![]() If the funds become available, rather than stay with BricsCAD, I may jump over to SolidWorks for 3D modeling, since it is a much more mature 3D parametric modeling package. (moving features to a different specialized program) It is looking now like my license my never get upgraded, I realize that it added features, but if I had a choice I would have preferred lower cost, and just minor improvements without the de-featuring. I too, had wished that Bricsys had not started to go up significantly in price. When you add parametrics to the mix, things get 10x worse. I often have to deal with the messes in DWG files from other companies, that their CAD guys leave behind, because they don't understand AutoCAD's block behavior. If you don't intimately understand how it is going to behave, you are going to spend hours and even days trying to understand why your program is behaving a certain way. on/off settings for a layer affect how a multi-layer block behaves. That is why BricsCAD has been so faithful to maintain a great deal of AutoCAD compatibility.įor example, the behavior of how a block acts on layer 0, vs. But, a CAD program has quite a lot more knowledge needed that is not necessarily transferable to a new program. Knowledge of how a word processor works is pretty easy to transfer to other programs. Unless you are talking about extremely basic CAD usage, I disagree. I think they are aware of this because they recently sponsored a popular Revit YouTuber's video. Revit is not that great of a program in my opinion, but the large user base has found many crafty ways of getting around the programs limitations and shortcomings. And rarely end users who create commercially viable end results. Most the BricsCAD content is made by Bricsys themselves. If you look on YouTube, there are thousands upon thousands of Revit videos. One reason nearly nobody uses the 'BIM' component is because, simply, nobody uses the BIM component. They should focus on increasing their user base instead of charging the highest possible price for their product. I like the product though (I'm going to get Lite most likely). The pricing system is very convoluted and confusing. ![]() I've been stuck on the fence regarding the purchase of BricsCAD. They seem to have more resources tied up in useless features that nobody will use rather than making ACAD run absolutely perfect. I'm hoping BricsCAD doesn't go the same route AutoCAD does: In my opinion I think that Autodesk is forcing AutoCAD users to help pay the development costs of their other software programs. There are so many competitors that they'd be stupid to do that they keep it reasonably cheap to preserve their user base. Imagine Microsoft forcing users to pay thousands per year for MS Word. To me a CAD program is a basic staple, like a word processor. if you need Mechanical or BIM compared to e.g. That being said, the cost of entry into the BricsCAD system has definitely increased noticeably over the past few years once you go beyond lite, though it is still more affordable than the established products e.g. Apart from that one change it seems to be reasonably stable at the moment as long as they keep the yearly price increases for inflation etc. When Hexagon bought BricsCAD it made me wonder if there would be a shift to corporate users and pricing because that is where the big money is, also because of the maintenance price increased by 50% (from 20% to 30% of the cost of a new license) when Hexagon took over. Fortunately for me BricsCAD was then at such a level that I could easily ditch AutoCAD at that point. This was to be expected when they introduced subscription, the moment Adesk mentioned they would no longer sell new licenses I knew that at some point they would start jacking up the maintenance renewal price to subscription level at some point, which is what they did start doing a year or four ago. It was the way the email was worded and how no reseller even mentioned it prior to handing over a £5k lump sum a few months before. Totally agree, I spent almost £10K with awfuldesk over a 3 year period with perpetual Design suite and Revit, and out of the blue they said you will now have to pay more for your maintenance or swap everything to subscriptions because we are now scrapping perpetual licenses. This cloak of slimy deals from the adesk side is the thing to watch for. No problem if they simply say they need to make more money. Its when they start telling us we asked for things they decided to do to help their business. Paying for the tools is not the hard part.
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