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.
v2022.0 [Mar 25, 2022]
- Create Custom Blocks with Multiple Variations: Real world objects represented by blocks can often be built into various variations, such as different sizes, shapes, and orientations for a door. These variations have led to a large amount of separate blocks and DWG files which have been hard to manage and take up a lot of storage space. Now in DraftSight 2022, you can integrate multiple variations into one single block. Custom Blocks can greatly reduce block and file quantities by the total number of variations, saving dozens, hundreds, even thousands of files.
- Convert and Edit AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks: AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks integrate multiple variations into a single block, which has been widely used by AutoCAD users. Since DraftSight 2021, users has been able to view Dynamic Blocks with full configurability. Now you can go one step further in DraftSight 2022, with the ability to convert Dynamic Blocks into DraftSight Custom Blocks and edit them with their configurations. This will help efficiently reuse your legacy data and significantly ease your transition to DraftSight.
- Organize a Large Number of Sheets Efficiently with Sheet List Tables, Selection: Sets, Reference Packaging, and DWF Publishing It has been extremely time-consuming and error-prone to manage and print a large amount of drawing sheets across multiple DWG files. Since DraftSight 2021, users have been able to manage sheets efficiently with the Sheet Set Manager. With DraftSight 2022, you can create and update a sheet list table as a summary with direct access to the individual sheet listed. Flexible selection sets can help quickly access desired specific sheets for later reuse.
- Enjoy the Dark Mode to reduce eye strain: Long hours staring at computers can exhaust users’ eyes, especially when the screens display a high level of brightness. To improve user vision and alleviate fatigue and exhaustion, we are introducing the Dark Mode option in DraftSight 2022. Now all the interface elements (menus, ribbons, palettes) have been redesigned to purposefully fit the dark display without compromising the contrast and display results, making this a productive and pleasant user experience if you prefer.
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