SOLIDWORKS World – Day 1
Well it’s Day 1 of SOLIDWORKS World 2017 here at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It started with a bang, the General Session had a mix of speakers, all very passionate about SOLIDWORKS and what you, the user can do with … Continued
Meet the DraftSight Presenter – Ram Chilukuri
It’s safe to say that Ram Chilukuri knows DraftSight inside and out. He’s a Software Development manager for DraftSight and was a part of the R&D team that designed the API (Application Programming Interface). “I have been using DraftSight … Continued
Meet the DraftSight Presenter – John Nolin
Meet John Nolin! He’s a Technical Representative (AE) for SolidXperts and will be presenting a DraftSight session at SOLIDWORKS World 2017 in Los Angeles next week. His session, “The DraftSight Toolbox – and Tips and Tricks” will help you get more … 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 Dimension Offset Distances
There are many ways to spoil the look and feel of a drawing. Too many text styles, too many linestyles, badly placed text, incorrectly sized blocks, I could go on, but I think you get the idea. One of the … 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 Predefined Layers
I previously wrote about The Importance of CAD Standards: Layers. If you haven’t read it, basically the blog post talked about what layers are, how you create them, why you should use them and so on. There’s no reason for … Continued