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DraftSight 2019 – HomeByMe Integration

By MJ Smyth April 23, 2019
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DraftSight 2019 – HomeByMe Integration

HomeByMe is an online 3D Home Planning service developed by 3DVIA, part of the Dassault Systèmes family.  It’s not a fully featured CAD system, but it does allow the user to quickly and easily create rendered layouts in 3D. Once you’ve … Continued

DraftSight 2019 – New Import Ribbon Tab

By MJ Smyth April 16, 2019
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DraftSight 2019 – New Import Ribbon Tab

All versions of DraftSight 2019 now have a new Import Ribbon Tab which allows users to quickly attach and import supported file types in to DraftSight 2019. Using this new Ribbon Tab, users can attach Drawings (xrefs), Image Files, PDF Files … Continued

DraftSight – Block Attribute Manager

By MJ Smyth April 9, 2019
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DraftSight – Block Attribute Manager

Block Attribute Manager is one of the features only found in  DraftSight Professional and above, and, as the name suggests, it allows users to manage the attributes of their blocks within a DraftSight drawing. Starting the Block Attribute Manager is simplicity itself,  just enter … Continued

DraftSight Image Tracer

By MJ Smyth March 28, 2019
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DraftSight Image Tracer

There comes a time in every CAD users life, when you get asked, “Can you convert this image into CAD?”  It might be a scan of an old floor plan, it could be a logo, it might even be an … Continued

DraftSight 2019 – New Features

By MJ Smyth March 25, 2019
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DraftSight 2019 – New Features

DraftSight 2019 has just been released, so I thought I’d go through some of the new features in it. Image Tracer (DraftSight Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus only) Image Tracer allows you to import a Raster Image file into … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features 6

By MJ Smyth January 2, 2018
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features 6

Today, both of the new features we are going to talk about in DraftSight Professional 2018 deal with Dimensions. The first of these new features is Re-position Dimensions. Previously in DraftSight, the user had to select the dimension they wanted … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features 2

By MJ Smyth November 7, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features 2

In this weeks blog, we’re going to continue on explaining some of the new features in DraftSight Professional 2018. As we all know, in previous versions of DraftSight, if you used the Copy and Paste commands, your entities were pasted … Continued

DraftSight 2018 – New Features

By MJ Smyth October 31, 2017
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DraftSight 2018 – New Features

I mentioned a range of new features in DraftSight 2018 in last weeks blog.  This week, and for the coming weeks, I’m going to go into a bit of detail on these features and explain how they work. First up … Continued

DraftSight Professional 2017 and Polyline Editing

By MJ Smyth January 31, 2017
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DraftSight Professional 2017 and Polyline Editing

Since the first release of DraftSight back in 2010, it has always supported the creation of and editing of PolyLines. With DraftSight 2017, the list of editing features has been expanded!  The full list of editing features is: Add vertex to … Continued

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