DraftSight Tips and Tricks
DraftSight 2022 New Features: Custom Blocks
Blocks have been a core component of CAD software from their earliest days. These named groups of entities act as a single item, and often represent repeatable content, such as symbols, details, or components. Blocks are preferable to individual entities, … Continued
DraftSight 2022 New Features: Spline Enhancements
Splines have been available in DraftSight for a long time, but your options to create and edit them have been limited. DraftSight 2022 addresses these shortcomings by providing additional creation methods, and an all-new editing tool. These enhancements can be … Continued
The Amazing New Features in DraftSight 2022: Sheet Set Manager Enhancements
The Sheet Set Manager is an organizational tool that helps you manage a large set of drawing sheets across multiple DWG files. I am a big fan of this functionality because it prevents me from having to the tediously open … Continued
Discover the DraftSight Success Resources
If you are new to DraftSight or looking to take your skills to the next level, we have several resources that are perfect for you. Our favorite resources include the new DraftSight’s Learning Path, eBooks, on-demand webinars, the DraftSight Community, … Continued
Getting Started with DraftSight Learning Path
We are excited to announce our new Getting Started with DraftSight Learning Path, a series of seven short videos to help you get started with DraftSight, is now available. The Learning Path series will take you through the basics of … Continued
What is the Mechanical Toolbox in DraftSight?
DraftSight was developed with the Mechanical drafter in mind. After all, it was originally intended as a 2D drafting package for our SOLIDWORKS users. So, it should be no surprise that every version of DraftSight, from Professional to Enterprise Plus, … Continued
Need to Know DraftSight Essentials?
Some of us fall under the category of CAD “power users”, using DraftSight all day, every day. And some of us are more occasional or novice users, and we’re hoping to support those of you in the latter category on … Continued
Making the Switch – Getting Started with DraftSight
Congratulations! If you’ve recently left your legacy CAD behind (or are evaluating transitioning to DraftSight) we appreciate the agonizing analysis that goes into these decisions. Breaking up is hard to do, we get it, but the grass really may be … Continued
Removing the Pain from Printing and Plotting!
One of the most prevalent pain points in any CAD software is the need to produce output. Whether it’s printing to an electronic format (PDF etc.), an office printer or a large format plotter, we’ve probably all experienced our fair … Continued
DraftSight Does a Better Job at Importing PDF Files
By now, you may have heard me refer to DraftSight being a fraternal twin with AutoCAD®. They’re not exactly the same but are extremely similar. And, just like human fraternal twins, one might be better at something than the other … Continued