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DraftSight – Drawing Frame and Title Block Library

By MJ Smyth May 21, 2019
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DraftSight – Drawing Frame and Title Block Library

With DraftSight Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, users have access to to a large library of pre-made Frames and Title Blocks in ANSI, BSI, DIN, ISO and JIS standards.  How do you access these?  It’s quite simple actually, just … Continued

DraftSight 2019 – New VP Freeze Command

By MJ Smyth May 14, 2019
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DraftSight 2019 – New VP Freeze Command

Another of the many new features in DraftSight 2019 is the ‘New VP Freeze’ command.  So, what exactly does it do? Well, this new feature allows a user to quickly create a new layer which inherits the properties of the … Continued

DraftSight 2019 – Trimming Hatches

By MJ Smyth May 7, 2019
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DraftSight 2019 – Trimming Hatches

We’ve all been there… We’ve completed the hatching on a drawing only to notice that there is a mistake and you’ve hatched an area that should not have been hatched.  Now ordinarily, this is not a problem if you have … Continued

Using Formulas in Table Cells

By MJ Smyth April 30, 2019
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Using Formulas in Table Cells

Professional, Premium, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus,  users now have the ability to add formulas to their tables, just like you can in your favorite spreadsheet program. To start with, you need to insert a Table in to your drawing.  To do so, click on the … Continued

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

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