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COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN STYLES..............................................................100 View Detail and Section Styles................................................................................................................. 100 Dimension Styles....................................................................................................................................... 101 Leader and QLeader Styles.......................................................................................................................102 MText and Text Styles.............................................................................................................................. 103 Multiline Styles......................................................................................................................................... 105 Multileader Styles..................................................................................................................................... 105 Plot Styles................................................................................................................................................. 106 Section Styles........................................................................................................................................... 106 Table Styles................................................................................................................................................107 Visual Styles.............................................................................................................................................. 108 4. Customizing and Programming BricsCAD............................ 111 Customization Capabilities........................................................................................................................................ 112 AUTOCAD OPTIONS VS BRICSCAD SETTINGS..............................................113 System Variables and Preferences.............................................................................................. 113 File Paths...................................................................................................................................... 114 AUTOCAD CUI VS BRICSCAD CUSTOMIZE....................................................114 Understanding BricsCAD’s Customization Tree......................................................................... 115 How BricsCAD Customizes Menus........................................................................................................... 116 Tutorial: How to Add a Command to a Menu.......................................................................................... 116 Tips for working with BricsCAD Menus......................................................................................120 Q: Which commands can be add to menus, toolbars, and so on? .........................................................120 Q: What’s the difference between “Insert” and “Append”? ................................................................. 121 Q: What do I do when I mangle a customization? .................................................................................. 121 Creating A New Menu Item in BricsCAD......................................................................................121 Step 1: How to Create Partial Menus in BricsCAD....................................................................................122 Step 2: Adding Custom Commands to BricsCAD.....................................................................................124 About BricsCAD’s Macro Metacharacters................................................................................................126 About BricsCAD’s Menu Design Conventions..........................................................................................126 About Diesel and DCL in BricsCAD............................................................................................................126 Customizing Context Menus.......................................................................................................126 Customizing Toolbars .................................................................................................................. 127 Customizing Ribbon Tabs and Panels ........................................................................................128 Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts ...............................................................................................130 Customizing Mouse Buttons & Double-clicks............................................................................. 131 Double-Click Actions.................................................................................................................................. 131 Customizing Tablet Buttons and Menus..................................................................................... 132 Customizing Quick Properties.....................................................................................................133 vi BricsCAD V17 for AutoCAD Users
Customizing Workspaces and Quad...........................................................................................134 Quad...........................................................................................................................................................134 Customizing Aliases and Shell Commands.................................................................................135 Shell Commands........................................................................................................................................135 Customizing Tools Palettes.........................................................................................................136 OTHER AREAS OF CUSTOMIZATION............................................................ 137 Fonts ............................................................................................................................................137 TrueType Fonts..........................................................................................................................................137 Legalities: About Copying Files .................................................................................................................................137 SHX Fonts.................................................................................................................................................. 138 PFB Fonts.................................................................................................................................................. 138 Font Mapping........................................................................................................................................... 138 eTransmit...................................................................................................................................................139 Linetypes and Hatch Patterns.................................................................................................... 140 Tutorial: How to Copy AutoCAD .lin and .pat Files to BricsCAD............................................................. 140 Plot Styles..................................................................................................................................... 141 Plotter Manager........................................................................................................................................142 SUPPORTED FILES........................................................................................... 142 PROGRAMMING CONSIDERATIONS.............................................................146 BricsCAD V17 Automation Object Model..................................................................................................147 About BRX................................................................................................................................... 148 About TX...................................................................................................................................... 149 About .Net (Windows Only)....................................................................................................... 149 Porting AutoLISP to LISP.............................................................................................................150 Porting DCL to BricsCAD.......................................................................................................................... 150 Porting Diesel to BricsCAD....................................................................................................................... 150 Porting VBA to BricsCAD (Windows Only)..................................................................................150 Porting ADS to SDS......................................................................................................................150 Porting COM to BricsCAD (Windows Only)................................................................................ 151 Loading Applications into BricsCAD............................................................................................ 151 Units...........................................................................................................................................................152 Third-party Developer Support...................................................................................................152 5. Operating Dual-CAD Design Offices.....................................153 WHY USE MORE THAN ONE CAD SYSTEM? ................................................ 154 Lower Total Cost of Ownership...................................................................................................154 Country-Biased Pricing............................................................................................................................. 156 Solutions to High License Fees.................................................................................................................157 Table of Contents vii
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Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents AutoCAD-BricsCAD
Page 5: Tips Widget (BricsCAD Only)........
Page 9 and 10: WORKSPACES, 3D VIEWING, QUAD CURSOR
Page 11 and 12: APPENDICES A. Command Name Cross-re
Page 13 and 14: CHAPTER ONE BricsCAD for AutoCAD Us
Page 15 and 16: Subscriptions. Autodesk made annual
Page 17 and 18: ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ Uploa
Page 19 and 20: The BricsCAD Advantage BricsCAD sho
Page 21 and 22: and orders them in hierarchical str
Page 23 and 24: DS Tools from Design Sense adds to
Page 25 and 26: Keep Your BricsCAD If you like your
Page 27 and 28: WHAT’S MISSING FROM BRICSCAD? Bri
Page 29 and 30: Supported Operating Systems Bricsys
Page 31 and 32: ÐÐ ÐÐ Release notes Online tuto
Page 33 and 34: The white layer icon indicates laye
Page 35 and 36: Settings command extends search opt
Page 37 and 38: dimStyle command now offers an Edit
Page 39 and 40: mAutoUpdate variable controls wheth
Page 41 and 42: dmTwist command modifies 3D solids,
Page 43 and 44: 3dCompareMode variable determines i
Page 45 and 46: View properties can be edited befor
Page 47 and 48: WHAT’S NEW IN THE BIM MODULE BIM
Page 49 and 50: smForm command converts a selected
Page 51 and 52: WHAT’S NEW IN FILES AppLoad comma
Page 53 and 54: CHAPTER TWO Comparing User Interfac
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Start Screens BricsCAD and AutoCAD
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‘:’ VS ‘TYPE A COMMAND’ For
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The Prompt Menu Flags option is a b
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Editing with the Quad With the Quad
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TOURING THE SETTINGS DIALOG BOX Thi
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By clicking the Find , button, you
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ACCESSING AND MOVING BRICSCAD PANEL
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The toolbar of the Layers panel in
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MECHANICAL BROWSER VS PARAMETRICS M
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Double-click a file name to open th
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Additional status items with AutoCA
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DIFFERENCES IN VIEW CUBES AutoCAD h
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BricsCAD’s Select command display
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Above: AutoCAD’s Design Center. B
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ÐÐ Project administration for ass
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CHAPTER THREE Compatibility of Draw
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CHECKLIST OF DWG 2017 ENTITIES The
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The dashes ( — ) in “read / —
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Multilines BricsCAD reads and creat
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HISTORY OF BRICSCAD’S DWG SUPPORT
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Array Rectangular Associative Hatch
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TEXT ENTITIES BricsCAD accurately d
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DimInspect AutoCAD BricsCAD * read
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Radius Dimensional Constraint Verti
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Underlays AutoCAD BricsCAD * partia
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3D Solids AutoCAD BricsCAD read / c
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NURBS Planar Revolve Sweep 3 Compat
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The differences in layer properties
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Left: AutoCAD’s tabbed Modify Det
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BricsCAD supports all the QLeader o
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Multiline Styles BricsCAD creates m
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Section styles are created and modi
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Shaded shaded with Edges shades of
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CHAPTER FOUR Customizing and Progra
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AutoCAD Options vs BricsCAD Setting
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The process for customizing each of
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This reveals the items in the File
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c. Click OK. Notice that the “Clo
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Q: What’s the difference between
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4. Under My Tutorial, right-click M
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4. The toolbox created. Go ahead an
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As with menus, the list of items in
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Tabs. Just as a ribbon is just a li
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CUSTOMIZING MOUSE BUTTONS & DOUBLE-
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After downloading, load the tablet.
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CUSTOMIZING ALIASES AND SHELL COMMA
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Other Areas of Customization Custom
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Both CAD systems use the same simpl
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5. Choose the .lin file you wish to
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.xlg .xlg Xref log files .$$$ ... E
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.tga .tga Raster format (Targa) fil
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BricsCAD V17 Automation Object Mode
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ABOUT TX The TX SDK produces TX mod
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(ADS is short for AutoCAD Developme
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CHAPTER FIVE Operating Dual-CAD Des
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Upgrades. Following the initial lic
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Choosing an international location
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provides other resources, such as a
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Running BricsCAD & AutoCAD in One O
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STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION While seve
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Tutorial: How to Add AutoCAD’s Su
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To save the current user interface
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BricsCAD’s roamable files consist
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Tutorial: Making Hidden Folders Vis
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6. In the Customize dialog box, rig
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User Interface To fix the two probl
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My favorite feature about Linux is
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So, it can be hard — no, confusin
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CHAPTER SIX Working in 3D BRICSCAD
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BricsCAD’s Direct Modeling vs Aut
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Direct Modeling Tutorial To see how
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c. Draw a circle 65mm in diameter.
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Workspaces, 3D Viewing, Quad Cursor
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Click a triangle to change the view
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WORKING WITH THE QUAD CURSOR All ed
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WORKING WITH A 3D MOUSE BricsCAD su
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3D Design Intent BricsCAD Platinum
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c. Click the dmExtrude button. (It
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Mechanical Browser & Hardware Libra
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To pick a part from the library, fo
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Modeling and Deforming 3D Surfaces
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Accessing Assembly Commands ÐÐ En
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6. With the two parts in the drawin
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With the parts are attached to one
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6. Move the mouse to rotate the mec
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The first view placed is the front
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Section and Detail Styles You can c
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3D Compare (new to V17) The 3dCompa
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CHAPTER SEVEN BIM, Sheet Metal, & C
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HOW BIM DESIGN WORKS BIM designs co
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5. The next step is to tell BricsCA
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The walls look no different, and ch
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Accessing BIM Commands ÐÐ Enter o
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TUTORIAL I: HOW SHEET METAL DESIGN
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6. Should you wish to change the an
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Adding Form Features (new to V17) F
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1. Start BricsCAD in the Sheet Meta
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c. From the Sheet Metal ribbon’s
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9. A few other corners need to be t
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Accessing Sheet Metal Commands ÐÐ
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Export Formats Supported Standard F
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APPENDIX A Command Name Cross-refer
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AutoCAD Command BricsCAD Command No
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APPENDIX B System Variable Cross-re
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AutoCAD AutoCAD’s BricsCAD’s Br
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APPENDIX C Command Alias Cross-refe
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AutoCAD Command AutoCAD Alias Brics
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APPENDIX D Keystroke & Button Cross
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CTRL/CMD KEYS To operate Ctrl-key s
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SHIFT KEYS Shift keys are temporary
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Mouse and Tablet Buttons The follow
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The tablet overlay provided by Bric
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3D MOUSE CONTROLS AND BUTTONS AutoC
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