The Smarter Way to Design - The Design Manager's Perspective - DraftSight Blog

As a design and engineering manager, it’s important to equip your design team with the right tools to keep them as productive as possible while also keeping in mind operational costs and preparing for the future. With an abundance of solutions on the market, it’s not always easy to choose. The right CAD solution can make all the difference in reducing repetitive work, saving time and allowing your team to focus on high-value activities – and doing what they love – designing.

DraftSight supports operational efficiency with capabilities comparable to, or even greater than, those of other 2D CAD products. DraftSight provides tools so users can easily create, edit, view and share 2D and 3D DWG files.

DraftSight has multiple productivity tools that can save your team hours and even days, including the enhanced Sheet Set Manager, Configurable Blocks, PDF Import and many more. DraftSight helps automate simple processes, letting the software do the work.

Does your organization have the right tools?

Giving your team the best tools to meet their design needs is just part of the puzzle. Everyone needs to be able to collaborate and share data smoothly, internally and externally. DraftSight’s compatibility with industry-standard formats ensures that your drawings can be easily shared with clients, facility managers or other stakeholders, even if they use different CAD formats. Users can export them in the format that best suits their needs—whether DWG, DXF or PDF.

Want to boost collaboration and efficiency even more? DraftSight has flexible licensing, including network licenses and options enabling users to connect their data to the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform giving users access to real-time collaboration and data management.

SOLIDWORKS CEO Manish Kumar believes the best design approach involves platform collaboration so they can get the most value out of their data.

“I see the 3DEXPERIENCE platform as a powerful engine driving innovation and growth for our customers. Once they are on the platform, they can leverage the 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s data management and collaboration capabilities and tap into other solutions in the 3DEXPERIENCE Works portfolio, such as simulation, manufacturing and lifecycle solutions.”

He said it’s vital that customers have unified access to data, and SOLIDWORKS is on a mission to enable that.

With 3DEXPERIENCE Works solutions, such as the cloud-connected 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight, you can easily connect your data to the platform and have access to all the latest enhancements. You no longer have to wait for an annual release as enhancements become available throughout the year in functional deliveries.

DraftSight is also scalable so you can be ready for the future. 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight brings all your key stakeholders together on a single collaborative platform. Once you connect to the platform, you are connected to multiple purpose-built solutions. 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight enables designers to deliver high-quality designs faster, leveraging real-time design data throughout the enterprise, allowing key stakeholders to give feedback throughout the product development phase with all the design data stored securely in the cloud.

Maximize Your Investment

Take the time to really map out your CAD requirements, licensing preferences and current costs so you can make a line-by-line comparison to determine if DraftSight is a better investment for your business.

Things to consider when investing in technology:

Do we have the proper process? What processes are monopolizing valuable time?
What are the challenges with our current CAD software and design tools?
Do we have the right resources, and do they have access to the necessary tools?
How can we collaborate more efficiently with partners?
Are we being as innovative as we can be?
How will our needs evolve in the future?

Understanding your current gaps and projected future CAD and technology needs prepares you to evaluate the necessary changes to support continued improvement and growth. DraftSight supports operational efficiency with comparable, if not greater, capabilities than alternative 2D CAD products, flexible licensing and cloud connectivity with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

The best advice. Invest in your team. Investing in your team means investing in innovation and the future progression of your organization so you can continue to innovate and stay competitive. This means supporting your team with productivity tools and automations, getting more out of your IT budget and leveraging new organizational capabilities in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to improve collaboration, accelerate decision-making and reduce critical errors. Improvements that free up time, or cost savings, can be redirected toward activities to support innovation and future growth.

You can read this eBook (requires email) to learn more about how to:

Drive Continuous Improvement
Streamline Processes
Empower Your Design Team
Maximize Your Investment
Invest in Innovation
Prepare for Growth

If you’re ready to enable your team to design smarter now, download DraftSight’s Free-30-day trial. With DraftSight’s familiar user interface and common commands, your team will be up to speed in hours, not days.

Also, DraftSight 2025 is coming soon! Stay tuned to see what’s new.

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