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
- Export to file (.jpg, .pdf, .png, & svg.)
- Save as .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.