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Spell Checking in DraftSight 2020

By MJ Smyth April 15, 2020
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Spell Checking in DraftSight 2020

It’s been a crazy time recently, which is why my last four blogs have been about how you can use DraftSight® at home to continue your business and support the people working on the front line in these tough circumstances. … Continued

Working From Home – A Few Tips

By MJ Smyth March 25, 2020
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Working From Home – A Few Tips

If you are one of the people who will be working from home for the next few weeks, I’ve got some tips to make your DraftSight life a little easier. The first tip is to Export Your Profile from your … Continued

Dynamic Blocks in DraftSight 2020 Beta

By MJ Smyth March 6, 2020
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Dynamic Blocks in DraftSight 2020 Beta

DraftSight 2020 Beta now supports imported Dynamic Blocks to represent movable segments in a block.  That’s a fantastic new feature, but some users might be wondering just what are dynamic blocks.  Let me try to explain. Simply put, a Dynamic … Continued

Auto Dimension in DraftSight 2020 Beta

By MJ Smyth February 26, 2020
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Auto Dimension in DraftSight 2020 Beta

I’ll be honest here, one of my least favourite things to do on a drawing is adding in dimensions.  It’s time consuming and, lets face it, a tad boring!  If you’ve downloaded the DraftSight 2020 Beta, you might have noticed … Continued

Scripts in DraftSight

By MJ Smyth November 19, 2019
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Scripts in DraftSight

Scripts can be used to automate certain tasks within DraftSight.  It today’s blog, I’ll show you an example of a simple script that creates Layers and assigns Colours to those layers.  So, what do you need to get started? Well … Continued

Creating a Custom Toolbar in DraftSight

By MJ Smyth November 12, 2019
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Creating a Custom Toolbar in DraftSight

In our last blog, I talked about customising DraftSight using Alias commands.  Today I’m going to talk about customising the Draftsight interface by creating a Custom Toolbar.  Why might you do this?  Well, you can create a Toolbar with all … Continued

Customising Commands in DraftSight

By MJ Smyth November 5, 2019
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Customising Commands in DraftSight

I’ve said it before in these blogs, I’m old school when it comes to entering commands in DraftSight.  I use the keyboard for practically everything and I’ve customized DraftSight with, what I call, 2 finger commands.  Why?  Well, they’re generally, … Continued

Creating a LineStyle in DraftSight

By MJ Smyth October 29, 2019
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Creating a LineStyle in DraftSight

Sometimes, when creating a drawing, you need a LineStyle that is different to anything you have installed.  Perhaps it’s to highlight a service or a boundary and you just need to make it stand out. Well, in today’s blog, we … Continued

Starting A Project in DraftSight – Part 4

By MJ Smyth October 22, 2019
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Starting A Project in DraftSight – Part 4

While out on site during the week, a client asked me about Blocks in DraftSight and how I used them.  They don’t have a lot of blocks. They were in a very specific industry, but they wanted to have their … Continued

Starting A Project in DraftSight – Part 3

By MJ Smyth October 15, 2019
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Starting A Project in DraftSight – Part 3

In our previous blog, I spoke about setting up drawings for a project and I mentioned that my title block prompts the user to insert project data upon insertion. In today’s blog, I’ll talk about creating your own Title Sheet … Continued

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