I'm on my 30 day free trial. I already know that I am going to run out of time before I can really explore the program. The way I was able to learn your biggest rival's products was due to their student licensing scheme. I think that's a huge reason why they carry so much market share. Autodesk products are in every college/university in the U.S. and Canada. As a potential freelancer I am leaning towards Autodesk's AutoCAD LT/Revit LT Suite; a somewhat painful decision as LISP programming is one of my favorite hobbies. But the price actually makes sense.

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Looking back to how I learnt Revit, I recall that they had very generous student licensing. It also doesn't hurt that Autodesk products exist in nearly every college and university in the U.S. and Canada. Autodesk has leveraged this to increase their user-base, which is perhaps even more important than the quality of the software itself. I think for BricsCAD BIM to be successful, the user base has to increase. I think that many would agree with me when I say most people won't jump from Autodesk products to BricsCAD BIM if they have to either pay the 1-year subscription fee, nor the perpetual license cost, without knowing whether or not BricsCAD BIM is a viable option. There's no avoiding the fact that Bricsys has to increase their 'BIM' user base, and have some suggestions:

• Provide a longer free trial.
• Provide free 1-year BricsCAD BIM trials for existing BricsCAD licensees. This could attract more people to BricsCAD software itself.
• Create an online BricsCAD BIM course (which includes a student license). Not many schools even know about BricsCAD, so this might be worth the investment. And users would likely be willing to pay a modest fee.
• Lower the price of BIM until it the user base becomes larger. Lowering the price of the subscription may alone be enough. I think the $2,000+ for the perpetual license will deter a lot of users until the program gains a larger following. But more users might be willing to pay a lower subscription fee while they assess whether or not the program is a viable option.

To summarize, I think that Bricsys would do well to increase their user base. I feel like after weight my options, all the pro's and con's, the scale is barely tipping in favor of... big evil... I see tons of potential on BricsCAD's end. I'm also surprised that so few people still have no idea about the software (which highlights my point about the user base).

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BricsCAD BIM Features

With BricsCAD BIM you can design walls, windows, doors and more from scratch,
or use the extensive design sets to just drag and drop elements. Easy, fast and smart.

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Powerful Multipurpose BIM Explorer

The same flexibility BricsCAD offers in 3D modeling, it also offers in attaching information to building elements.

Explorer
Navigate swiftly through all building data thanks to the customizable data explorer.

Compositions
Browse predefined compositions or create your own.

Library
BricsCAD BIM includes an extensive library of windows, doors etc.

Draw Walls Easy and Quickly

BricsCAD BIM allows you to easily modify positions and dimensions. To design walls in BIM, draw their footprints in 2D and then pull them up to the desired level. You can also specify their level by entering dimensions interactively.

Windows and Doors

Arrays of windows and doors are included in the BricsCAD BIM design sets. To specify windows and doors, choose or modify a design from the library or create your own designs from scratch.

Explore Your Model from Site to Room Level of Detail

To give you greater flexibility in developing BIM designs, a single drawing file contains a “site,” which can have multiple “buildings,” with each building holding one or more “stories.” The default drawing holds one building with three stories. You specify properties for the new site, building, and story elements.

Building

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Easily attach information to building elements

The same flexibility BricsCAD offers in 3D modeling, it also offers in attaching information to building elements. BricsCAD stores building materials and compositions in its project database. All BIM database features are accessible through the dockable BIM panel.

Building materials contain information about specific materials along with layer names and rendering definitions.

You can add a custom number of tags to a building composition. Those tags will serve as a filter when searching through your database for compositions.

Reuse compositions across projects

The library database included with BricsCAD allows you to reuse compositions and building materials across multiple BIM projects. To share information among databases, simply drag building materials and compositions from one database to another.

V17Create Detail Sections

Create a detail section using the option named “Detail” of the bimSection command. Define the volume of the section by specifying three corner points. It uses the dynamic UCS as the base of the box; the base plane is also the section plane.

V17Match Perspective

Overlay your rendered model on a photograph using existing vanishing points and angular lines for a most realistic fit.

Sections and Sheet Sets

The redesigned drawing generation feature lets you generate sheet sets in seconds. The dockable Sheet Set manager offers smooth navigation between the project drawings.

• Flexible Document Navigation
• Easy Creation Of Sheet Selection Sets
• Easy Creation Of Associative View Label Blocks
• One-button Publish Of Sheet Selection Set
• One-click Insertion Of Sheet List Table

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