DraftSight features
Landscape Architecture How-To: Image Tracer for Landscape Architects/Designers
Wouldn’t it be nice to have your hand drawn sketches digitized in seconds? Think of all the time you would save! DraftSight’s Image Tracer tool allows landscape architects to attach jpgs or pdfs of sketches into the 2D work space … Continued
Follow the Leader in DraftSight
Today’s topic is all about Leaders. You’ll use them to draw leader lines that connect annotations to a drawing entity. Did you know that in DraftSight, you have three different ways to create them, with each type offering more drawing … Continued
A Smarter Selection Option: DraftSight
A Smarter Selection Option In my last blog post, I told you about an awesome tool called Smart Select. It’s extremely powerful and can save you all kinds of time when you have a complicated set of entities to select. … Continued
Why You Should Choose DraftSight Premium
Maybe you’ve already made the wise CAD software switch and have begun using DraftSight Professional. Or maybe you’re still paying the competition more than you feel you should be. No matter what your situation is, you might benefit by stepping … Continued
Did You Know You Could Do That in DraftSight?
Ramon Busboom, an Industry Business Consultant at Dassault Systèmes, recently presented a highly rated 3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 session that explores some hidden gems for the common DraftSight users and reviews some use cases that are slightly off the beaten path. … Continued
Top 10 DraftSight Blogs
We shared 49 new blog posts in 2021, and in those we covered a lot. Our new blog series, Making the Switch with Lynn Allen, covered new features and functionality including Visual LISP, Associative Patterns, Sheet Set Manager, PDF Import, Custom Blocks, Spline Enhancements, and Dark Mode. There … Continued
DraftSight 2022’s New Features: Dark Mode
In his book “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future,” Kevin Kelly insightfully pointed out Screening as one of the inevitable trends in the future. He argues that our lives will be surrounded by screens … Continued
DraftSight 2022 New Features: Spline Enhancements
Splines have been available in DraftSight for a long time, but your options to create and edit them have been limited. DraftSight 2022 addresses these shortcomings by providing additional creation methods, and an all-new editing tool. These enhancements can be … Continued
The Amazing New Features in DraftSight 2022: Sheet Set Manager Enhancements
The Sheet Set Manager is an organizational tool that helps you manage a large set of drawing sheets across multiple DWG files. I am a big fan of this functionality because it prevents me from having to the tediously open … Continued