Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword – it’s built right into today’s CAD tools to make your life easier. BricsCAD® now offers AI-driven features that tackle tedious tasks and boost accuracy, so you can focus on design instead of drudgery. These intelligent tools learn from the way you work, speeding up routine edits and cleanup. The result? Faster drawings and fewer errors, all with a light touch of automation that feels like having a helpful assistant in the background.
Smarter Command Suggestions (AI Predict)
BricsCAD’s® AI Predict feature is like auto-complete for your CAD commands. As you draft or modify geometry, it learns which commands you reach for and then suggests the next ones on the fly. For example, if you often follow a Line command with a Trim, AI Predict will offer those to you immediately. These suggestions appear both on the ribbon and in the command line (where you’ll see the top three likely commands instead of the usual alphabetical list). The result is less clicking through menus and more time drawing – imagine a predictive text for CAD, giving you exactly what you need the moment you need it.
Tiny inaccuracies in your drawings can cause big headaches later on. BricsCAD’s® Optimise command uses AI to spot and fix those micro-errors automatically. It works in both 2D and 3D: in a 2D plan, it might close tiny gaps between lines, snap nearly-collinear vertices into line, or merge overlapping segments. In 3D models, it can make almost-coplanar faces perfectly coplanar and align stray vertices. These fixes happen with one click or command, so your model stays clean and precise without manual fiddling. Keeping geometry exact not only improves accuracy, it also speeds up rendering and downstream workflows.
Creating CAD blocks is great for consistency and speed, but doing it manually can be a chore – until you meet Blockify. This clever tool scans your entire drawing to find repeated sets of geometry (2D shapes or 3D solids). Whenever it spots identical or very similar items (like multiple copies of a window, a chair, or a machine part), Blockify replaces them with a single block definition and inserts multiple block references. That means one central definition controls all the repeats. The benefits are clear: your file size drops and performance jumps, and any change to the block updates every instance automatically. Whether you have dozens of identical bolts or recurring design motifs, Blockify does the heavy lifting of grouping them into blocks for you.
Keeping a drawing healthy is easier with BricsCAD’s® suite of maintenance tools. A flagship feature is DWGHEALTH, which bundles many cleanup commands into one workflow. For example, you can run DWGHEALTH in express mode to audit the file for errors, purge unused layers and blocks, and optimise geometry in one pass. Other smart tools include OVERKILL, which merges duplicate lines and objects, and FINDOUTLIERS, which detects stray entities lying far from the main model. There’s even SIMPLIFY for trimming down overly dense polylines or splines. Together, these AI-assisted tools mean you can tidy up imported or messy drawings with a few clicks. The payoff is huge: lean, fast drawings that are easier to open, edit and share, with all the hidden glitches dealt with automatically.
BricsCAD’s® AI-powered features don’t replace the designer – they enhance your work. By handling repetitive chores and error-prone fix-ups, these tools give you back hours in your day. We’ve seen CAD users who, once they start using AI Predict, Optimise, Blockify and the Drawing Health suite, meet project deadlines much faster and with fewer headaches. In the end, it’s simple: intelligent automation in BricsCAD® helps you concentrate on creativity, knowing the software has your back.
