![]() It was much easier to quickly fire up BricsCAD, use the STYLE command which opens the Drawing Explorer in the Text Style section, and see all of the text styles laid out at once (see above). It was possible to fix this in an earlier or later AutoCAD release, which the users may or may not have available to them, by opening the drawing, using the STYLE command, then using that dialog box to go through each text style one at a time, looking for big fonts. Some trial and error made it possible to discover that the trigger for this was the existence of a text style (any text style) with a big font attached, where the big font SHX file did not exist. One example arose showing how useful this is, when my users were having an intermittent problem with some drawings locking up AutoCAD 2015 on open. ![]() Of particular importance is the Drawing Explorer, which provides a consistent and efficient interface that provides access to over 20 different types of aspects of a drawing (e.g. Closing and opening AutoCAD is painfully slow these days as the bloat gets worse, so having a product that fires up quickly is very handy.Īlso handy is the availability of tools within the product that make it easier to locate and fix problems. One thing that was particularly pleasant about using BricsCAD to fix problem drawings was the speed at which it could be done, because of BricsCAD’s generally superior performance. However, I don’t have the experience with those products to be able to confirm that.Īutodesk’s DWG TrueView, being a cut-down AutoCAD, tends to have the same problems as AutoCAD. Note that you may be able to obtain similar results using other DWG-based products such as DraftSight, ZWCAD or even the free BricsCAD Shape. In other cases I could use BricsCAD to recover the unrecoverable using the traditional methods of WBLOCK, saving as an earlier release, saving as DXF, binary search (I may do a later post on exactly what that means), and so on. In many cases an AUDIT in BricsCAD and a re-save was enough to make the problem go away in AutoCAD. Maybe 80-90% of my “problem” drawings were problems for AutoCAD alone. On the contrary, BricsCAD was much more forgiving than AutoCAD, breezing through the process of opening drawings that had problems that originated in AutoCAD. ![]() I don’t think I came across a single drawing that AutoCAD could open but BricsCAD couldn’t. ![]() I was expecting BricsCAD to have all those problems, plus perhaps some additional incompatibilities of its own. Some of those problems occurred while performing some kind of editing or processing, while others prevented AutoCAD from opening the drawing at all. Over the years, I collected a variety of DWGs that gave various releases of AutoCAD some problems. One of the things that surprised me most when evaluating BricsCAD as a potential replacement for AutoCAD was that my expectations were wrong when it came to the reliability of opening DWGs. The first post is about using BricsCAD to fix up drawings that are giving your AutoCAD users problems. Why? There are too many reasons to fit in one blog post, so I’m going to do a mini-series. Here’s a mega-tip with a lot of experience behind it:Īs a CAD Manager looking after AutoCAD users, or a power user looking after yourself, it’s worth your while to have a copy of BricsCAD handy. Read on further, here is Steve’s post, Part 1: Of course, that was about Lisp programming them, but it all adds up to a similar situation. The reason I have decided to reproduce this because I am fully in support of what he writes and have, in fact, advocated the same many times to my customers and have also written a similar piece in one of my earlier blog posts, Why Lisp Programming is Better in BricsCAD than AutoCAD. Part 1-Steve Johnson Blogs : Why every AutoCAD CAD Manager should have a copy of BricsCAD – part 1, fixing drawingsīengaluru, India This is a reproduction of the posts from Steve Johnson’s blog CAD Nauseam, with full permissions and credits. ![]()
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