with the latest changes
(new features, improvements and bug fixes and development
features).Below is a brief description of the enhancements and new features. Click on the hyperlink keywords for a detailed description.
Please read the BricsCAD Release Notes with the latest changes
(new features, improvements and bug fixes and development
features).
BricsCAD® (Windows) V15 installs and runs independently from previous BricsCAD versions.
V15 is not binary compatible with V14, some API's have changed. Most 3rd party applications/tools, except scripts and applications written in pure Lisp, will need to be rebuilt by their manufacturer in order to run on V15. If you are using 3rd party applications, please check with your supplier for V15 compatibility and updates.
In trial mode, BricsCAD runs as full
Platinum version without any feature restrictions.
The RunAsLevel user preference allows
to run BricsCAD in a lower level than the licensed level. A restart
is needed after changing this RunAsLevel user preference.
Pro or Platinum license is required for:
Rendering
3D direct modeling
Generated Views
Platinum license is required for
3D Constraints
Mechanical Assembly design
Sheet Metal design
BIM (Building Information Model).
See Differences between platforms and levels for a detailed overview of the differences between Classic, Pro and Platinum licenses on the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
To report problems, please send a Support Request.
New in 15.3
BIM database
A BIM database consists of Building Materials and Compositions. A Building Material contains information about one specific material: its appearance, cost, manufacturer, etc. A Composition contains information about the structure of a building element, by defining Composition layers. Each Composition layer refers to a Building Material, and has a certain thickness.
Project database and Library database:
A BIM Project consists of dwg entities, classified as Building
Elements, to which Compositions can be attached. All Compositions
being used in a project, are stored in the Project database. The
Project database can be stored inside a dwg file, or in a separate
file with extension .bimlib. When the Project database is embedded
in a dwg file, that dwg file contains the complete BIM Project.
When the Project database is stored as an external bimlib file, the
BIM Project can consist of multiple dwg files, all using the same
Project database.
To reuse compositions and building materials across multiple BIM
Projects, a Library database can be specified, in addition to the
Project database. The Library database is a bimlib file, usually
stored in a location which is common to several projects. When
Compositions and Building Materials from the Library database are
used in a BIM Project, they are automatically imported in the
Project database. To maintain and extend BIM databases, users can
drag Building Materials and Compositions from one database to the
other, provided that they have write access to the destination
database.
Flexibility:
The same flexibility as we offer in modelling, we want to offer in
attaching building information. Although Compositions are grouped
into Wall, Slab, Roof and Generic Compositions, any type of
Composition can be attached to any dwg entity. When that dwg entity
is a 3D Solid, with certain geometrical properties, then we will
use the information from the Composition to control the thickness
of walls and slabs, and the cross section will show the wall or
slab structure by applying the hatch patterns from the different
layers on the section geometry. When a 3D Solid is assigned a
Composition which enforces a thickness or a minimal thickness, and
this thickness can not be applied on the geometry, the section will
appear in red to indicate the problem, that the dwg entity does not
match with the chosen Composition.
Composition layers:
A Composition describes the structure of a Building Element by an
ordered set of Composition layers. Each Composition layer has
following fields:
Material. The Building Material for this layer.
Function. One of (None, Structure, Substrate, Insulation, Finish1, Finish2, Membrane). In this version this field serves for information only.
Thickness. Defines the thickness of the layer.
Locked thickness. Specifies whether this layer should always have the same, fixed thickness, or that it has a variable thickness. Only one layer in a Composition can have a variable thickness. As such, a Composition can have a fixed total thickness (all its layers have a locked thickness), a minimal total thickness (there are two or more layers of which one has a varying thickness) or a free thickness (there is only one layer and it has a varying thickness). A Building Material can optionally have a locked thickness on its own, layers using such material can not have a variable thickness.
At the time of attaching a Composition to a 3D Solid, the thickness, if applicable, is applied by finding the side faces, using the same logic as BIMDRAG and BIMCONNECT. One of these side faces, the one located most to the outside of the building, is marked as reference face. The opposite face is moved until the distance between the two side faces is equal to the desired thickness. Users can flip the choice of reference face with the command BIMFLIP. BIMUPDATETHICKNESS can be used at any time to reapply the Composition thickness on the 3D solid.
Sections created with VIEWSECTION will show the layers from the Composition. The reference face is used to indicate the top layer for Slab Compositions, and the exterior layer for other Compositions. Starting from the reference face, the 3D Solid is sliced by planes parallel to the reference face, at an offset equal to the layer thickness. Again, BIMFLIP can be used to flip the starting face from which the layers are set out.
BIM Compositions panel:
All BIM database features are accessible from the dockable panel
named BIM Compositions:
open the BIM Project Info dialog. In this dialog you can specify the location of Project and Library database, find some statistics about the databases, and manage the project filter.
Tags:
To each Building Material or Composition, any number of tags can be
attached. Any string can be entered as tag, and a list of existing
tags in the library is available to choose from. On the project
info dialog, each of the tags can be used as a filter on the
database: when a tag is checked, only those Building Materials or
Compositions which have that tag, will be listed. There is a button
at the top of each list, to switch the filter on or off.
BIMINSERT: During placement of a window or door on a 3D Solid face, dynamic dimensions are created, starting from the middle of each edge of the bounding rectangle of the window or door, to the nearest parallel edge on the face of the 3D Solid. After placing a window or door, placement continues to place another instance, until escape is pressed.
Mechanical Browser: options added in the context menu:
Flip side: allows to change the relative position of an entity (vectors normal of the selected faces point in the same direction or in the opposite direction). This option can be applied to Parallel, Coincident and Concentric constraints only and on condition the constraint is applied to faces.
Enabled: allows to enable/disable a 3D Constraint.
Select: allows to select edges, faces and/or 3D Solids related to a Feature, 3D Constraints or Body node.
DMSIMPLIFY: simplifies geometry and topology of 3d solid entities. It removes unnecessary edges and vertices, merges seam edges, and replaces the geometry of faces and edges by analytic surfaces and curves, if possible within the user-specified tolerance. It is recommended to always run this command on imported 3d solid geometry.
VIEWSECTIONSTYLE: allows to specify the visual format of section views and section lines.
VIEWDETAILSTYLE: allows to specify the visual format of detail views and detail symbols.
VIEWEDIT: allows changing the scale and the hidden line visibility of drawing views.
New in 15.2
ACISOUT: surface entities can now be exported to a .sat file.
AIMLEADEREDITADD and AIMLEADEREDITREMOVE commands were added to provide a shortcut to add/remove leader lines to/from mleader entities.
AUTOCOMPLETE - the suggestion list includes all commands and/or system variables and/or user preferences that contain the current character string.
BIM
BIMIFCIMPORT: BETA version of IFC import. Imports 3D geometry from a IFC file.
BIMSKPIMPORT: BETA version of Sketchup import. Imports geometry from a Sketchup file. Optionally stitching can be performed:
With stitching, faces are combined to form 3d solids, when the face edges are coincident.
Without stitching, all faces are imported as REGION entities, which have layer and color properties of the corresponding sketchup faces.
BIMSPLIT: analyzes a solid, when segments of wall-like solids can be detected, the solid is split into these segments
CONSTRAINTBARDISPLAY: new system variable to control the visibility of a geometry constraint at its creation and/or selection.
DCDISPLAY: new command to select constraint dimensions, or entities which have dimensional constraints on them, and allows to set them to be displayed or hidden.
DYNCONSTRAINTMODE: new system variable to set the visibility of hidden dim constraints when the constrained entity is selected. When hovering over an entity with a dimensional constraint, the blue constraint glyph now also becomes visible.
DMPUSHPULL: 3d solid faces with spline geometry can now be edited in basic cases.
DMSTITCH: new command stitches a set of separate imported surfaces into 3d solids.
EXPLODE: surface entities can now be exploded.
GENERATEBOUNDARY: this new command is similar to HATCHGENERATEBOUNDARY but instead of accepting only hatches as input, it also accepts faces from 3d solids as well as the boundaries detected when SELECTIONMODES flag 4 is activated. Spline or elliptical segments of boundaries are converted to multi-segmented polyline edges.
The Geographic Location dialog has been extended to allow to define and store (or remove) geographic location data in a drawing.
CHOOSE LOCATION: the (long) list of cities can now be searched using a 'filter-as-you-type' search field.
CGEOCS: this read-only system variable indicates the Current Geographic Coordinate System. A field to display its content was added to the Status Bar.
GEOMARKERVISIBILITY: system variable to control whether, in drawings that contain GeoData, a geographic marker glyph is displayed at the location in the drawing that corresponds with the Latitude/Longitude chosen in the Geographic Location Dialog.
The MAPCONNECT command brings up the Map Connect dialog which allows to set up a connection with a Web Map Service.
The 10 most recently used connection data sets are remembered for use during subsequent sessions.
The Select Map Content dialog appears after a connection with the WMS server has been established, showing an overview of the offered map data.
One or more data 'layers' can be selected for download, and the user can specify the desired ground resolution and number of tiles into which the data should be divided.
An estimate of the download size is displayed at the bottom of the dialog.
Downloaded map tiles are stored as regular image files, the name of the images reflects the URL of the Web Map Service, the Coordinate Reference System, and the layer name.
The definition of the supported Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) is stored in the new geodatabase.xml file which is located in the folder pointed to by the ROAMABLEROOTPREFIX variable, e.g. C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Bricsys\BricsCAD\V15x64\en_US\Support
Also contained in geodatabase.xml is a list of cities and their WGS84 geo coordinates which is used by the "Choose Location..." functionality of the Geographic Location dialog.
Before adding map data to a drawing, the GEOGRAPHICLOCATION command should be executed to define and store the appropriate geographic location data in the drawing.
OFFSET: added the possibility to offset faces of 3d solids as well as boundaries detected when SELECTIONMODES flag 4 is activated. To use this new feature, move the cursor so the desired face or boundary is highlighted and select the Offset tool from the Quad: the offset boundary is now displayed in dynamics, allowing to snap to a desired location or fill in an offset distance.
PDFADJUST: new command to adjust the fade, contrast, and monochrome settings of a PDF underlay.
PHOTOMETRIC LIGHT DEFINITIONS
The LIGHTINGUNITS system variable specifies if generic or photometric lighting is used.
0 - generic lighting. No lighting units are used.
1 - photometric lighting using American units (foot-candles)
2 - photometric lighting using International units (lux)
Web lights with photometric light definitions (IES files) are supported. The photometric data should be of Type C and use IES format LM-63-02.
When the photometric data file could not be found or could not be read, the web light will be interpreted as a point light.
Photometric data is applied when using the RENDER command or when software-based rendering is performed - when using hardware-accelerated display web lights are interpreted as point lights.
The new DEFAULTLIGHTING system variable specifies whether default lighting should be used always or only in case no other lights have been switched on. Default lighting consists of distant light that follows the view direction. When default lighting is used, it replaces all other light sources defined in the drawing. This setting can be specified per viewport, for ease of use it has been added to the Properties Bar.
PICKAUTO: added support for PICKAUTO == 2. With this, window selection is initiated even if one is hovering over an entity by clicking and dragging the mouse.
QUAD for entity creation: the new 'No Selection' group contains commands which are available when the Quad is called while no selection is active. This allows to use the Quad not only for modifying selected (or hovered) entities but also for creation of new entities. A new flag (4) was added to the QUADDISPLAY setting to allow to bring up the Quad by clicking the right mouse button: a short right-click will bring up the Quad, while holding the button depressed slightly longer will bring up the Shortcut menu, thus offering the best of both worlds.
QUICKSELECT: now supports BIM properties and properties of 3rd-party objects, with the exception of per-instance properties.
SCALE: both X and Y scale are available now on the Properties Bar for Raster Images and Pdf-Underlays. A new option 'XY' was added for individual scaling along X/Y axes for IMAGEATTACH and PDFATTACH command-line versions.
Junction features are now created with SMFLANGEEDGE and SMFLANGECONNECT commands and listed in Mechanical Browser
Junction feature gap can be separately controlled for each feature; the default global value can be defined on the document level.
SMJUNCTIONSWITCH: command allows changing symmetrical Junction feature to one with overlapping faces. Switching the type is also available in Mechanical Browser.
smTargetCAM: new system variable which defines a target CAM system for processing sheet metal parts unfolded with BricsCAD using SMUNFOLD command.
SHORTCUTMENUDURATION: system variable that specifies how long the right mouse button must be pressed to display the shortcut menu. Default length is 250 milliseconds. This new option is especially useful when combined with the new
SNAP: added support for Nearest, Endpoint, Midpoint and Intersection snapping to the geometry of ADT objects (Architectural DeskTop).
MENUBAR: system variable to control whether the menu bar is displayed.
VIEWPROJ: command creates additional projected views for drawing views previously created using the VIEWBASE command.
New in 15.1
3D CONSTRAINTS: 'Flip side' context menu option of the Mechanical Browser allows to change the relative placement of constrained entities.
ASSEMBLY DESIGN:
PARAMETRIC COMPONENTS: Parameters defined in a component file can be changed in a higher level assembly maintaining the link to the source component definition. Parameters can be changed in the Mechanical Browser properties or in the Properties panel when the block reference representing the mechanical component insert is selected.
BMBOM: columns with new data optionally can be added to the assembly bill of materials table. New data types of components are Density, Description, Volume, Mass, Parameters.
DENSITY: material density property for components was added in the Mechanical Browser.
BMMASSPROP: command to calculate mass properties of an entire component or a selected set of bodies/subcomponents, taking into account the assigned density values - volume, mass, center of gravity, inertia tensor.
Concept:
Instead of creating a set of dedicated BIM primitives like walls, slabs, columns, etc..., each with their own restricted behavior and properties, we opted for offering maximum flexibility. Any 3D Solid can be used in a BIM model, whether it is created and edited by using existing BricsCAD modeling tools, new powerful BIM commands, or even imported from 3rd party software or edited by 3rd party tools.
At any stage one can decide to classify 3D Solid, or other entities, as Building Elements of type Wall, Slab, Column, etc... Classification can be done automatically and manually.
The automatic classification tool analyzes and classifies entire buildings in a few seconds.
IFC import/export ensures optimal cooperation with other disciplines and applications.
Modeling commands:
BIMDRAG: Main editing tool for 3D Solids which resemble walls and slabs. Geometry of 3D Solids is analyzed on the fly. Depending on this analysis and on which face is selected, BIMDRAG allows you to easily perform following operations, which can be toggled on the fly by pressing the CTRL key:
Drag a single face to extend a wall or slab over a distance or to a point in the model.
Automatically connect to the nearest solid.
Select any solid(s) to connect to.
Move an entire wall or slab, specifying the distance relative to any other wall or slab in the model, dragging along faces of connected walls or slabs.
Modify the thickness of a wall or slab.
BIMCONNECT: accepts a selection set of 2 solids, and will try to create an L-connection between the two solids. Press enter to accept the suggested connection or tap the CTRL key to switch to alternative connection types. This command works for walls and roof slabs, or any other set of 3D Solids for which a connection can be found.
BIMINSERT: inserts a window or door (see below on windows and doors).
BIMWINDOWUPDATE: updates the opening made by a window or door in a solid, in case the definition changed in such way that the opening was not correctly updated automatically.
Windows and Doors: Windows and Doors are native .dwg files which can be inserted in walls or slabs by the command BIMINSERT.
Using Dynamic UCS, a window will automatically align with the 3D Solid Face it is inserted on.
A 3D Solid in the window drawing on a layer named "BIM_SUBTRACT" will be used to automatically create an opening in the wall, keep the window in its position in the wall, and keep the opening associative with the window.
Optionally, the window drawing can contain 2D symbols. These 2D symbols will either replace the actual 3D Solid section of the window, or be added with the 3D Solid section, depending on their layer: symbols on a layer with prefix 'BRX_2D_' will be used to replace the geometry resulting from the actual section, symbols on a layer with prefix 'BRX_2D+_' will be added to the section result. Only those 2D entities in a plane parallel to the section plane are considered.
BIM Classification: At any time, any dwg entity can be classified as a Building Element and get a name and an internal guid (a globally unique identifier).
Specialized types of Building Element are :
Wall: applicable to any 3D Solid
Slab: applicable to any 3D Solid
Column: applicable to any 3D Solid
Beam: applicable to any 3D Solid
Window: applicable to any Block reference
Door: applicable to any Block reference
BIMCLASSIFY: this
command allows to classify an entity to any of the above elements.
Each type is separately available in the Quad when an applicable
entity is highlighted.
The command has an option to automatically classify a set of
entities. Currently automatically classified elements are walls,
slabs, windows and doors.
Unclassify: Any classified element can be unclassified, removing all BIM data from the entity.
BIMEXPORT: exports the model to a .ifc file containing all 3D geometrical and BIM related data. Entities which were not classified, or were classified as Building Element, are exported as Building Element Proxy. Others are exported to the corresponding IFC element.
CUSTOM ENTITIES: AREA, BREAK, OFFSET, TRIM and EXTEND commands have been extended to support custom entities.
COPY: added REPEAT option to the copy command, which allows array-like repeat operation.
DELETETOOL: system variable to control whether 'tool' entities ( subtracted entities ) used during the SUBTRACT command are deleted or retained. By default tools are deleted.
DMEXTRUDEMODE: system variable which determines whether DMEXTRUDE and DMREVOLVE commands create new solids or do boolean union when their 'Auto' option is used.
DMEXTRUDE, DMREVOLVE and SMFLANGEBASE commands can now be applied to boundaries detected when the Boundary flag of the new SELECTIONMODES setting is active.
DOCUMENT TABS:
The ShowDocTabs setting controls whether a tab is displayed for each opened document.
The DocTabPosition setting controls whether the tabs are displayed along the top, bottom, left or right side of the graphic window.
Previously this feature was only available on Linux and Mac versions, now a Windows implementation based on Daniel Marcotte's DocTabs utility has been added.
DUCS LOCK: the dynamic UCS can be locked/unlocked by tapping the Shift key.
DYNAMICS: added dynamic dimensions for RECTANGLE, MTEXT, BOX, CYLINDER, SPHERE, AI_SPHERE, WEDGE and CONE commands.
DYNAMIC BLOCKS now can be edited in-place using the following grip types:
Point
XY
Linear
Polar
Rotation
Flip
Visibility
Entity Snaps toolbar:
Added a button to start the little-known but very handy TK input option, which allows the use of temporary Tracking points.
Added status button for OSOPTION flag 1: 'Ignore Hatches'
Added status button for OSOPTION flag 2: 'Ignore negative Z values when using Dynamic UCS mode'
Added status button for OSNAPZ: 'Ignore entity snap elevation' which replaces the Z coord of the snapped point with the current value of the ELEVATION variable.
FILEOPEN command: always operates on the command line, ignoring the FILEDIA setting.
HIDEOBJECTS, ISOLATEOBJECTS and UNISOLATEOBJECTS commands:
HIDEOBJECTS: hides the selected entities.
ISOLATEOBJECTS/ISOLATE: hides all but the selected entities.
UNISOLATEOBJECTS/UNISOLATE/UNHIDEOBJECTS/UNHIDE: unhides entities that were hidden.
These commands are controlled by a system variable OBJECTISOLATIONMODE:
0: hide entities for the current drawing session only.
1: hide entities persistently over multiple drawing sessions.
FORMULAS: implemented direct entering of formulas in table cells.
HATCH GRIP EDIT: implemented grip editing for non-associative hatches.
HORIZON: for perspective views a horizon background is now displayed when no specific view background has been set. The horizon background is fully configurable through following new settings:
HorizonBkg_Enable: enables or disables the horizon background. Default = enabled.
HorizonBkg_GroundHorizon: color of the ground near the horizon.
HorizonBkg_GroundOrigin: color of the ground near the origin.
HorizonBkg_SkyHorizon: color of the sky near the horizon.
HorizonBkg_SkyLow: color of the lower part of the sky.
HorizonBkg_SkyHigh: color of the higher part of the sky.
LAYERP (Layer Previous) command: undoes the most recent change or set of changes made to layer settings.
LAYERPMODE: system variable to switch tracking of changes made to layer settings On/Off (for use by the LAYERP command).
LAYLOCKFADECTL: system variable to control faded display of locked layers. Not yet supported for rendered display modes.
LIBRARIES:
ACIS modeling engine was upgraded from R24 to R25
REDSDK engine was upgraded from V3.2 to V3.4.0.9
TEIGHA library was upgraded from V3.9 to V4.0. Teigha V4.0 contains hundreds of fixes and improvements for the processing of dwg files.
WxWidgets library was upgraded from V2.9 to V3.0.1
LICENSE MANAGER: added support for IPv6 for network licensing.
The new LookFrom control can be docked in one of the corners of the graphics window and allows to set the desired view orientation in a fast and intuitive way.
Detailed configuration possibilities are offered in its right-click menu.
This control replaces the former LookFrom toolbar.
MTEXT RULER: allows positioning of indents and tabs in a user-friendly way.
NOTIFICATION: New settings have been added to control whether a warning should appear when attached files have been modified or when they are missing.
XNOTIFYTIME: sets the time interval between checks for modified files. Setting the value to 0 disables checking for modifications.
XREFNOTIFY: controls whether warnings for missing or modified XREF files are issued.
IMAGENOTIFY: controls whether warnings for missing or modified image files are issued.
PDFNOTIFY: controls whether warnings for missing or modified PDF files are issued.
POLYSOLID command to create wall-shaped solids.
Separate option: if set, each edge of the base polyline will generate its distinct solid.
Dynamic option: if set, after entering the base polyline is concluded, dynamic dimensions are displayed allowing to set the values for height (stored in the PSOLHEIGHT system variable) and width (stored in the PSOLWIDTH system variable).
Dynamic Justification: tapping the Ctrl key during the end stage of the command will toggle the Justification option between Left, Middle and Right.
PREVIEWTOPDOWN: this setting had become redundant and was removed.
RENDERING: ANTIALIASRENDER and ANTIALIASSCREEN system variables control the amount of anti-aliasing (edge smoothing) applied during rendering generation and on-screen rendered mode display. Default value is 1, maximum value is 5.
Note: high anti-alias values incur a high calculation cost.
ANTIALIASSCREEN applies to the SHADEMODE command and the currently selected visual style.
RENDER MATERIAL LIBRARY
RIBBON: available and individually configurable for the 2D Drafting, 3D Modeling, Mechanical and BIM workspaces.
SELECTION: 4 new commands, available from the Quad in the "Solid/Face Selection" group, allow to select 3d solid faces or 3d solids which are related to an input face:
SELECTALIGNEDFACES: Selects all faces which are coplanar with the input face.
SELECTALIGNEDSOLIDS: Selects all solids which have a face which is coplanar with the input face.
SELECTCONNECTEDFACES: Select all faces which are overlapping with the input face.
SELECTCONNECTEDSOLIDS: Select all solids which have a face which is overlapping with the input face.
SELECTIONMODES system variable: controls selection mode of Edges, Faces and Boundaries.
Edge: if activated, edges of 3d solids can be selected directly, without requiring to hold the Ctrl key down.
Face: if activated, faces of 3d solids can be selected directly, without requiring to hold the Ctrl key down.
Boundary: if activated and a closed boundary surrounding the cursor is found, it will become highlighted and selectable. Only linear geometry, curves and planar faces of 3d solids are taken into account during boundary detection.
SELECTIONMODES toolbar: shows the status of the Edge, Face and Boundary selection mode flags and allows to toggle them.
SELECTION of EDGES or FACES using WINDOW SELECTION: pressing the Ctrl key after starting a crossing window selection, toggles between regular selection and edge or face selection. An icon is displayed at the cursor location indicating when edge- or face-crossing-window selection are active.
SHEET SET MANAGER: when a DST file is dropped on the application, it is opened in the Sheet Set Explorer.
New commands were added to convert 3D solids to valid unfoldable sheet metal parts:
SMBENDCREATE: converts hard edges (sharp edges between flange faces) into bends.
SMCONVERT: automatically recognizes flanges and bends in a 3D solid.
SMDELETE: removes a junction by restoring a hard edge between two flanges; removes a flange with all the bends adjacent to it. The adjacent flanges are extended up to a junction configuration with the flange being deleted.
SMDISSOLVE: dissolves sheet metal features.
SMFLANGESPLIT: splits a flange along a line drawn on its face.
SMJUNCTIONCREATE: converts hard edges into junctions.
SMRELIEFCREATE: makes proper corner and bend reliefs. Corner reliefs are built on corners which have three or more adjacent flanges. Bend reliefs are built on the start and end of a flange edge .
SMRETHICKEN: restores the 3D solid model of a sheet metal part by thickening one of its sides (all thickness faces become perpendicular to flange faces).
BENDING TABLES: global Die width parameter can be set in Mechanical Browser for sheet metal parts with attached bend tables. This global value is applied to compute the deduction for all bends, which do not have local Die width parameter set.
CORNER RELIEF: the SMFLANGEEDGE command automatically creates a Corner Relief feature for adjacent edge flanges. It allows to automatically adopt the size of the square relief to future changes of part thickness and bend radius.
SMEXPORT2D: exports the unfolded representation of a sheet metal body as a 2D profile in .dxf/.dwg file format.
SMEXPORTOSM: command to export a sheet metal solid to the .osm file format.
FEATURE DIAGNOSTICS: invalid sheet metal features are automatically marked in red in the Mechanical Browser. Clicking an invalid feature results in displaying a diagnostic message in the status bar.
TIPS: an assistant 'Tips' widget to reveal options available when using a toggle hot key like the Ctrl-key. Clicking the newly added 'Tips' field in the Status Bar activates/deactivates the assistant by setting the new TIPS system variable accordingly. Example: when creating a Polysolid, the justification (Left - Center - Right) can be dynamically toggled using the Ctrl key. The assistant widget appears to make sure this interesting feature does not go unnoticed.
TRANSPARENCY DEPTH: newly added Visual Style setting - default value is 4. Increasing the value increases the number of superposed transparent faces through which one can see during on-screen visualization. When using the Render command to produce an image, the applied transparency depth is 20.
Added possibility to generate a view corresponding to the current view in Model Space.
'Preset' option allows to generate sets of pre-configured Mechanical and Architectural views.
VIEWDETAIL: command to create a viewport showing a detailed view of a Drawing View created with the VIEWBASE or VIEWSECTION commands.
Menu-, toolbar- and ribbon settings can now be stored in Workspaces.
The new 'Get Started' dialog allows to select the initial Workspace when starting BricsCAD.
A new Workspaces toolbar and Combo control have been added.
When switching between Workspaces, additional actions can be configured by customizing the On Switch section of the Workspaces.
WSAUTOSAVE system variable: when switched On, upon switching to another workspace, the toolbar positions of the current workspace are saved in the CUI file. In BricsCAD, the default value for WSAUTOSAVE is On, so current toolbar positions will be saved and restored after switching.
XDWGFADECTL: system variable to control faded display of xref drawings. Not yet supported for rendered display modes.
ZOOMWHEEL system variable and command have been added to toggle the direction of zoom operations when scrolling the middle mouse wheel.
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