ESRI Import for Bricscad is a plug-in for Bricscad. This plug-in gives Bricscad the ability to import geometric data from ESRI files.
3DS Import for Bricscad reads points, polylines and polygons from ESRI shape files and creates corresponding points, polylines and polygons in the active Bricscad drawing. 
ESRI Import for Bricscad is very easy to use. Once installed, it must be loaded into the Bricscad environment. Follow the simple instructions in the ReadMe document which can be found in the installation folder. Once loaded it adds new commands to Bricscad's existing commands and a new submenu called "ESRIImport" to the Bricscad menu containing these newly added commands.