DraftSight coming soon to a cloud near you
Thanks to smartphones and tablets, we live in a era where data is created and consumed everywhere. Yet it seems the CAD industry, by and large, thinks all CAD work is done on desktops with full-featured CAD software. Some vendors … Continued
Using Formulas in Table Cells
Professional, Premium, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus, users now have the ability to add formulas to their tables, just like you can in your favorite spreadsheet program. To start with, you need to insert a Table in to your drawing. To do so, click on the … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – HomeByMe Integration
HomeByMe is an online 3D Home Planning service developed by 3DVIA, part of the Dassault Systèmes family. It’s not a fully featured CAD system, but it does allow the user to quickly and easily create rendered layouts in 3D. Once you’ve … Continued
How much compatibility do you need?
Consider the lowly rectangle. You first met formally in elementary school. If you were paying attention you learned a rectangle is not always a square but a square is always a rectangle. And then you flicked a spitwad at the … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New Import Ribbon Tab
All versions of DraftSight 2019 now have a new Import Ribbon Tab which allows users to quickly attach and import supported file types in to DraftSight 2019. Using this new Ribbon Tab, users can attach Drawings (xrefs), Image Files, PDF Files … Continued
DraftSight – Block Attribute Manager
Block Attribute Manager is one of the features only found in DraftSight Professional and above, and, as the name suggests, it allows users to manage the attributes of their blocks within a DraftSight drawing. Starting the Block Attribute Manager is simplicity itself, just enter … Continued
DraftSight 2019 – New Features
DraftSight 2019 has just been released, so I thought I’d go through some of the new features in it. Image Tracer (DraftSight Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus only) Image Tracer allows you to import a Raster Image file into … Continued
A new era for DraftSight
February 2019 marked the beginning of a new era for DraftSight®. Dassault Systemès used the SOLIDWORKS® World 2019 conference in Dallas to recommit to DraftSight as an essential piece of its total design services portfolio going forward. There are many … Continued
SOLIDWORKS World 2019 – DraftSight Review
Wow, this day last week the DraftSight team were all making their way home from SOLIDWORKS World 2019. I don’t know about you, but it went by in the blink of an eye! So, what did we learn at #SWW19 this … Continued