![]() Notice I didn't write "MCAD" Bricsys wants to dominate in both BIM and MCAD through that triad developed earlier by LEDAS. CEO Erik de Keyser gave programmers this instruction: Make BricsCAD the leading 3D CAD program by 2020. Four years ago, they aqui-hired staff and intellectual property from LEDAS, forming Bricys Tech Russia. I wrote last week about the passion of Robert Graebert to expand his brilliant OS/hardware-independent CAD system onto everything through OEMing - but limited in areas related to 3D due to an arrangement with major licensee Dassault Systemes.Įnter Bricsys, a company that in one form or another has been around since 1999. Small companies have no such worry, and so get to energize their passions. What they needed was a savior to believe in them.īig companies expend their energy catering to shareholder opinions. ![]() When LEDAS implemented their philosophy as software, it found modest success as an add-on to Rhino and SketchUp. ![]() Design history - remembers how the designer arrived at his creation, without the curse of the history tree.3D constraints and parametrics - controls elemental relationships, and provides configurations.Direct modeling and editing - handles any kind of model, native or imported.To anyone who would listen (and frankly there were not many), they evangelized this trinitarian system: This gave them the space to think about how 3D CAD ought to work. The mathematicians who work at Siberian consulting firm LEDAS had been working on parts of Catia and other software from Dassault Systemes. So let's put it another way: what happens when you ask them to write algorithms for an ideal 3D CAD approach. What happens when you give Russian programmers a blank slate, asking them to yet again reinvent 3D CAD? Well, not a fully blank slate even Pro/E's approach - also developed by Russian programmers - was based on earlier work in parametrics from England. Other significant paradigm shifts came from SpaceClaim's anti-Pro/E direct modeling and Autodesk's Fusion of desktop and server-based calculations. Most famous of all was the unleashing of Pro/Engineer and its history-based parametrically-driven design environment, which forever changed the way MCAD was done. We've seen MCAD vendors reinvent 3D software several times since the dawn of CAD.
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