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VARIATIONS IN DESIGNCENTER & DRAWING EXPLORER
BricsCAD’s Drawing Explorer is best compared with AutoCAD’s DesignCenter, but Explorer reports
more information and provides greater control over drawing elements. Drawing Explorer centralizes
in BricsCAD what in AutoCAD amounts to as many separate dialog boxes; facilities such as
layer management, UCS control, and control of external references are in one location. (Autodesk
appears to be copying BricsCAD by amalgamating similar commands, such as Attach.)
Drawing Explorer handles all named entities, and these are listed in the table below.
AutoCAD’s
BricsCAD’s
DesignCenter Node Drawing Explorer Node Alternate Commands
Blocks
Blocks
... Chapoo (in Folders tab) SaveToCloud command (Autodesk 360)
... Coordinate Systems UcsMan command in AutoCAD
... Dependencies eTransmit command in AutoCAD
DetailViewStyles ... ViewDetailStyle command in BricsCAD
Dimstyles
Dimension Styles
Xrefs
External References
... Images ExternalReferences command in AutoCAD
Layers
Layers
... Layer States LayerStates command in AutoCAD
... Lights LightList command in AutoCAD
Linetypes
Linetypes
... Materials MatBrowserOpen command in AutoCAD
Layouts
Page Setups
... Multiline Styles MlStyle command in AutoCAD
Multileaderstyles
Multileader Styles
... PDF Underlays PDFAttach command in AutoCAD
... Render Presets RenderPresets command in AutoCAD
... Section Planes SectionPlaneSettings command in AutoCAD
SectionViewStyles ... ViewSectionStyle command in BricsCAD
Tablestyles
Table Styles
Textstyles
Text Styles
... Views View command in AutoCAD
VisualStyles
Visual Styles
To access BricsCAD’s Drawing Explorer, enter the Explorer command. BricsCAD displays Drawing
Explorer automatically when you enter related commands, such as Layer or Xref.
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