Building Applications for DraftSight
We’re going to step away from the Customer Stories just for the moment and get tech heavy. Today’s blog, as you can guess from the title, deals with building applications for DraftSight. So, why exactly might you want to build … Continued
Customer Stories – Superheat
Superheat were founded on the principle that cutting-edge technology can offer a better way to provide on-site heat treatment solutions and are now a leading innovative heat-treatment provider. You might be wondering what a heat-treatment provider is, well, simply put, … Continued
Customer Stories – Haenen Design Studios
Based in Culver City, California, Haenen Design Studios is a brand identity and interior design consultancy. Founded in 2014 by Principal Designer, Christine Haenen, they create timeless elegance and interior spaces that clients love by pairing sophisticated colour and furniture … 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
Lynn Allen Talks DraftSight
Change, in the CAD world, is slow. Users like their particular choice of CAD software and are very hesitant to move to something else. Users have concerns over file compatibility, if they will need retraining, if the software is reliable, … 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
Saving time and legacy data at Young Industries
The design and manufacture of equipment for industrial processing of dry bulk materials is an exacting, mostly custom process. Every project requires following multiple sets of regulations and often the equipment is built to fit into an existing plant. Young … 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