DraftSight
House Project
I’m getting some work done in my house over the next few months and thought that having a set of layout plans would make life easy. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a set, but I did have a JPG image that … Continued
Some Tips and Tricks
In today’s blog, we are going to cover some tips and tricks that may just make your DraftSight life a little easier. For example, did you know you change the default DWG version to an older version in DraftSight? Why … Continued
Linking DraftSight and Excel
The last few blogs have been tough going, there’s been a lot of reading and a lot of tech talk. This week, well we are going to keep it relatively simple. Today, we are going to link DraftSight and Excel … Continued
Customising Ribbon User Interface using DraftSight API
In our last blog, we talked about the DraftSight API and gave an brief insight into it and what it can do. In today’s blog, we are going to continue talking about the DraftSight API and how you can use … Continued
DraftSight API
We are going to get a little serious in todays blog, no more t-shirt making or vinyl cutting for the moment. Today we are going to deal with the DraftSight API SDK. Some of you may be wondering “What is … Continued
DraftSight and Vinyl Cutting
Following on from last weeks blog on using DraftSight for Embroidery, this week we are going to talk about using DraftSight for cutting Vinyl. Using a Vinyl Cutter in DraftSight is very similar to using a Printer or Plotter. First … Continued
DraftSight and Embroidery
CAD… Of all the images those 3 letters conjure up, I’ll bet embroidery doesn’t feature anywhere! Surprisingly though, DraftSight and Embroidery work very well together. Recently, we had the chance to visit the new 3DEXPERIENCE FabLab based in the Boston Waltham Campus building. … Continued
DraftSight and eDrawings
Did you know that your DraftSight drawings can be exported to the SOLIDWORKS eDrawings file format? No? Well they can! If you didn’t know that, you are probably wondering just what the eDrawing format is. Let me explain. eDrawing is … Continued
DraftSight Filters
The SelectionFilter command in DraftSight allows you to create selection sets to filter entities within DraftSight. Simply put, it allows you to filter entities by various different criteria. You could, for example, create a filter to find all objects with … 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