added benefits, including access to all major and minor updates, priority developer support response, access to proprietary plugins for ProjectWise and Vault, and much more.

If you wish to continue with these benefits, BricsCAD Maintenance can be renewed annually.

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BricsCAD Communicator

BricsCAD supports lots of common file types by default, including DWG, DXF, DWT, ACIS SAT, PDF, SketchUp, and image files. Communicator for BricsCAD seamlessly imports even more geometry & PMI data from all major CAD applications. Communicator runs on all editions of BricsCAD except for BricsCAD Shape and BricsCAD Lite.

With Communicator on Windows, import ACIS, Autodesk Inventor, CATIA v4, CATIA v5/v6, Creo Elements / Pro Engineer, IGES, NX, Parasolid, Siemens, SolidWorks, STEP, VDA-FS, XCGM, Solid Edge, and STL.

With Communicator on Windows, export 3D PDF, ACIS, CATIA v4, CATIA v5, IGES, STEP, VDA-FS, and XCGM.

Product Comparison

	Lite	Pro	Mechanical	BIM	Ultimate
2D Drafting	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Project Documentation	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Custom Blocks and Symbol Library	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
3D Modelling		✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
3rd Party Applications		✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Civil Survey		✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Point Clouds		✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
Parts Library			✔️		✔️
Specialised Mechanical Tools			✔️		✔️
BOM Generation			✔️	✔️	✔️
BIM Tools				✔️	✔️
IFC handling				✔️	✔️
Buy Perpetual	Buy Lite	Buy Pro	Buy Mechanical	Buy BIM	Buy Ultimate
Buy Annual Subscription	Buy Lite	Buy Pro	Buy Mechanical	Buy BIM	Buy Ultimate
Buy 3 Year Subscription	Buy Lite	Buy Pro	Buy Mechanical	Buy BIM	Buy Ultimate