Bricsys (Bricscad) Drops IntelliCAD
I’m sure lots of GIS folks tuned out of the IntelliCAD story some years ago, but the alternative CAD platform, IntelliCAD is still out there, under the auspices of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC). Many third party developers developed on IntelliCAD to step aside from or add another platform, to their AutoCAD-based implementation. (There’s a decent history of ITC on its wikipedia page.) Carlson and Microsurvey are two companies from the survey space that build on IntelliCAD of which of which you may have heard.
Bricsys was one of the first into the IntelliCAD pool, one of the first members of the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium.
Based on a press release today, Bricsys, which develops Bricscad, an end-user and developer platform, have split with the ITC (though the company is still listed as a member on the website when I looked.) The new version of the software Version 10, is built on all Bricsys technology using the Open Design Alliance libraries (as best I understand). One of the key differentiators of moving to the ODA libraries over the ITC platform? The Bricsys software can be cross platform; Bricscad for Mac and Linux are expected later this year.
Bricsys is said to serve geospatial in the release, and lists nine third party apps (built on Bricscad) for geo.
ESRI and Bentley are members of ODA and use those same libraries.
