DraftSight 2019 – Drawing Frame and Title Block Library
With DraftSight 2019 Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, users have access to to a large library of pre-made Frames and Title Blocks in ANSI, BSI, DIN, ISO and JIS standards. How do you access these? It’s quite simple actually, … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New VP Freeze Command
Another of the many new features in DraftSight 2019 is the ‘New VP Freeze’ command. So, what exactly does it do? Well, this new feature allows a user to quickly create a new layer which inherits the properties of the … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – Trimming Hatches
We’ve all been there… We’ve completed the hatching on a drawing only to notice that there is a mistake and you’ve hatched an area that should not have been hatched. Now ordinarily, this is not a problem if you have … Continued
DraftSight coming soon to a cloud near you
Thanks to smartphones and tablets, we live in a era where data is created and consumed everywhere. Yet it seems the CAD industry, by and large, thinks all CAD work is done on desktops with full-featured CAD software. Some vendors … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – Using Formulas in Table Cells
In previous versions of DraftSight, users could create tables within their drawings, but they were very simple tables. In DraftSight 2019 Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, users now have the ability to add formulas to their tables, just like you can in your favourite spreadsheet program. … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – HomeByMe Integration
HomeByMe is an online 3D Home Planning service developed by 3DVIA, part of the Dassault Systèmes family. It’s not a fully featured CAD system, but it does allow the user to quickly and easily create rendered layouts in 3D. Once you’ve … Continued
How much compatibility do you need?
Consider the lowly rectangle. You first met formally in elementary school. If you were paying attention you learned a rectangle is not always a square but a square is always a rectangle. And then you flicked a spitwad at the … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New Import Ribbon Tab
All versions of DraftSight 2019 now have a new Import Ribbon Tab which allows users to quickly attach and import supported file types in to DraftSight 2019. Using this new Ribbon Tab, users can attach Drawings (xrefs), Image Files, PDF Files … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – Block Attribute Manager
Many of the new, great features in DraftSight 2019 are only available in the Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus versions of the software. The Block Attribute Manager is one of those great new features only to be found in DraftSight 2019 Professional and above, and, … Continued
