DraftSight Tips and Tricks
DraftSight Professional on mac OS Big Sur
So Apple’s latest desktop OS, Big Sur, was released recently. I thought it was about time I upgraded one of our MacBooks here in the office to Big Sur and install DraftSight Professional onto it. I downloaded the latest version … Continued
Moving from AutoCAD to DraftSight with Lynn Allen
Lynn Allen Walks Us Through the Move from AutoCAD to DraftSight DraftSight is pleased to kick of a new video series, DraftSight Insights with Lynn Allen, who spent over 20 years with Autodesk, and Cadalyst, a leading source for design … Continued
DraftSight 2020 Service Pack 3 Is Now Available
Just a quick blog to let you all know that latest version of DraftSight, DraftSight 2020 Service Pack 3 is now available for download. As always, we would recommend updating to this version if you have DraftSight 2020 installed. If … Continued
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
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
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
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
CAD Standards – Text
Carrying on from last weeks blog about CAD Standards, I’d like to expand to Text Standards. Very often, I see drawings with multiple Text Styles and Text Heights. It makes drawings look messy and in some cases, illegible. I have … Continued