CAD Standards in DraftSight
Revolutionizing Design with DraftSight 2024
Witnessing the surge of technological advancements, DraftSight’s latest version, DraftSight 2024, revolutionizes the CAD software ecosystem. With its innovative features and enhanced functionalities, it provides a proven comfort level and productivity, providing an exceptional user experience. From a number of … Continued
Efficiency in Design: Harnessing DWG Standards with DraftSight
Before the advent of CAD, they were called Drafting Standards. Every drafting department had them, and you were required to adhere to them. If you didn’t, the checker would mark up the violations and send them back to you to … Continued
Custom Blocks – Stretching
We’ve recently written about some of the most commonly used activities that custom blocks can perform. In previous blogs, we introduced both visibility states and the mirror activity. Today, we’re going to be looking at stretching a block that is constrained to defined … Continued
Efficiently Organize Your Designs with DraftSight’s Powerful Layers Manager
Organizing your drawing files by Layer is one of the core tasks for most drafters. The Layers Manager provides easy access to all the functions you’ll need to create and manage your layers, along with their visibility, properties, and behavior. … Continued
Convert Inches to Millimeters in DraftSight – Part 1
When considering the differences between using Imperial or Metric units in DraftSight, it’s important to know that there are two scenarios to consider. In this first of a two-part series, we’ll focus on making sure you’re set up correctly to … Continued
Keyboard Shortcuts in DraftSight
I’ve done so many tips and tricks videos over the years, and you typically see me selecting commands from their respective icon on the ribbon (or elsewhere). Being a visual medium, it makes sense to show you where the command … 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
Cool Tools in DraftSight with Lynn Allen
Today I want to introduce you to some tools that you’re going to wish your current CAD product had but are only found in DraftSight. I picked my top five to show you, and I think once you see them, … Continued
DraftSight at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022
3DEXPERIENCE World is less than two weeks away from February 7-9, and we want everyone to attend virtually! All of the DraftSight sessions will be virtual, making it even easier for you to attend from the comfort of your office … Continued
