DraftSight 2019
It’s all about the workflow
DraftSight 2019 brings big changes to the product line. With more than 2 million active users, the value of DraftSight as a professional product is well established. Ten years ago when Dassault Systemès launched DraftSight, there was a lot of … Continued
Line and PolyLine are Non Coplanar Error
Over the last 10 blogs, we’ve covered a lot of the new features in DraftSight 2019. Today’s blog is a little different, it still applies to DraftSight, it just covers an issue I had in the last few days whilst … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – Click and Drag to Move
Click and Drag… It’s a feature that does exactly what it says! In previous versions of DraftSight, to move any entity, you had to do the following: Select the Move command. Select the Entity. Select the From Point. Select the … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New VP Freeze Command
Another of the many new features in DraftSight 2019 is the ‘New VP Freeze’ command. So, what exactly does it do? Well, this new feature allows a user to quickly create a new layer which inherits the properties of the … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – Trimming Hatches
We’ve all been there… We’ve completed the hatching on a drawing only to notice that there is a mistake and you’ve hatched an area that should not have been hatched. Now ordinarily, this is not a problem if you have … Continued
DraftSight coming soon to a cloud near you
Thanks to smartphones and tablets, we live in a era where data is created and consumed everywhere. Yet it seems the CAD industry, by and large, thinks all CAD work is done on desktops with full-featured CAD software. Some vendors … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – HomeByMe Integration
HomeByMe is an online 3D Home Planning service developed by 3DVIA, part of the Dassault Systèmes family. It’s not a fully featured CAD system, but it does allow the user to quickly and easily create rendered layouts in 3D. Once you’ve … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New Import Ribbon Tab
All versions of DraftSight 2019 now have a new Import Ribbon Tab which allows users to quickly attach and import supported file types in to DraftSight 2019. Using this new Ribbon Tab, users can attach Drawings (xrefs), Image Files, PDF Files … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New Features
DraftSight 2019 has just been released, so I thought I’d go through some of the new features in it. Image Tracer (DraftSight Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus only) Image Tracer allows you to import a Raster Image file into … Continued