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DraftSight Professional 2017 Dimension Offset Distances
There are many ways to spoil the look and feel of a drawing. Too many text styles, too many linestyles, badly placed text, incorrectly sized blocks, I could go on, but I think you get the idea. One of the … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and Predefined Layers
I previously wrote about The Importance of CAD Standards: Layers. If you haven’t read it, basically the blog post talked about what layers are, how you create them, why you should use them and so on. There’s no reason for … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 and DGN Support
There are two commonly used CAD File Formats. The first being DWG which DraftSight natively supports and the second being Microstations DGN. Previous versions of DraftSight did not support this file format, but with DraftSight Professional 2017, we are delighted … Continued
DraftSight Professional 2017 New Features
DraftSight 2017 is now available to the general public. Over the next few blog posts, we are going to cover some of the new features within DraftSight Professional 2017. So, you’re probably wondering just what these new features in DraftSight Professional 2017 … Continued
DraftSight Professional – Hidden Gems
In todays blog, we are going to cover some of the lesser known functions within DraftSight Professional. I like to call these tools “Hidden Gems”. For instance, did you know about the Preview Recent Documents feature? You can hit F4 … Continued
Batch Printing in DraftSight Professional
We’ve all been there… It’s late on a Thursday evening, it’s been a long day and you’re winding down, getting ready to leave the office for the day. Out of nowhere, your favourite Project Engineer arrives at your desk and … Continued
PDF Underlay in DraftSight Professional
If you’ve been working your way through the menus in DraftSight Professional, you’ve probably come across the PDF Underlay option. You may be wondering just what that is, so I’ll try to explain it to you. Many out there are … Continued
DraftSight Professional and LISP
DraftSight Professional has many added extras over the free version of DraftSight. My favourite is the ability to use LISP routines. What’s LISP I hear you ask? Well… LISP is basically a programming language first used way back in 1958. Yeah, that surprised me … Continued
Why should I switch to DraftSight Professional?
Since DraftSight was released, there has always been a free version. That version is not time limited, and it’s not crippled in anyway. Using the free version, you can open and edit drawings, print and create PDFS, like you would … Continued