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Announcing DraftSight21’s Latest Release – SP1

By DraftSight April 9, 2021
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Announcing DraftSight21’s Latest Release – SP1

DraftSight21 Service Pack 1 (SP1) provides even more tools to accelerate your complex workflows with Import PDF Drawings and Sheet Set Manager. As many of you know, DraftSight supports DWG files very well, all the way back to R12, that’s … Continued

DraftSight 2021 Eases the Transition from AutoCAD – Product Demo

By DraftSight March 18, 2021
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DraftSight 2021 Eases the Transition from AutoCAD – Product Demo

DraftSight offers smarter drafting at the best value – and we’re making a good thing even better with DraftSight 2021! We’re sharing a DraftSight21 product demo with Product Manager Oboe Wu at 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021 on DraftSight’s YouTube channel. DraftSight21 … Continued

DraftSight 2021 SP0 Now Available

By MJ Smyth March 3, 2021
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DraftSight 2021 SP0 Now Available

Well, the keen eyed users out there will have noticed that DraftSight 2021 has arrived. So what can you do with this new version of DraftSight that you couldn’t in previous versions? Let me tell you just some of the … Continued

Spell Checking in DraftSight 2020

By MJ Smyth April 15, 2020
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Spell Checking in DraftSight 2020

It’s been a crazy time recently, which is why my last four blogs have been about how you can use DraftSight® at home to continue your business and support the people working on the front line in these tough circumstances. … Continued

DraftSight – 3D Features Part 4

By MJ Smyth July 2, 2019
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DraftSight – 3D Features Part 4

Today we’re going to talk about the 3D Face and what it is. A 3D Face is a three- or four-sided surfaces in space. The difference between 2D and 3D surfaces is that 3D surfaces are shown as wireframe models, … Continued

DraftSight – 3D Features Part 3

By MJ Smyth June 26, 2019
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DraftSight – 3D Features Part 3

OK, so in the last two blogs we’ve introduced you to the 3D Modeling menu and its features in both DraftSight Premium and Enterprise Plus. Today we’re going to go Create a simple shape, View it in 3D, Shade it and then Rotate … Continued

DraftSight – 3D Features Part 2

By MJ Smyth June 18, 2019
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DraftSight – 3D Features Part 2

As I mentioned in last weeks blog, both DraftSight Premium and Enterprise Plus have gone 3D. In that blog, I gave a brief overview on the 3D features.  In today’s blog, we will take a more in-depth look at the … Continued

DraftSight Premium – 3D Features

By MJ Smyth June 11, 2019
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DraftSight Premium – 3D Features

You might have heard, DraftSight Premium and Enterprise Plus have gone 3D. Hold on a second, you’re probably thinking, in previous versions of DraftSight, you could already draw in 3D!  Yes, that is true, users could always, if they wanted, … Continued

Line and PolyLine are Non Coplanar Error

By MJ Smyth June 4, 2019
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Line and PolyLine are Non Coplanar Error

Over the last 10 blogs, we’ve covered a lot of the new features in DraftSight 2019. Today’s blog is a little different, it still applies to DraftSight, it just covers an issue I had in the last few days whilst … Continued

DraftSight 2019 – Click and Drag to Move

By MJ Smyth May 28, 2019
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DraftSight 2019 – Click and Drag to Move

Click and Drag… It’s a feature that does exactly what it says!  In previous versions of DraftSight, to move any entity, you had to do the following: Select the Move command. Select the Entity. Select the From Point. Select the … Continued

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