BricsCAD and AutoCAD feature comparison


Drawings
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Native DWG file format (thru AutoCAD 2021)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Password Protection	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
eTransmit	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Sheet Set Manager	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Geographic Location	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Drawing Compare	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cloud Collaboration	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓


Interface
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Dark and Light Color Themes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Industry standard commands, aliases, and variables	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Command Line (Autocomplete, Midstring, Clickable options)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Start tab	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
File (Drawing) tabs	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Model and Layout tabs	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Layout Manager	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Menu bar	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Toolbars	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ribbon	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Tool Palettes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Contextual Right-click Menus	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Contextual Quad Menu	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Status Bar	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Workspaces	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Searchable Settings (Variables) Dialog Box	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Lockable Interface	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Clean Screen Mode	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Drawing Explorer	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Customizable User Interface (CUI)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Structure Browser	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o


Selection, snap & track
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Selection Filtering (QSELECT)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Add Selected	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Select Similar	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Selection Cycling	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Entity Snaps (Osnaps)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Polar Tracking	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Zintersection 3D snap	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Nearest Distance	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Adaptive Gridsnap	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Real-time boundary detection	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
2D Dynamic UCS	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
3D Dynamic UCS	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓


Drawing tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Line, Polyline, 3D Polyline, Spline, Ray, Xline	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multiline and Multiline Styles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Circle, Arc, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Polygon, Rectangle, Region, Donut, Point	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Helix	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
2D Parameters, Constraints	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
2D Autoconstrain	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	2	2


Annotation tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Dimensions, Dimension Styles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multi-leaders, Multi-leader Styles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Single and Multi-line text, Text Styles, Text Editor	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Hatches, Gradients, Hatch/Gradient Editor	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Wipeouts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Revision Clouds	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Attributes, Attribute Editor	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Tables, Table Styles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fields	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Date Extraction	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Data Linking	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Annotation Scaling	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Spell Check	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓


Editing tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch, Mirror, Align	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Trim, Extend, Lengthen, Break, Join	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Fillet, Chamfer	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
CopyGuided	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
MoveGuided	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Grip Edit	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Properties panel	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Manipulator (3D Gizmo)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Draworder	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Undo Per Entity (Property History)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Optimize	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Simplify	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o


Reference tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Blocks, Block Editor	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dynamic Blocks	1	1	1	1	1	✓	✓
Block Face Camera	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Blockify	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Associative Arrays	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Dwg (Xref) Attach, Clip, Bind, Edit	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
PDF Attach, Clip	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Image Attach, Clip, Adjust, Transparency	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Point Clouds Colormap	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓


Visualization tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Layers, Layer States	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Transparency	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Visual Styles	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
LookFrom (ViewCube™)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Match Perspective	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Lights	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Sun Properties	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Materials	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Render	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Animation Editor	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Walkthrough navigation	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
ANIPATH command	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓


Modeling tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
ACIS Modeling	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Solid and Surface Modeling	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Solid Primitives	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Mesh Primitives	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Polysolid	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Union, Subtract, Intersect, Interfere	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Extrude, Revolve, Loft, Sweep, Thicken	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Twist	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Fillet, Chamfer	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Slice	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Multi-slice	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
T Connect, L Connect, Connect with Nearest	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Extract Edges	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Direct modeling	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Deformable (Freeform) Modeling	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Audit, Simplify	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Stitch	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
3D Parameters, Constraints	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
3D Autoparametrize	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
3D Blockify and ParametricBlockify	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
3D Parametric Design Tables	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Section planes	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Drawing Views	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
3D Threads	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Point Cloud Align	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Point Cloud Bubble Viewer	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o


Civil tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
TIN Surface Modeling	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
TIN Volume Surface	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Grading	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Alignments	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Corridors	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Civil 3D Object Enabler	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Architectural Desktop Object Enabler	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
CADWorx Object Enabler	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓


Architectural tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
BIM features	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Structural Modeling Toolset	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Project Database	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Library Database	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Site, Building and Stories	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Windows and Doors	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Fully Parametric BIM Component Creation	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
3D Spaces	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
Quickdraw	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Quickbuilding	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Point Cloud Floor Detection	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Point Cloud Projection	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Point Cloud Geometry Detection	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Point Cloud FitPlanar (geometry detection)	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Propagate	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Custom BIM Properties	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Drawing Customizations	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Analytical Model	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
Python Scripts (Beta)	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o


Mechanical tools
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Mechanical Browser	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Parts Library	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Piping	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Assembly Modeling	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Exploded Views	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Kinematic Analysis	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Bill of Materials	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Sheet Metal Design	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
3D Solids to Sheet Metal Parts Conversion	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Corner Relief for Adjacent Edge Flanges	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Lofted Bends	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Coloring	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Diagnostic for Invalid Sheet Metal Features	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o
Batch Processing	o	o	o	✓	✓	o	o


Import, export, output
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Print/Plot	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Publish/Batch Plot	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
CTB & STB Table Files	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
PC3 Printer Configuration Files	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Named Page Setups	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
PDF Import, Export	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
DAE Import, Export	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
IFC Import, Export	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	✓
3DM Import, Export	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
LandXML Import, Export	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
RFA Import	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
SKP Import	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
DGN Import	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
RVT Import	o	o	✓	o	✓	o	o
DWF Export	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
SVG Export	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
FBX Export	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
STL Export	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Point Cloud Export	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Additional formats available with BricsCAD Communicator	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o


Programming
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
ActiveX	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Entity data editor	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Script Recorder	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Full LISP Support (vl, vlr, vla and vlax)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Solutions Development System (SDS/ADS)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
DCL engine	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
COM API	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
VBA DVB projects support	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
.NET	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
BRX (ARX)	o	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	✓
TX (Teigha eXtensions)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
CUI menu files support, with Diesel expressions	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓


Licensing
BricsCAD®						AutoCAD®
	Lite	Pro	BIM	Mechanical	Ultimate	LT	Full
Multi-platform Licenses	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Perpetual	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Perpetual + Maintenance	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Subscription	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Network Multi-user	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Volume (Perpetual)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	o	o
Academic	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓