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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BricsCAD

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ABricsCAD is a computer-aided design (CAD) toolkit, supporting 2D drawing, 3D modeling and visualizations, and is customizable as well as compatible with many 3rd party applications, developed by Belgian company Bricsys, a Hexagon company since late 2018.

    $314

    per year

    DraftSight

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADraftSight is a 2D and 3D CAD solution for architects, engineers and construction service providers, as well as professional CAD users, designers, educators and hobbyists. DraftSight lets users create, edit, view, and markup any kind of 2D and 3D DWG file with greater ease, speed, and efficiency. Its familiar user interface helps to facilitate a quick transition from other CAD applications. DraftSight Offerings: DraftSight Professional: the advanced 2D CAD drafting…

    $249

    per year

    Vention Manufacturing Automation Platform

    N/AN/AVention helps manufacturing companies automate their production floors. Vention’s online-first, manufacturing automation platform (MAP) enables its clients to design, automate, order, and deploy manufacturing equipment directly from their web browse.

    $3,500

    per month per machine

    Pricing
    BricsCADDraftSightVention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Editions & Modules
    BricsCAD Lite
    $590
    one-time fee
    BricsCAD Pro
    $1,265
    one-time fee
    BricsCAD Mechanical
    $1,780
    one-time fee
    BricsCAD BIM
    $1,890
    one-time fee
    BricsCAD Ultimate
    $2,100
    one-time fee
    DraftSight Professional
    $249
    per year
    DraftSight Premium (3D)
    $549
    per year
    DraftSight Enterprise
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    DraftSight Enterprise Plus
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    Pro
    $3500
    per month per machine
    Business
    $5000
    per month per machine
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BricsCADDraftSightVention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDraftSight Professional, and Premium are available to purchase online directly. DraftSight Enterprise and Enterprise Plus are available to purchase through local resellers.Contact vendor for pricing information.
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    BricsCADDraftSightVention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Considered Multiple Products
    Hexagon AB
    No answer on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    Chose DraftSight
    AutoCAD is the best 2D software but costs significantly more.
    Better than free 2D products.
    Good value for money compared to other paid products we have tried.
    Incentivized
    Chose DraftSight
    We use Draftsight because of it's lower cost and interoperability with other CAD systems. Prior to Draftsight we have used IntelliCAD variants, namely from Autodsys.
    Incentivized
    Chose DraftSight
    DraftSight is limited to important basics, but we were convinced by their better price-performance ratio.
    Incentivized
    Chose DraftSight
    DraftSight stands up against those apps since it’s a collaborative platform and their way of sending outstanding improvements in every single release, also reducing flaws and patching bugs. They're always put their competitors out of the fence with their support and …
    Incentivized
    Vention, Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    76 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    64 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    BricsCADDraftSightVention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Computer-Aided Design Software
    Comparison of Computer-Aided Design Software features of BricsCAD and DraftSight and Vention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Feature
    BricsCAD
    8.4
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    DraftSight
    6.8
    8 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Vention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    -
    Ratings
    3D Modeling9.01 Ratings7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    2D Drafting10.01 Ratings8.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rendering and Visualization8.01 Ratings5.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Parametric Design7.01 Ratings6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compatibility with other software and formats9.01 Ratings8.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Documentation and Annotation9.01 Ratings6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization and Extensions7.01 Ratings5.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration and Sharing00 Ratings7.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assembly Design00 Ratings7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Simulation and Analysis00 Ratings4.52 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BricsCADDraftSightVention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (417 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (24 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.8
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.4
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BricsCADDraftSightVention Manufacturing Automation Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Hexagon AB
    SMBs who do want to minimse their involvement with expensinve, inconvenient and bloated Autodesk products will find lots to love. The only hinderence is the market share of Autodesk means some 3rd party developers will not support it unfortunately, but it has it's own solutions to many things users of the AutoCAD ecosystem currenrtly rely on.
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    Dassault Systemes
    2D design work
    3D design work
    Large area (500m²+) analysis and assessment
    From product design, including production drawings to lay out of large (10m x 1m footprint) layouts DraftSight is a cost effective solution providing all appropriate interfaces for BIM.
    The level of detail during rendering (while it can be slow) is good for visualization and for use in installation and training materials
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    Hexagon AB
    • 3D Modeling
    • Machine learning / A.I.-assisted feature named PROPAGATE.
    Incentivized
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    Dassault Systemes
    • You can easily bring in a dwg format drawing into the programme and it will display the information just as well as AutoCAD.
    • The programme supports shortcut features or one-click buttons for the most commonly used operations.
    • Script files can be used which is a bonus.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Cons
    Hexagon AB
    • there is not full compatibility with dynamic blocks but it isn't so bad -we can create them in AutoCAD and use them to some extent anyway
    • it doesn't look as "sexy" and the interface looks kinda orimitive in some screens but the functionality is all there and the some
    • there is the hurdle of users thinking they are getting a lesser product so more marketing pozazz is needed to get the message over it is a very capable product
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    Dassault Systemes
    • The text search and replace is very crude and barely works. Needs a major revamping.
    • The layout tabs are very clunky and hard to use. Needs to be fixed.
    • DraftSight will fix a problem in one version, mess it up in another version, then fix it again later on. And so forth, and so forth, and so forth. Very poor software update control.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Likelihood to Renew
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    It has given us, a small startup, the ability to compete effectively with far larger competitors by evening the playing field at a low cost.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Hexagon AB
    it's exteremly useable. AutoCAD users will carry over many eisting skills and learn some new ones on the cross over. It's fast adn lightweight meaning ot can be run on just about any PC. The help and support are realy good and problems are usually responded to within a day by experts.
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    Dassault Systemes
    Easy if you know how to use CAD software. But is not very difficult to learn using DraftSight if this is your first CAD software. As soon as you get in to it the work flow will save you a lot of time and its simple interface is very nice.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    Other than a bug created by a VAR tech support that didn't get resolved until I installed the next version, DraftSight has worked fine.
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    In general it's very quick to load drawings...now it depends a lot on the file we're opening or working on.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
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    Support Rating
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    Technical support seems to be overseas with broken English and difficulty to read English. I asked for a trial license to try the fix but it was declined. Ask pratiksha.dahotre and gayatri.keskar for details. In summary, they released a broken version, I helped to fix by providing feedback and error logs. They claimed it is fixed but I can't test it.
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    Vention, Inc
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    In-Person Training
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    Based on some knowledge of AutoCad, using Draftsight took a short time before I felt comfortable using it.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
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    Implementation Rating
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    Take time to get used to where commands are and how the interface can be customized to suit your needs and work style. The keyboard commands are very helpful and can make work more efficient if time is taken to learn them.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    Hexagon AB
    Very cost-effective solution, it even supports pointclouds natively and is something we will investigate further as time goes on and may in fact utilise it to replace AutoCAD with 3rd party add-ins at some point in the future, and we hope it can further reduce costs in the long-run as it continues to develop and mature.
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    Dassault Systemes
    While SketchUp is free, DraftSights cost is minimal and its abilities are much greater. It is so much easier to layout and modifies a system design. Since DraftSight is compatible with all versions of CAD, it makes it easy to collaborate with customers on their specific system design. We spend less time and see greater sales on our projects.
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    Vention, Inc
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    It's a typical contract for cad software. It was inexpensive at the time I started. But now the more useful features are on the more premium (priced) version.
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    Vention, Inc
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    Scalability
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    As a startup, we really appreciate scalable software or tools, and because we use it for diverse types of projects, flexibility is key.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
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    Professional Services
    Hexagon AB
    No answers on this topic
    Dassault Systemes
    Quite responsive when I have an issue, and with little to no delay in responding. They are professional and know the software so have been able to solve all of the issues that I have had with both using the software and also with making revisions as required. Non-technical issues like invoices have also been resolved quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Hexagon AB
    • Evaluation and budget management
    • Better monitoring of projects
    • Respect of execution deadlines
    Incentivized
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    Dassault Systemes
    • Draftsight has been very cost effective, it was free a few years ago then £79 a year, which it still is if you have the standard version. Now the minium level is Profession edition at £159+ VAT per year. Which is still very good value for money, just more that what we currently pay with the standard licences we have.
    Incentivized
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    Vention, Inc
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