![]() Some years I also produce What's New? BricsCAD that details the changes in the latest release. 350 pages and available since BricsCAD V9. It includes tutorials on how to use the 3D modeling tools that are unique to BricsCAD, such as BIM and sheet metal. ![]() It includes appendices that detail the differences in commands, system variables, keystroke shortcuts, and buttons. BricsCAD for AutoCAD ® Users details the similarities and differences between the two CAD programs, shows how well DWG is supported, and provides advice to design offices on how to run a dual-CAD environment. 600 pages and available since BricsCAD V4.ģ. Customizing BricsCAD is all about customizing the program through the Settings and Customize dialog boxes and other aspects of BricsCAD, along with an introduction to LISP and VBA programming. 400 pages and available since BricsCAD V8.Ģ. ![]() It takes them through the steps of creating and editing a 2D drawing, and then introduces them to 3D modeling. Inside BricsCAD (originally titled "Learn BricsCAD in a Day") is for new users learning CAD and BricsCAD for the first time. The three new guide books for BricsCAD V19 BricsCAD for AutoCAD ® users Inside BricsCAD Customizing BricsCADġ. You've written 3 guide books for BricsCAD V19, what are they and what are they about? I've updated it for nearly every release since then. Erik de Keyser in 2003 asked me to adapt it specifically to BricsCAD V4 (see figure), as Bricsys had no customizing reference. The ebooks about BricsCAD began as one aitbout customizing IntelliCAD, on which BricsCAD was first based. More recently, I began producing tutorial videos, and have nearly 200 of those. As print publications began in the early 2000s to be thwarted by the Internet, I launched my own line of ebooks, and now have over 100 of them. Over the next decades, I wrote and updated nearly 100 books about AutoCAD ®, Visio ®, and other technical topics. ![]() Sure, an HP ® laser printer was $2,500 but that was by then relatively affordable. I began at a fortunate time to be self-employed as a publisher, as the cost and availability of the equipment - reasonably-priced computer hardware with hi-res monitors, software for desktop publishing, and cheap global communications by fax and through CompuServe (a forbearer to the Internet) - were in place by 1991. I advised him to look for another career, and last I heard he is going in for accounting.) (As an aside, a teenage nephew of mine wanted to become a writer, so I asked him about the things he was writing. But being an editor at CADalyst gave me a high profile in the industry, and so I quickly landed numerous book and magazine contracts. Even then my father was shocked, because "you can't make a living at writing," which actually is mostly true. ![]() Being there taught me all aspects of running a publishing company - from subscriptions, to editorial and advertising, to typesetting and distribution.Īfter five years I left to launch my own endeavor. This proved to be a good move, as within five years of graduating from university I was technical editor at the then-brand-new CADalyst magazine, the first publication for AutoCAD ® users (1985). The cover of the first customization guidebook. So, due to my other keen interest in trains and model railroading, I instead went into engineering, getting my degree in civil engineering and specializing in transportation. My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to become a writer. I discovered my love of writing when I was a teenager. Who are you and why did you start writing the guide books? This week I sat down with Ralph to get to know the man behind the books. The offical V19 guide books are now available, BricsCAD for AutoCAD ® Users, Inside BricsCAD, and Customizing BricsCAD, all written by Ralph Grabowski. Who is Ralph Grabowski? Well the guy that created the guidebooks for BricsCAD. ![]()
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