DraftSight Tips and Tricks
Get Ready for DraftSight Live 2023 – Register Now and Save Your Seat!
Hey there, fellow architects, engineers, and design enthusiasts! We’ve got some exciting news: DraftSight Live is back, and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever! What’s DraftSight Live 2023, you ask? Well, it’s the ultimate virtual event during … Continued
The State of Your Layers in DraftSight: Addressed
Using layers to organize your drawings is a foundational bedrock of CAD work. The ability to group similar entities and control their appearance and visibility was one of the springboards that supplanted CAD drafting in favor of traditional board drafting. … Continued
The Power of Customization with DraftSight
Are you looking for ways to make your DraftSight workflows faster and more efficient? Customizations can help you automate your work tasks. DraftSight offers several easy customizations to make it faster to access the tools you use most. Watch Make … Continued
Optimize Projects: DraftSight Premium’s Sheet Set Manager
Recently, we talked to one of our customers, Josh, who’s also a long-time CAD Manager. “There’s no one-size-fits-all for what a CAD Manager does,” says Josh. “Every job is different, but there are some commonalities for all of us.” According … Continued
Find and Download the Best DXF Viewer
Need to open and view a DXF file? Learn about your options for DXF viewers and how to find the one that’s best for you.
Efficiently Organize Your Designs with DraftSight’s Powerful Layers Manager
Organizing your drawing files by Layer is one of the core tasks for most drafters. The Layers Manager provides easy access to all the functions you’ll need to create and manage your layers, along with their visibility, properties, and behavior. … Continued
Organizing Dimensions with DraftSight’s Auto-Arrange Functionality
Dimensions are a crucial part of any drawing as they indicate the size of the shape to the manufacturer and inspector. However, as the dimensions within a drawing increase, it becomes a time-consuming task to arrange them in a way … Continued
Convert Inches to Millimeters in DraftSight – Part 2
In part one of our series, we showed you how easy it can be to get your drawing units set up to draft in Metric units, specifically in millimeters. Once it’s set correctly in your templates, you should have a … Continued
Convert Inches to Millimeters in DraftSight – Part 1
When considering the differences between using Imperial or Metric units in DraftSight, it’s important to know that there are two scenarios to consider. In this first of a two-part series, we’ll focus on making sure you’re set up correctly to … Continued
Top FAQs Answered in DraftSight Webinars: Your Ultimate Guide
Those of us here at DraftSight love doing webinars and other live events. It allows us to show off what we think is the best choice for your 2D CAD platform, and we also get to interact with our users … Continued