Monthly Archives: June 2017
DraftSight and eDrawings
Did you know that your DraftSight drawings can be exported to the SOLIDWORKS eDrawings file format? No? Well they can! If you didn’t know that, you are probably wondering just what the eDrawing format is. Let me explain. eDrawing is … Continued
DraftSight Filters
The SelectionFilter command in DraftSight allows you to create selection sets to filter entities within DraftSight. Simply put, it allows you to filter entities by various different criteria. You could, for example, create a filter to find all objects with … Continued
3D ContentCentral
Have you heard of 3D ContentCentral? It’s an online repository of 3D and 2D CAD Models of User-Contributed and Supplier-Certified Parts, Assemblies and more. Best of all, it is free. Yes, you read that right, access to this huge library of … Continued
DraftSight, Xrefs and Emails
When I started as a draftsman many years ago, email was something we had heard about, but never seen. If you wanted to share drawings, you put them on a 5 /14″ or 3.5″ floppy drive, and popped it in … Continued