DraftSight Tips and Tricks
DraftSight Professional 2017 and AutoComplete
Auto-Complete… How many times have you looked at a drawing and just wished it would finish itself? If you are anything like me, I would imagine it’s countless times! The new AutoComplete function in DraftSight Professional 2017 won’t do your … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and Pattern Along a Path
Most of us will be familiar with the existing Array / Pattern command in DraftSight. For those who are not, I’ll briefly explain what the Array / Pattern command is. The Array / Pattern command creates multiple copies of selected … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and Polyline Editing
Since the first release of DraftSight back in 2010, it has always supported the creation of and editing of PolyLines. With DraftSight 2017, the list of editing features has been expanded! The full list of editing features is: Add vertex to … Continued
DraftSight Support Options
In the last few blogs, I’ve pretty much covered most of the features available to the end user in DraftSight Professional and I’ve tried to give clear and simple explanations on how to access these functions. One area I haven’t … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and XLSX Support
DraftSight Professional 2017 allows users to export tables such as Bills of Materials to the XLSX File Format using the Export Table feature. To use the command, first click on the Annotate tab and then, in the Tables panel. select … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and the Heads Up Display
There are many new features in DraftSight Professional 2017 and one of my favourites is the Heads Up Display. I know, that sounds like something in a high end car, but it’s not, it’s more useful than that! Let me explain … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and DGN Support
There are two commonly used CAD File Formats. The first being DWG which DraftSight natively supports and the second being Microstations DGN. Previous versions of DraftSight did not support this file format, but with DraftSight Professional 2017, we are delighted … Continued
DraftSight the Purge…
In previous blogs, I’ve spoken about layers, linestyles, textstyles, blocks and so on. Over the course of a project, these can build up within your drawing and increase the file size substantially. Back when I first started in the CAD … Continued