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The Beauty of Auto-save & Backup

By MJ Smyth October 26, 2016
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The Beauty of Auto-save & Backup

I’ve been working with various CAD systems since back in 1992. My first CAD system was based on an old NEC 8088 chip with 640k of Ram, Dos 3.1, Dual 5 1/4″ Floppy Drives and a Hercules Mono Graphics card … Continued

DraftSight Professional – Hidden Gems

By MJ Smyth October 18, 2016
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DraftSight Professional – Hidden Gems

In todays blog, we are going to cover some of the lesser known functions within DraftSight Professional. I like to call these tools “Hidden Gems”. For instance, did you know about the Preview Recent Documents feature? You can hit F4 … Continued

SOLIDWORKS PDM and DraftSight: Streamline your Design Process and Save Time

By DraftSight October 15, 2016
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SOLIDWORKS PDM and DraftSight: Streamline your Design Process and Save Time

Trying to maintain better control of your dwg/dxf format files? Are you constantly trying to figure out which file is the latest version? Are you often searching multiple locations for a file? Do you need to ask around if a … Continued

Batch Printing in DraftSight Professional

By MJ Smyth September 19, 2016
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Batch Printing in DraftSight Professional

We’ve all been there… It’s late on a Thursday evening, it’s been a long day and you’re winding down, getting ready to leave the office for the day. Out of nowhere, your favourite Project Engineer arrives at your desk and … Continued

PDF Underlay in DraftSight Professional

By MJ Smyth September 9, 2016
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PDF Underlay in DraftSight Professional

If you’ve been working your way through the menus in DraftSight Professional, you’ve probably come across the PDF Underlay option. You may be wondering just what that is, so I’ll try to explain it to you. Many out there are … Continued

DraftSight Professional and LISP

By MJ Smyth September 8, 2016
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DraftSight Professional and LISP

DraftSight Professional has many added extras over the free version of DraftSight. My favourite is the ability to use LISP routines. What’s LISP I hear you ask? Well… LISP is basically a programming language first used way back in 1958. Yeah, that surprised me … Continued

Why should I switch to DraftSight Professional?

By MJ Smyth September 1, 2016
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Why should I switch to DraftSight Professional?

Since DraftSight was released, there has always been a free version. That version is not time limited, and it’s not crippled in anyway. Using the free version, you can open and edit drawings, print and create PDFS, like you would … Continued

The Importance of CAD Standards: Line Styles

By MJ Smyth August 26, 2016
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The Importance of CAD Standards: Line Styles

We’ve covered Layers, Blocks and Text Styles in our previous blogs on CAD Standards, how to create them and how to use them in DraftSight. In this blog we are going to talk about Line Styles, what they are how … Continued

The Importance of CAD Standards: Text Styles

By MJ Smyth August 18, 2016
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The Importance of CAD Standards: Text Styles

In previous blogs on CAD Standards in DraftSight, we spoke about the importance of Layers and Blocks. Today we are going to talk about Text Styles, what they are and how to use them. So, just what are text styles? … Continued

The Importance of CAD Standards: Blocks

By MJ Smyth August 8, 2016
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The Importance of CAD Standards: Blocks

In the last blog, I spoke about the importance of CAD Standards and went into detail on Layers, what they were and how to use them. In today’s blog, I’m going to talk about another important CAD Standard: Blocks and … Continued

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