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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
The Importance of CAD Standards: Layers
Ask any CAD Manager what really annoys them in the workplace (apart from unrealistic deadlines and the stress of the job), they will all, without doubt, mention users not sticking to CAD Standards. It’s heart breaking to open up a drawing … Continued