Bricsys Unveils Bricscad V12 for Linux

Offering 3D modeling and CAD API programming for Linux, Bricsys has released Bricscad V12 for the Linux operating system. According to the company, Bricscad V12 offers the same features as offered in Windows.

Together with dynamic dimensions to allow fast and accurate modeling operations, the Pro edition of Bricscad V12 for Linux offers powerful 3D direct modeling, the modern way to design products in 3D. Switching between familiar environments and direct modeling operations, users are able to toggle smoothly between 2D and 3D design modes, the company stated in a press release.

“Through our contacts with Linux users, we have come to understand their strong need for a professional 3D engineering solution,” explained Erik De Keyser, CEO of Bricsys. “The release of Bricscad V12 Pro and Platinum makes it clear that we have made this happen. Together with the many APIs we released for Linux over the last twelve months, we achieved our goal of creating the building blocks for a real .dwg-based engineering platform for Linux.”

Similar to that found in much more expensive CAD packages, all editions of the new Bricscad V12 for Linux software feature a 2D constraint solver. Users are able to attach many kinds of constraints to 2D elements, including perpendicular, parallel, and concentric.

Also, apart from offering features such as model in 2D and 3D with visual styles, other improvements common to all editions include the ability to trim hatches, add custom hatch patterns, define page setups, and generate live section planes.

In other news from October 2011, Menhirs NV, the parent company of Bricsys NV, announced that it had acquired the intellectual property rights for several flagship software products from LEDAS.

The acquired IP consists of the source code to LGS 2D, LGS 3D, Driving Dimensions, RhinoWorks, and other programs used by the computer-aided design industry.