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OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23770/Bricscad_V10_for_Linux_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:44:13 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439715 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439715 anyone used this? If this turns out to be a good piece of software that will be one less thing i have to use windows for. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments RE: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439723 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439723 how can an autocad-clone be a good pice of software?
autocad was already out-dated 15 years ago Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments RE[2]: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439725 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439725 Given the rather limited *cough* amount of CAD applications available for Linux I really wouldn't complain :S Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments RE[3]: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439733 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439733 And being a standard is sadly more important than being a good piece of software. Some industry-standard software exist only to prove this sentence right everyday (everyone will have some names in mind, sadly I can't reveal those in my own mind without being flagged as troll

).Edited 2010-09-07 20:30 UTC Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments RE[4]: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439736 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439736

And being a standard is sadly more important than being good.

autocad has lost it's standard-position long ago
there isn't much left of the autocad-kingdom besides architecture
everything else has moved on to 3d a decade ago Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smashIt) Comments RE[5]: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439752 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439752 AutoCAD does 3D, their market share is over 55% of the CAD market. The closest competitor is at 15%.

http://frombulator.com/2009/10/cad-marketshare-bim-marketshare-inst... Edited 2010-09-07 21:38 UTC Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tylerdurden) Comments Already available CAD software for Linux http://www.osnews.com/thread?439754 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439754 VariCAD for Windows and Linux can handle DWG/DXF/STEP/IGES/etc.
http://www.varicad.com/en/home/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jello) Comments RE: Already available CAD software for Linux http://www.osnews.com/thread?439792 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439792 The VariCAD website says it only does 2D DWG import/export. The Bricsys website says it "offers full-function 2D/3D DWG-based CAD ..." Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hypnos) Comments re: Autocad being old and outdated... http://www.osnews.com/thread?439793 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439793 I've worked in institutions that remain WAYYYY behind in software (including OS) versions. If there is no immediate need or compelling reason to upgrade their software, they simply don't.

Banking institutions are pretty notorious for not wanting to change once some framework is in place. They only upgrade when they are told the software they are running will no longer be supported by the company who made it. And even then they will resort to in-house support (at least they used to, I've been out of that industry for awhile now).

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My point being any apps that support older formats would be welcomed I am sure.Edited 2010-09-08 00:41 UTC Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments RE: re: Autocad being old and outdated... http://www.osnews.com/thread?439810 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439810 Sometimes, it's a healthy approach to take. An old software has been tested and patched several for several years, there are no surprise bugs that could affect the daily operation of the company. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quake) Comments RE[5]: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439814 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439814

autocad has lost it's standard-position long ago

Autocad isn't the standard that Briscad implement. DWG format files is the (defacto) standard, not Autocad.

Read about it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Design_Alliance

and here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwg

DWG ("drawing") is a file format used for storing two and three dimensional design data and metadata. It is the native format for several CAD packages including AutoCAD, IntelliCAD (and its variants) and Caddie.

Bricscad uses the IntelliCAD engine. Bricscad is therefore a variant of IntelliCAD.

The DWG file format itself is the critical issue. Because many companies have existing large libraries of DWG-format files, the IP of those engineering companies is dependent on, and tied up in, the DWG format.

Autodesk (Autocad vendors) have for many years tried to use the DWG file format as a form of lock-in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwg#Legal_issues
Ultimately they did not succeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricscad

Bricscad is a CAD package developed by Bricsys, it was originally built using the IntelliCAD engine. It is designed for Windows and is among the few commercially supported CAD packages which runs on Linux.

Bricscad uses the Open Design Alliance DWG libraries to read and write the DWG file format made popular by the AutoCAD CAD package.

The DWG file format is the native file format of the Bricscad CAD software package.Edited 2010-09-08 05:12 UTC Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemur2) Comments Very impressive http://www.osnews.com/thread?439832 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439832 Look at the feature to feature comparison:

http://www.bricsys.com/en_INTL/bricscad/comparison.jsp Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (porcel) Comments RE[5]: interesting http://www.osnews.com/thread?439841 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439841 Well, at least on civil engineering they are thriving (actually, is really hard to see something else being used) and still is used on mechanical and electrical ones, specially inside the structural design. For the last two it was really not the best fit to design parts, even if I saw sometimes it being used. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (acobar) Comments Yawn... http://www.osnews.com/thread?439918 http://www.osnews.com/thread?439918 While the featureset looks quite impressive, especially given the price (which is tiny by CAD standards), for the average Linux user, this is still an expensive piece of software. Given that most desktop Linux users are looking for free stuff, I suspect that this will go over worse than a lead balloon in the market. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments RE: Yawn... http://www.osnews.com/thread?440008 http://www.osnews.com/thread?440008

While the featureset looks quite impressive, especially given the price (which is tiny by CAD standards), for the average Linux user, this is still an expensive piece of software. Given that most desktop Linux users are looking for free stuff, I suspect that this will go over worse than a lead balloon in the market.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/linapp-website-provides-an-aweso...

http://lin-app.com/Edited 2010-09-09 11:20 UTC Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lemur2) Comments