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DraftSight is now fully available for Mac OS!

By MJ Smyth September 25, 2020
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DraftSight is now fully available for Mac OS!

After a rather long Beta period, DraftSight for Mac OS is finally available.   So, what features can you expect to find in DraftSight for macOS? With the exception of Drawing Compare, Image Tracer, 3D ContentCentral® integration, and HomeByMe integration … Continued

Customer Stories – California Wire Products Corporation

By MJ Smyth September 2, 2020
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Customer Stories – California Wire Products Corporation

California Wire Products Corporation (Cal-Wire) is the leading manufacturer of woven wire products on the West Coast of the USA. Established in 1948, Cal-Wire specialises in engineered-to-order wire and welded-mesh products that are custom-designed to meet specific customer needs.  You … Continued

Building Applications for DraftSight

By MJ Smyth August 31, 2020
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Building Applications for DraftSight

We’re going to step away from the Customer Stories just for the moment and get tech heavy.  Today’s blog, as you can guess from the title, deals with building applications for DraftSight.  So, why exactly might you want to build … Continued

Customer Stories – Superheat

By MJ Smyth August 15, 2020
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Customer Stories – Superheat

Superheat were founded on the principle that cutting-edge technology can offer a better way to provide on-site heat treatment solutions and are now a leading innovative heat-treatment provider.  You might be wondering what a heat-treatment provider is, well, simply put, … Continued

Customer Stories – Haenen Design Studios

By MJ Smyth August 8, 2020
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Customer Stories – Haenen Design Studios

Based in Culver City, California, Haenen Design Studios is a brand identity and interior design consultancy.  Founded in 2014 by Principal Designer, Christine Haenen, they create timeless elegance and interior spaces that clients love by pairing sophisticated colour and furniture … Continued

Using DraftSight to Create a COVID Safe Floorplan

By MJ Smyth July 31, 2020
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Using DraftSight to Create a COVID Safe Floorplan

Month six of this strange new Covid-19 world and some of us are back in our offices and sitting at our desks.  Mind you, it’s not like it was before, every room in the building is now in permanent use … Continued

Electrical Drafting in DraftSight

By MJ Smyth July 22, 2020
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Electrical Drafting in DraftSight

Well over 50 percent of the CAD work I do in DraftSight is electrical related. That’s everything from Lighting, Data and Power Layouts to Board Schematics.  Over the years, I’ve created and downloaded many blocks for my Electrical Library.  Some … Continued

Lynn Allen Talks DraftSight

By MJ Smyth July 15, 2020
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Lynn Allen Talks DraftSight

Change, in the CAD world, is slow.  Users like their particular choice of CAD software and are very hesitant to move to something else.  Users have concerns over file compatibility, if they will need retraining, if the software is reliable, … Continued

Converting a Drawing from Inches to Millimeters

By MJ Smyth July 1, 2020
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Converting a Drawing from Inches to Millimeters

A mistake I often see from new CAD Users is that they are drawing using the wrong units.  I live in Europe, so the standard unit of measurement over here is Decimal, that means Metres, Centimetres, Millimetres and so on. … Continued

CAD Standards – ByLayer for Blocks

By MJ Smyth June 25, 2020
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CAD Standards – ByLayer for Blocks

When creating any entity in DraftSight, you have the option, in its properties, to give it a colour. I always select ByLayer.  Why?  Well it’s simple, it just means that if I put that block into a drawing, I know … Continued

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