Uses a minimal, yet simple UI to create, edit, view, and mark up 2D drawings. It includes production tools, an API and makes transition easier from other CAD apps.
DraftSight is a software program created for CAD users, offering them the tools to create, view, and manage DWG and DXF drawings. The tools can be used even by novice users as long as they have some knowledge CAD drawings. The software installation process is quite intuitive, though it does ask for patience because it lasts several minutes.
The right word for the GUI is modern. Besides the modern look, it's easy to navigate through its menus because of its well-delimited interface sections and big text and button icons.
The program comes packed with different features that improve the user experience. One of them, called G-Code Append, allows users to re-work the user interface and add a program append capability.
Also, DraftSight supports formats like DWG, DXF and DWT; has a wide array of formatting tools, such as styles for texts, tables, scales, and offers the option to insert lines, rectangles, circles, ellipses, text or masks.
You can now click anywhere on a dimension to reposition and place dimensions with widgets for automatic alignment and spacing, thanks to some dimensioning improvements. Moreover, it provides users with a command interface where they can input coordinates, distances and angles.
Overall, DraftSight, despite being a program that doesn't allow for 3D drawing and which consumes a lot of system resources, remains a interesting choice for CAD users.
v2018.3 [Nov 30, 2018]
-Enhances Select Matching (“Anpassung auswählen”) to work more easily in German language to avoid typing additional word to show settings.
-Improves the stability of DraftSight 2018 with Mac OS 10.14 Mojave.
-Improves Title.dcl file to work properly in DraftSight.
-Improves printing experience and stability when using HP DesignJet 800 driver with“PrintError: The handle is invalid.”
-Corrects a problem in the German version of DraftSight where option “Einstellungen” is not recognized unless the entire word is typed.
-Fixes the problem when creating DWG files from DraftSight 2013 or other CAD system encountering limited functionality with the latest version of DraftSight 2018
-Improves the Options for “Entity Frame Control” so that the settings can be saved.
-Fixes the problem where incorrect values are captured in G-code from G-Code Generator.
-Corrects the behavior where Toolbars in Tool Matrix becomes greyed out and inaccessible when closing all files and using command File > New.
-Fixes the problem where DraftSightto PDF task failed with error “The supplied object ID is not valid.”
-Enhances the stability of Scale (command) entities to avoid the application hanging or stopping with no recovery.
-Allows changing the values of block attributes from the command line.
-Improves the stability of DraftSight 2018 while using Batch Print (specific to Windows 7OS).
-Improves the performance when moving exploded blocks with a high-resolution 4Kmonitor.
-Corrects the behavior where Toolbox Weld Symbol changes appearance when Edit definition.
-Improves the stability of DraftSight when closing the application (German OS).
-Enhances DraftSight to remember the default file open location.
-Fixes the problem where the content of DWG/DXF is not displayed for embedded DWG/DXF OLE in other applications with only DraftSight installed on PC.
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