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Top FAQs Answered in DraftSight Webinars: Your Ultimate Guide
Those of us here at DraftSight love doing webinars and other live events. It allows us to show off what we think is the best choice for your 2D CAD platform, and we also get to interact with our users … 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
DraftSight: The Scoop on Block Attribute Pt. 2
Visit DraftSight.com to explore DraftSight 2019 and learn how you can experience the freedom to do more with a better 2D drafting and 3D design experience. Picking up where we left off last blog, this post will be covering how … Continued
Starting A Project in DraftSight – Part 4
While out on site during the week, a client asked me about Blocks in DraftSight and how I used them. They don’t have a lot of blocks. They were in a very specific industry, but they wanted to have their … Continued
Starting A Project in DraftSight – Part 2
OK, in the last blog, I discussed how I start each DraftSight Project. Today’s blog is a continuation of that and will cover the next step, setting up Title Sheets, Drawings and Issue Sheets. So, we’ve covered what I do … Continued
3 Ways to Clean Drawings Efficiently
When we work on large drawings there are so many properties in the project that we don’t use, like layers, block definitions, line styles, dimension styles and others. Drawings downloaded from the web, for example, often have many … Continued
DraftSight 2018 – New Features 4
This weeks blog is going to deal with two new Block features. They are Removing Attributes from a Block and Redefining the Base Point of a Block. Both features are new to DraftSight Professional 2018 and are easy to use. In … Continued
3D ContentCentral
Have you heard of 3D ContentCentral? It’s an online repository of 3D and 2D CAD Models of User-Contributed and Supplier-Certified Parts, Assemblies and more. Best of all, it is free. Yes, you read that right, access to this huge library of … 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