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Don’t Miss DraftSight VE, the DraftSight Virtual Event!
This October 25-27 DraftSight is hosting DraftSight VE, a free, must-attend event focused on 2D drafting, design, and collaboration. Register now to have a front row seat! The opening General Sessions for DraftSight VE will set the stage for three … Continued
DraftSight and the Curious Persistence of 2D CAD – Part 1
Drafting has been around for thousands of years. Almost anything built or manufactured up to the 20th century was designed and drawn by hand first. Throughout those many centuries, drafting tools (though evolving) remained pretty much the same. Things like … Continued
Landscape Architecture How-To: Helpful Tools to Know in DraftSight for Layout & Material Plans
It is critical for contractors to be able to look at Landscape Architect’s plans and know exactly how to build what has been drawn. Landscape Architects and Designers need to know all of the tools that are necessary to produce … Continued
Landscape Architecture How-To: Setting up Sheet Sets in DraftSight
When hundreds of drawings are created digitally for a project, it can get pretty messy at times. Using a sheet set to compile and organize drawings is a critical step in the design process. Sheet sets allow landscape architects to … Continued
Landscape Architecture How-To: Image Tracer for Landscape Architects/Designers
Wouldn’t it be nice to have your hand drawn sketches digitized in seconds? Think of all the time you would save! DraftSight’s Image Tracer tool allows landscape architects to attach jpgs or pdfs of sketches into the 2D work space … Continued
Follow the Leader in DraftSight
Today’s topic is all about Leaders. You’ll use them to draw leader lines that connect annotations to a drawing entity. Did you know that in DraftSight, you have three different ways to create them, with each type offering more drawing … Continued
Let DraftSight Help You Enforce Your CAD Standards
Consistency and standardization are an important aspect of drafting and design. Professional CAD departments employ standards to achieve this goal. DraftSight can help you verify and enforce your standards with its built-in Drawing Standards tool. The first thing you’ll need … Continued
The Advantages of DraftSight Enterprise Plus
We love all the positive feedback we get from our DraftSight customers. Mostly, that feedback takes the form of praising the tools that make their workflows more productive (such as PDF Import, Image Tracer, or Auto Dimension). Or maybe they’re … Continued
What are DraftSight Template Files?
We all want our projects to run like well-oiled machines. From a CAD management standpoint, you want your drafters and designers to always use the correct layers, styles, and various settings that you’ve defined to make your projects successful. You … Continued
Extend the Power of DraftSight with Customization – Part 3, VBA
Welcome to Part Three of our series on Customization in DraftSight. In Part One, we introduced you to Scripts as described in the popular webinar presented by Ramon Busboom and Vince Aman. In the second installment, we explored a few … Continued