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Customer Stories – California Wire Products Corporation
California Wire Products Corporation (Cal-Wire) is the leading manufacturer of woven wire products on the West Coast of the USA. Established in 1948, Cal-Wire specialises in engineered-to-order wire and welded-mesh products that are custom-designed to meet specific customer needs. You … Continued
Building Applications for DraftSight
We’re going to step away from the Customer Stories just for the moment and get tech heavy. Today’s blog, as you can guess from the title, deals with building applications for DraftSight. So, why exactly might you want to build … Continued
Customer Stories – Superheat
Superheat were founded on the principle that cutting-edge technology can offer a better way to provide on-site heat treatment solutions and are now a leading innovative heat-treatment provider. You might be wondering what a heat-treatment provider is, well, simply put, … Continued
Electrical Drafting in DraftSight
Well over 50 percent of the CAD work I do in DraftSight is electrical related. That’s everything from Lighting, Data and Power Layouts to Board Schematics. Over the years, I’ve created and downloaded many blocks for my Electrical Library. Some … Continued
Lynn Allen Talks DraftSight
Change, in the CAD world, is slow. Users like their particular choice of CAD software and are very hesitant to move to something else. Users have concerns over file compatibility, if they will need retraining, if the software is reliable, … Continued
Converting a Drawing from Inches to Millimeters
A mistake I often see from new CAD Users is that they are drawing using the wrong units. I live in Europe, so the standard unit of measurement over here is Decimal, that means Metres, Centimetres, Millimetres and so on. … 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
Saving time and legacy data at Young Industries
The design and manufacture of equipment for industrial processing of dry bulk materials is an exacting, mostly custom process. Every project requires following multiple sets of regulations and often the equipment is built to fit into an existing plant. Young … Continued
Ten Years of DraftSight
DraftSight is coming up on it’s 10 year anniversary, time sure does fly! To celebrate, you can get 10% off Professional and Premium during the month of June. Some of you might remember 2009 with fondness. I don’t. It was … Continued