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After he resigned from Bricsnet in 2002, De Keyser established Bricsys to develop CAD software (competing directly with AutodeskвЂ™s AutoCAD product, but much more keenly priced and more open вЂ“ Bricsys is proud of its international membership of BuildingSMART and is developing IFC export and import tools) the DWG-based BricsCAD application has over 250,000 users worldwide, and has won converts disgruntled by AutodeskвЂ™s software licensing approach (read some of the comments on this Blog Nauseum post by Steve Johnson).Д«ricsys also launched a cloud-based document management platform (which employs the same SQLite architecture as BricsCAD).В Since the early 2000s, this has had at least three different brands: Vista (c. In his pre-Bricsys days, De Keyser led the the expansion of the somewhat over-hyped Bricsnet business around the turn of the century (I have written about BricsnetвЂ™s early daysВ and more recently covered its rebranding as ProjectCenter and the 2016 establishment of its joint venture with GermanyвЂ™s think project!). In the opening session, Bricsys CEO (architect turned software developer) Erik De Keyser gave a very brief history of Chapoo. Both Chapoo and Bricsys are privately held, so I couldnвЂ™t glean revenue figures but was assured that Chapoo is profitable. While it is a separate company, it is co-located with and shares many of the same developers involved with BricsysвЂ™s core products, and it uses the same internally developed (and impressive!) customer relationship management system, BOA, deployed to support BricsCAD.

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MuchВ of the event focused on the companyвЂ™s BricsCADВ and BricsCAD BIM applications, plus a sheet metal modelling application, but the business also has a sister company, Chapoo, spun off as a separate businessВ in 2012, that offers cloud-based collaboration.

This week, I attended a Bricsys Insights event held at the headquarters of the Ghent, Belgium-based engineering software developer. This weekвЂ™s Bricsys Insights press event showed off some of the capabilities of the Chapoo AEC collaboration platform and underlined the growing importance of BIM.