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- BRICSCAD VS AUTOCAD PRICING SOFTWARE
- BRICSCAD VS AUTOCAD PRICING LICENSE
- BRICSCAD VS AUTOCAD PRICING PLUS
I plan to follow up with Autodesk to see if I can reactivate my v2013 install, just so I can have it available if something comes up.
BRICSCAD VS AUTOCAD PRICING LICENSE
The base license is $520, which is only $25 more than the 2013 cost of my AutoCAD subscription.
BRICSCAD VS AUTOCAD PRICING PLUS
I sprung for the All-In package (1 year of updates and priority email support, plus a copy of Ralph Grabowski's Customizing BricsCAD), which set me back a total of $690. The AutoLISP support is impressive, in some ways even better than Autodesk's. I bought BricsCAD Classic, which is their low-end offering. The panic is over, and life without AutoCAD now seems very doable. There's a printer offset issue that I brought to the attention of BricsCAD customer support (they were able to replicate the problem and are working on a fix), but there's also a workaround for it. I had to tweak a few things, and am still tweaking things, but I was able to keep my work moving forward with surprisingly little disruption. So in a near-panic, I downloaded BricsCAD v15 and bought a license for it. And I had several time-sensitive jobs that I had to keep moving forward. (My workstation has hardware RAID support that I'd never made use of.) I used Clonezilla to turn my 1TB primary drive into a 2TB mirrored array, but in the process I managed to hose my AutoCAD license - I guess it was keyed to the original drive ID somehow.
BRICSCAD VS AUTOCAD PRICING SOFTWARE
Although I back up my data daily, both locally and in the cloud, the thought of dealing with a disk failure was pretty daunting - reinstalling and reconfiguring software is big time sink - to I decided to clone the drive and make the clone a RAID 1 array. Then a couple of weeks ago I realized that the primary hard disk in my workstation was nearly 3 years old.
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The BricsCAD demo expired before I gave it a fair test, though I did note that its AutoLISP implementation was much more robust than the CMS offering. I had good intentions of doing more research on alternatives, and even installed a demo of BricsCAD, but like a true addict I found the prospect of leaving the warm embrace of AutoCAD overwhelming. With lots of work to crank out, I soon went back to AutoCAD 2013. I rely heavily on custom AutoLISP routines, and the CMS implementation simply wasn't in the same ballpark as AutoCAD's. I bought CMS IntelliCAD v7.2 Pro, and tried hard to like it, but after a week or so of testing I found that its support for AutoLISP wasn't going to work for me. My years-long irritation at Autodesk's attitude toward its user base came to a boil in 2013 over a minor subscription price increase resulting from a missed renewal deadline, so began looking at IntelliCAD as an alternative. It's been almost 2 years since I vowed to leave the AutoCAD fold.