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DraftSight 2020 Custom Alias Commands

By MJ Smyth April 30, 2020
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DraftSight 2020 Custom Alias Commands

In last weeks blog I demonstrated how you can customize the Crosshairs and Cursors in DraftSight, along with the Command Window. In today’s blog, I’m going to show you how to customize commands to suit your own needs. I’ve said it … Continued

DraftSight Customization Options

By MJ Smyth April 22, 2020
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DraftSight Customization Options

If you are a newcomer to DraftSight®, but are familiar with CAD systems, you will have no trouble settling in and getting up to speed with DraftSight. Depending on your preferences though, you might want to make a few changes. … Continued

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

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