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2D Design with DraftSight: Customer Story with Sealed Air’s Brandon Foster
We recently talked to Brandon Foster, the CAD Administrator at Sealed Air Corporation. Sealed Air specializes in industrial packaging materials, equipment, and services. Brandon has nearly 20 years of experience using SOLIDWORKS, but he and his team also rely on … Continued
DraftSight Offers a Solution to CAD Users Impacted by Changes
Trapped in a Rigid CAD Licensing Model? 2023 is off to a rocky start for some CAD users, as one of the larger software providers continues to make changes to its licensing model. In January, the provider removed a 5 … Continued
How Placetailor is Creating Net-Zero Carbon Housing with 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight
Placetailor is a Boston-based development, design, and construction cooperative dedicated to delivering carbon neutral housing. Carbon neutral housing has a net-zero carbon footprint. This can be achieved by reducing the energy consumption of the building through energy efficiency measures, and then … Continued
Our Most Popular DraftSight Blogs in 2022
If 2022 taught us one thing, it’s that organizing for the future starts now. Our clients are embracing new methods for innovating and operating in order to stay competitive and relevant. For DraftSight, 2022 has been a year of exciting … Continued
HeatTek Inc. – Supporting Growth with SOLIDWORKS and DraftSight
In today’s world of 3D parts and assemblies, SOLIDWORKS® 3D design software helps customers quickly respond to customer demands and shorter delivery lead times by increasing efficiency and throughput for 3D needs, such as large-assembly design. But 2D drawings are … Continued
Increase Your Productivity with DraftSight’s Quick Modify Command
With DraftSight, all the tools you need are right at your fingertips to speed your productivity from the first day. Many of the most common entity modification tools can be found within the first icon in the Modify panel of … Continued
Take Control of your Geometry in DraftSight with Associative Patterns
DraftSight’s Patterns command has a powerful tool to help you control your repeatable geometry. When you use the Associative property in your patterns, the patterns are grouped into an easily editable unified object instead of creating individual entities. The Pattern … Continued
DraftSight 2023 New Features: Page Layout Manager
The DraftSight 2023 release includes one of our users’ most requested features. The new Page Layout Manager will save you time setting up your print or plot settings. Instead of creating and managing an external print configuration file, you can … Continued
DraftSight 2023’s Enhanced Features: HomeByMe Integration
Some things are just better together – which is why we think you’ll really enjoy the enhanced HomeByMe integration offered in DraftSight 2023. HomeByMe is an online 3D space planning service developed by Dassault Systèmes. Both easy-to-use and intuitive, … Continued
DraftSight 2023 New Features: Data Extraction Wizard
DraftSight 2023 lets you dig deep into your drawing files to gather critical information, and we made it as easy as stepping through a Wizard to find and use that valuable data. The new EXTRACTDATA command can be found in … Continued