Which file formats are supported by BricsCAD?

Natively BricsCAD only supports DWG/DXF. Settings allows to save a DWG to a specific DWG (DXF) revision. See 'Save as' in the help project. Alternatively the Export command allows to export drawings to a variety of vector and raster formats. See 'Export' in the help project.

Apart from DWG format, BricsCAD is also able to handle Acis (.SAT) files. BricsCAD can import (/export) .SAT (=Acis) files via the ACISIN, ACISOUT commands respectively.

There is no direct support to import STEP/IGES or SolidWorks formats in BricsCAD. However there are many additional applications which will perform data exchange/transformation.

 

VECTOR FILES

1.DWG format import/export

• open DWG/DXF/DWT
• saveas DWG/DXF/DWT
• export DWF

 

Non-DWG formats:

• IFC: IFC files can be imported/exported via Import/Export command
• SKP: Sketchup files can be imported
• DGN: DGN files can be imported
• SAT: ACIS sat files can be imported/exported via acis-in acis-out
• IGS, STP, SLDPRT are not supported in plain BricsCAD, but are imported/exported with use of an optional module: BricsCAD Communicator, along with several other 3D MCAD modeling formats. Please read below for complete information.

 

RASTER files (also known as BITMAP or IMAGE files):

Import/Attach

Strictly speaking, you cannot import a RASTER image into a DWG. The DWG format is, in essence, a Vector and not a Raster format. BricsCAD does, however, enable you to attach a raster file as a background image. This is achieved via the Image Enabler.

 

Supported formats include:

.BMP, .TIFF, .JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .WMF, .EMF, .PCX, .RAS, .TGA

V9.1.1 and higher: Support for ECW images.

V10.1.4 and higher: support of MrSID images. LizardTech's MrSID is one of the leading geospatial imagery formats.

Raster image files can have 'world files' or 'position files' associated to them. A world file is a text file which describes the size (scale), the orientation and the coordinates of the raster map images. Position file are typically used in GIS. Supported position file formats are:

.TFW , .RAT, .JPW, .PNGW

 

EXPORT

You can save screen view to raster format via file>export. The SLIDE command also produces raster files (.SLD).

If you use a virtual printer like PDFCreator or PDF995, CutePDF, you can produce (large scale) PDF output.

Finally, many 'external' programs allow you to save a screen copy.