BricsCAD vs. Studio 5000

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BricsCAD
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
BricsCAD 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
Studio 5000
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Rockwell Automation offers the Studio 5000 suite of design and engineering applications, including Studio 5000 Architect engineering environment, Studio 5000 Logix Designer for management of Allen-Bradley Logix controllers, Studio 500 View Designer for graphic terminals and alarms, the Studio 5000 Application Code Manager libraries of re-usable code, and Studio 5000 Logix Emulate experiment and debugging environment.N/A
Pricing
BricsCADStudio 5000
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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BricsCADStudio 5000
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
BricsCADStudio 5000
Computer-Aided Design Software
Comparison of Computer-Aided Design Software features of Product A and Product B
BricsCAD
8.4
1 Ratings
13% above category average
Studio 5000
-
Ratings
3D Modeling9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
2D Drafting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Rendering and Visualization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Parametric Design7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Compatibility with other software and formats9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Documentation and Annotation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization and Extensions7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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BricsCADStudio 5000
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User Ratings
BricsCADStudio 5000
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BricsCADStudio 5000
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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Rockwell Automation
As I said before, it's the only tool known to man capable of programming Rockwell PLC's, so if any colleague needed to program one I 100% would recommend it. So, this software is appropiate only when using Rockwell PLC's. As far as I know it would program any other brand.
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Pros
Hexagon AB
  • 3D Modeling
  • Machine learning / A.I.-assisted feature named PROPAGATE.
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Rockwell Automation
  • The tag system it uses for programming makes it easier than other softwares
  • Programming Rockwell PLC's
  • The management of the ladder code is easier
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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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Rockwell Automation
  • Price, it's realy expensive
  • Sometimes configuring communication with other devices can be hard
  • I'd like the ability to programm with languages such as C or Python
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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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Rockwell Automation
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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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Rockwell Automation
Studio 5000 is a good product. Compared to Omrom's CX-Programmer feels more advanced and with more functions, altough that depends on the PLC being programmed. I choose Studio 5000 because there are no other options when programming Rockwell PLC's
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Return on Investment
Hexagon AB
  • Evaluation and budget management
  • Better monitoring of projects
  • Respect of execution deadlines
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Rockwell Automation
  • Well, there is one customer that only uses Rockwells PLC's, so I could say that Studio 5000 is a must have and a good percent of the bussiness depends on it.
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