The new BricsCAD V20 User Interface

BricsCAD V20 has had a facelift, but it’s not as simple as making a dark UI to reduce eye-strain. A lot of time and development has gone into making a more user-friendly and more intuitive BricsCAD V20 user interface.

BricsCAD V20 Dark mode

Probably the most obvious and talked about development for BricsCAD V20 is the dark mode. This has been designed specifically to reduce eye-strain and was one of the most requested features for V20 from you, our customers. Honestly, we do listen to your feedback!

Creating the dark theme wasn’t simply ‘changing all the background-colors to pure black’. We had to look into every specific component and pick a specific color for it. We chose a dark, slightly blue-grey for the background-color because pure black would be too harsh.

Cleaner Ribbon

The UI improvements don’t stop at color changes the Ribbon also got an overhaul. All workspaces, including BricsCAD BIM, now have a ribbon. This makes the product more consistent across the different workspaces.

The design was also simplified. Unnecessary borders were deleted and it now displays with one, uniform background color.

The icon layout was optimized to ensure that you have all the most important tools at your fingertips. But don’t worry! You can still customize your workspace to get it exactly the way you want. Simply right-click on the Ribbon and select the “customize” option. Here you can tweak your workspace to your heart’s content.

The file menu is now accessible under the BricsCAD icon in the upper left corner similar to other, major CAD software packages.

Sidepanels

There are even more customization options available. The stackable side panels, first introduced in BricsCAD Shape and later on added in the BIM V19 workspace, are now accessible in all workspaces.

Workspace launcher & Landing page

After extensive user feedback, we noticed that there was some confusion regarding the difference between profiles, templates and workspaces and so have taken steps to simplify this. BricsCAD now starts on the Launcher. This allows you to choose your workspace. You have the option to toggle this on or off using the checkbox in the right-hand corner.

After that, the BricsCAD’s Landing page will open and here you can select your template or open a recent file from a thumbnail view. Simple! The left-hand tabs also allow you to navigate to tutorials, sample drawings, and third-party applications.

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