BricsCAD BIM Academy

Introduction

BricsCAD BIM Academy is series tutorials to teach you how to use BricsCAD BIM from the beginning.

1 – Introduction, Interface, Viewing and Navigation

  • 01:30 BricsCAD User Interface
  • 08:10 Settings
  • 12:00 Viewing: pan, zoom hide, isolate…
  • 18:38 BIM sections
  • 21:10 View styles
  • 22:10 The Quad
  • 23:10 Selection modes.

2 – Basic Modeling

  • 00:30 Xrefs
  • 02:00 Import Geometry
  • 03:40 Selection Modes
  • 05:50 Modeling methods
  • 08:40 The Manipulator
  • 10:00 Grids
  • 13:00 Shell
  • 14:00 BIMSplit
  • 17:00 Cleaning up the model
  • 21:10 L-Connect
  • 22:20 BIMCopy
  • 23:55 Connect with Nearest
  • 27:00 QuickDraw
  • 31:10 BIMStairTool
  • 35:15 Convert a 2D layout into a 3D model.

3 – Components

  • 00:30 The Components Panel
  • 02:25 Insert Components into a Drawing
  • 04:40 Duplicate Components
  • 06:50 Insert Local Components
  • 07:55 Editing Component Properties
  • 11:10 BIM Flip
  • 12:20 Custom Components
  • 24:20 Create Windows from Polylines

4 – Adding BIM Data

  • 00:35 Structure Browser
  • 01:45 Adding BIM data
  • 02:15 Automatically add BIM data
  • 04:15 Spacial Locations
  • 05:00 Compositions
  • 08:35 Parametric Components
  • 09:15 Use AI to add BIM data automatically
  • 12:25 Editing composition junctions
  • 13:45 Use AI to replicated detailing automatically
  • 16:14 Properties

5 – Basic Drawing Documentation

  • 02:45 Add BIM sections
  • 03:47 Update an Xref
  • 04:10 The Project Browser
  • 06:10 Sheet Sets
  • 07:10 Sections
  • 14:33 Edit Generated Drawings
  • 24:50 Elevation Hatches
  • 27:55 The schedule

6 – IFC and BCF

  • 00:50 Import Revit® files
  • 03:12 Import IFC files
  • 04:15 Export to IFC
  • 04:50 The BCF panel

7 – Increasing Level of Detail

  • 02:00 The details panel
  • 04:15 Add compositions to a drawing
  • 06:50 Create detail
  • 09:50 Save a detail for reuse
  • 12:25 Parametrize a detail
  • 15:30 Automatically add repeated detail to a model

8 – Structural Modeling

  • 0:01:33 Grids
  • 0:07:30 Creating a column
  • 0:11:40 Automatically duplicate across a grid
  • 0:14:55 Create a truss
  • 0:32:12 Adding Sidebars
  • 0:37:45 Cleaning up the details
  • 0:45:50 Create a detail
  • 0:50:19 Create a block with BIM data
  • 0:52:10 Save a detail as a component
  • 1:00:40 Convert a block to a library detail
  • 1:03:10 Add diagonal braces
  • 1:06:05 Add columns to the front

9 – 3D Constraints and Parametrics

  • 01:18 Adding constraints
  • 10:00 Add Parameters
  • 18:28 Design tables
  • 24:03 Automatically add constraints and parametrics
  • 25:20 Edit Parameters

10 – Advanced Drawing Documentation

  • 04:20 Understanding the layers
  • 15:55 BRX Layers (symbolic representations)
  • 20:55 Hatch Patterns
  • 23:59 Customizing BIM tags
  • 23:43 Adding Dimensions
  • 33:15 Inserting Title Blocks
  • 35:10 Inserting Sheet List Tables
  • 36:10 Adding View labels and Callout Blocks
  • 37:38 Creating Interior Elevation
  • 39:37 Creating Schedules
  • 44:00 Creating a Data Extraction to Excel
  • 46:56 Creating Sheet Set Templates

11 – Point Clouds

  • 01:17 Import a point cloud
  • 03:40 Changing point cloud point size
  • 04:15 Changing the point cloud resolution
  • 07:30 Clipping the display
  • 10:45 Measuring distance
  • 11:20 Modeling from a point cloud
  • 14:30 Example model from point cloud


12 – Full Enscape Workflow

  • 01:17 Import a point cloud
  • 03:40 Changing point cloud point size
  • 04:15 Changing the point cloud resolution
  • 07:30 Clipping the display
  • 10:45 Measuring distance
  • 11:20 Modeling from a point cloud
  • 14:30 Example model from point cloud

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