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DS Tools from Design Sense adds to BricsCAD’s basic sheet metal capabilities with blank development, strip
layouts, punch designs, dieset designs, manufacturing bills of material, and quotations.
http://www.thedesignsense.com/DSTools
Range of tasks performed by DS Tools
At time of writing, more than 400 applications are available for BricsCAD. For the complete list,
visit the company’s Applications Store at https://www.bricsys.com/applications.
No-charge Developer Network
Bricsys does not charge third-party developers a fee; Autodesk charges an annual fee of $1,400
and up. You do not pay Bricsys a fee to join, you do not pay an annual membership, you do not pay
for support, and you do not pay royalties on shipping products.
The reason support is free is because Bricsys feels that to become a successful CAD company it needs
to encourage the development of many, many add-on applications — currently 1,500, a number that
includes ones written privately. The company feels so strongly about third-party development that
it has halted development of its own add-ons, except for a few that benefit many users.
Bricsys now concentrates on two tasks:
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Improving BricsCAD
Adding to APIs
End users also benefit from APIs. (The application programming interface is the software link
between CAD software and programming languages/compilers.) When a third-party developer
requests an addition to the API, the added code becomes a new feature in BricsCAD that end users
can employ.
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