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DraftSight 2018 for $99.00

By MJ Smyth December 20, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 for $99.00

It’s coming to the end of the year and that means the “DraftSight Professional 2018 for $99.00” is also coming to an end. To be more precise, it finishes on December 31st 2017 so time is running out to avail … Continued

Creating a Snowflake in DraftSight

By MJ Smyth December 15, 2017
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Creating a Snowflake in DraftSight

Considering the time of year it is, I thought we should have a seasonal blog.  Today we’re going to draw a snowflake in DraftSight. To the experienced CAD user, this will seem a very simple affair, but for users with less … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features 5

By MJ Smyth December 11, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features 5

Today’s blog deals with new functionality within the G Code feature in DraftSight Professional 2018. Not all DraftSight users will be aware of what G-Code is. Basically, the DraftSight G-Code Generator lets you convert drawing data to G-code so that … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features 4

By MJ Smyth November 29, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features 4

This weeks blog is going to deal with two new Block features.  They are Removing Attributes from a Block and Redefining the Base Point of a Block.  Both features are new to DraftSight Professional 2018 and are easy to use. In … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features 3

By MJ Smyth November 14, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features 3

For the next few weeks in this blog, we’re going to carry on with introducing the new features in DraftSight Professional 2018. This week, we will talk about the new Quick Input Methods and Curved Text functionality. In previous releases … Continued

DraftSight Professional 2018 and PDF Import

By MJ Smyth November 8, 2017
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DraftSight Professional 2018 and PDF Import

In a previous blog, I wrote about DraftSight and the PDF Underlay function, what it was and how to use it. This blog continues on from there and talks about the PDF Import Plugin for DraftSight Professional 2018. The PDF Import … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features 2

By MJ Smyth November 7, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features 2

In this weeks blog, we’re going to continue on explaining some of the new features in DraftSight Professional 2018. As we all know, in previous versions of DraftSight, if you used the Copy and Paste commands, your entities were pasted … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features

By MJ Smyth October 31, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features

I mentioned a range of new features in DraftSight 2018 in last weeks blog.  This week, and for the coming weeks, I’m going to go into a bit of detail on these features and explain how they work. First up … Continued

Pumpkin Project

By MJ Smyth October 27, 2017
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Pumpkin Project

You might not be aware of it, but Halloween as we know it, started life a long time ago as the old Irish festival of Samhain. So, given the fact that I’m Irish, I thought I’d create a stencil for a … Continued

DraftSight 2018 Launches

By MJ Smyth October 25, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 Launches

DraftSight 2018 was released this week and is now available for download from DraftSight.com  We’re very excited by the new features in this latest release of DraftSight and we think you will be too! So, just what are these new … Continued

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