BricsCAD Shape - Free 3D CAD from Bricsys

The other day, a new CAD product from Bricsys was quietly and almost imperceptibly released under Linux, thus adding another must-have tool for virtual prototyping to Linux.




Links for those who want to try / evaluate, the versions for Windows and MAC are also available:
download page
Bricscad Shape Lessons
lessons on the official YouTube channel

I downloaded the package when installing on Debian installed with errors / unmet dependencies. I had to deliver libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, which in turn pulled several more packages with it.



Launch window



After launching the main window, I had a persistent feeling of something familiar, somewhere I had already seen a “painter” with a little man on the axis of coordinates :-)



When restarting, I tried to open one of my projects and ... it fell



This behavior was observed if you open third-party / finished projects from the launch window, but if you open it immediately after launching the main window from the menu, then everything is fine for editing and saving.





As a conclusion, a special IMHO. The tool at Bricsys came out quite fit, at first sensations something in between SketchUp and AutoCad.

Pros:
- 146% free, without SMS
- simple and intuitive interface
- 3D solid modeling
- accuracy and support of teams as in classical CAD
- availability of a library of materials and components
- full compatibility of output files with AutoCad, saving in formats .dwg, dxf, .dwt

Minuses:
- proprietary software
- while there is no localization in Russian, only English
- sometimes falls