Joining the Outlaws

zoomer

Graphics Engine in both MS & PS, shaded viewport a bit of tansparency a few lines with a 0.5-1.0mm line weight, bogs down rapidly. Octave should look at aqcuiring the RedWAY3D SDK and graphics engine off Tech Soft 3D. Those guys are seriously dragging the chain and are in denial. I showed them their demo engine running at 1 FPS and they responded as if that’s expected and that with their help they can improve it and showed me one of theirs doing 10 FPS, like I expect 100+ FPS with the model they demoed. Essentially, eshitification, showcasing a product with horrific performance and attempting to sell it as a diamond, customers are just going to laugh at them.

Not sure how this could help.
If a company relies on a 3rd party 3D Engine, I would not expect much Graphics expertise in-house that could make much use or further developing of that SDK.

I also experience sub par Viewport experience in Bricscad on Mac than with other 3D/CAD/BIM Apps - unfortunately same on Windows.

It was said that RedSDK's Metal was too slow and not usable. And I think Metal support is mandatory for a final future Apple ARM support. Otherwise Bricscad will no more run on new Apple Hardware beginning September 2027.

What about that alternative (?)
https://www.khronos.org/anari/

Just_Me

I ended our maintenance for BricsCAD late last year when I "tried" to update to V26 having been unhappy with the performance of V25, only to find my maintenance had expired. I was surprised because only a few months earlier I had upgraded from Pro to BIM, and thought that meant I had 12 months before it needed renewing.

I contacted support and offered to pay the maintenance, but they flat out refused despite the honest mistake, and insisted on the hefty upgrade payment too.

That was it for me and we're done with BricsCAD upgrades. What's more, this hurts the parent company Hexagon twice, because I also cancelled our Cloudworx maintenance as we don't need that now to maintain functionality with future versions of BricsCAD.

We are very happy on the final version of V24 which works great, and wasn't filled with AI slop.

For reference, our V25 issues were big performance hits from the AI trying to guess what we wanted to do next. Disabling that returned performance to normal. But also we had a load of issues with the Paper space tabs not displaying properly which was really annoying.

If you're reading this BricsCAD, well done to your support team, they cost yourselves and Leica some easy money.