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PRODUCTS > DRAFTSIGHT
Advanced Technology Enterprise presents and welcomes you to a better way to create, edit and view DWG files – the place to do it all. Be it SolidWorks or the other diverse array of design solutions Advanced Technology Enterprise offers; we understand the importance of value, and this is one of our many free platforms we offer to you.
DraftSight is a FREE professional-grade, open 2D CAD product that can be used to create 2D drawings; update and maintain .dwg and .dxf files; create PDF files; and exchange files with companies who either provide or require data saved in either.dwg or .dxf file formats. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators. Download our free CAD software for Windows®, Mac® or Linux® and start working!
Based on an advanced architecture, DraftSight has a small footprint and should only take a few minutes to download. At the DraftSight website, you can find a user community that you can join to talk with other users, submit ideas for new functionality, and even get plug-ins. With more than 1.6 million downloads, see for yourself why Draftsight is widely used!
DraftSight is also available in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian. That’s a baker’s dozen of languages!
DraftSight™ was built with CAD users in mind:
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, 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, 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 style, etc.
* Uses the Teigha™ Classic for .dwg files and Teigha for .dwg files specifications from the Open Design Alliance.
DraftSight and the DraftSight logos are trademarks of Dassault Systèmes in the US and/or other countries.
Draftsight is just a stepping stone to what your company can achieve in Design That Drives Your Business. At Advanced Technology Enterprise we would like to work together with you to formulate your best options, without cost!
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