DraftSight Features

DraftSight™ was built with CAD users in mind and includes:

User Environment & Features

• Cartesian coordinate system
• Command line input
• Traditional toolbars and menus
• Wheel-mouse pan & zoom
• Blocks & reference files
• Layers & layer manager
• Polygonal ViewPorts
• ViewPort locking
• Freeze, lock or turn off layers per ViewPort
• Background masks for notes
• Property manager
• View proxy objects
• Dynamic pan & zoom
• Command aliases
• Menu files
• CTB and STB print style tables
• SHX and TTF fonts
• LineStyle files
• Hatch pattern files
• Templates

Interoperability

• Read and write support for DWG/DXF files*
• Save DWG/DXF files back to previous versions*
• Create binary or ASCII DXF files*
• Attach image files (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, & .tiff)
• Attach external reference drawings
• Print to file (.plt, .jpg, .pdf, .png, & .svg)
• Save as .wmf, .jpeg, .pdf, .png, .sld, .svg, .tif, & .stl file formats
• Multi-page PDF creation
• Publish to eDrawings or Drawings Now

Productivity Enhancers

• Consolidated options dialog
• Enhanced, easy to read, command prompts
• Home palette
• Smart calculator
• Quick print
• Context sensitive help

Setup and Administration

• Support for Windows®, Mac & Linux operating systems
• Multi-language character set support including Unicode fonts
• Customizable interface: command aliases, double-click actions, menus, right-click menus, shortcut keys, toolbars, etc.
• Quick and free to download
• Fast “one-click” installation

Entities

• Arcs, circles, & lines
• Notes & SimpleNotes
• Tables
• Blocks and BlockAttributes
• Ellipses & elliptical arcs
• RichLines, PolyLines, 3D PolyLines, & Splines
• Points & rings
• Hyperlinks
• ViewPorts
• Masks & region
• ISO, ANSI & Traditional Hatch patterns
• Solid & gradient Fill
• Dimensions: Arc length, radius, diameter, baseline, linear, ordinate, etc.
• Tolerances, Leaders & CenterMarks

Drafting Tools

• Snap & Grid
• Chamfer & Fillet
• Tracking guides & Polar guides
• Get area, distance, or coordinates information
• Double-click editing
• Undo/Redo
• EntityGrips, EntitySnaps, Entity
• InfiniteLines, Rays & Reference Points
• Select entities using filters, SmartSelect, or by window, crossing window, crossline, polygonal window, etc.

Drawing Setup Tools

• Customizable coordinate system
• RichLine styles
• Layer manager
• Table styles
• Points format
• Text Styles
• Unit system
• Multiple layout
• Dimension styles
• Named page layouts

Edit Tools

• Move, scale & rotate
• Stretch & change length
• Mirror, copy, offset and pattern copy
• Trim & extend
• Split & weld
• Edit blocks in-place or isolate for edit
• Open reference drawings from within the base drawing
• Clip references and images
• Modify Hatch and fill pattern, origin, etc
• Edit note properties: direction, justification, line spacing, text height, TextStyle, etc.