DraftSight

Powerful 2D design and drafting solution

What is DraftSight?

DraftSight is a feature-rich 2D and 3D CAD solution for architects, engineers and construction service providers, as well as professional CAD users, designers, educators and hobbyists.

More options, choices and tools to suit your design needs and preferences.

Real design freedom is letting you work the way you want to work. It’s the ability to effortlessly go from 2D drafting to 3D modeling and back again in order to optimize and maximize designs. And the capability to seamlessly integrate with other Dassault Systèmes and SOLIDWORKS® solutions, including SOLIDWORKS PDM to easily manage your DWG file designs from first inspiration to final outcome.

DraftSight gives you the freedom to do what you do best — no matter who you are or what you’re trying to accomplish.

DraftSight Individual Offerings

For CAD users, Professionals, Educators and Students

DraftSight Premium

For individuals, designers, makers, manufacturers, professionals, and companies that need a robust 2D drafting and 3D design experience to help meet their needs on drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, laser cutting and 3D printing.

It includes all DraftSight Professional features plus a comprehensive set of 3D DWG design and constraint capabilities.

Download a 30-day trial or purchase from the DS Online Store. Note there is no support from Javelin for this product.

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DraftSight Professional

For professionals and companies that need an advanced 2D CAD drafting solution with powerful, productivity boosting features and API to help bring their designs to life quickly and easily.

Includes industry standard content that can be added to a document with ease, batch printing to print multiple files without opening them, and a familiar user interface that makes it easy to transition from other comparable CAD applications.

Buy now from the DS Online Store. Note there is no support from Javelin for this product.

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DraftSight Enterprise Offerings

For large organizations

DraftSight Enterprise

For large organizations with many users or multiple sites that need an advanced 2D CAD drafting solution with powerful, productivity boosting features and API to help bring their designs to life quickly and easily.

Enterprise includes full technical support from Javelin and network licensing to enable concurrent usage across your organization.

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DraftSight Enterprise Plus

For large organizations with many users or multiple sites that need a robust 2D drafting and 3D design experience to help meet their needs on drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, laser cutting and 3D printing.

Includes all DraftSight Enterprise features plus a comprehensive set of 3D DWG design and constraint capabilities, full technical support and network licensing to enable concurrent usage across the organization.

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Capabilities

A better way to create, edit, and view DWG files

Features	Professional (2D)	Premium (3D)	Enterprise (2D)	Enterprise Plus (3D)
2D Design Tools Create basic elements such as lines, polylines, arcs, circles, ellipses, layers, blocks, and others.
2D Documentation Tools Create basic annotation elements such as notes, dimensions, tables, hatches, clouds, and others.
Community Resources Offer learning resources and a collaborative environment to interact with your peers, ask questions, and share opinions.
Toolbox Quickly generate hardware, holes, balloons, Bills of Materials (BOMs), welding and surface finish symbols.
Batch Printing Send a set of drawings and sheets to printers in a batch job.
Drawing Compare Compare graphically similar entities between two drawing documents.
Power Trim Trim multiple, adjacent entities by dragging the pointer across each entity.
G-Code Generator Communicate with a CNC machine for fabrication.
DGN Import Directly import and convert the DGN file format drawing into a DraftSight project for direct editing.
DraftSight APIs Allow end users or third-party developers to customize and automate DraftSight.
Image Tracer Convert an imported raster image file (ex. floor plan, logo) into vectorized line entities.
Using Formulas in Table Cells Use formulas in cells with arithmetic operators and the Sum, Average, and Count functions.
Trimming of Hatches and Gradients Trim hatches and gradients with the Trim and PowerTrim commands.
Premium Tools
3D Modeling Tools Introduces 3D modeling using basic geometrical shapes (ex. Box, Pyramid) or other methods (ex. Extrude, Revolve) with Boolean operations (ex. Union, Subtract).
2D Constraints Use 2D Constraints to control drawing entities parametrically by specifying geometric and dimensional properties of entities.
Interoperability Tools
3DEXPERIENCE® Marketplace Integration
HomeByMe Integration
3DEXPERIENCE, GEOVIA, DELMIA, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, PDM Connectors
PDF Import/Convert & Underlay
DGN Import/Convert & Underlay
Customization Tools
Application Programming Interface (API)
Macro Recording
Enterprise Tools
Network License Enable concurrent usage and compliance across the organization.
Deployment Wizard Enable large groups of users to install or upgrade DraftSight.
Technical Support Answer questions or troubleshoot issues related to DraftSight.

DraftSight Features

Built with AutoCAD users in mind, DraftSight includes the following:

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

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 & Simple Notes
Tables
Blocks and Block Attributes
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 & center marks

Interoperability

Read and write support for DWG/DXF files¹
Save DWG/DXF files back to previous versions¹
Create binary or ASCII DXF files¹
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

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, text style, etc.

¹Uses the Teigha™ Classic for .dwg files and Teigha for .dwg files specifications from the Open Design Alliance.

*Standalone license. Activation required.

Testimonials

"DraftSight is the best alternative to AutoCAD 2D on the market today. In addition to being a free product, as with all of Dassault Systemes products, DraftSight is a pleasure to work on and with."

— Larry Sketo, Owner, Design Pallets, Inc.

"With DraftSight, we have implemented a unique and standard solution that responds to our need to create and exchange 2D geometry."

— Marcel H. Gerber, VPLM competency center manager, Bobst Group

"DWG files are the most popular file format for 2D CAD data in the world. It was only natural that we choose a solution that processes this format natively and renders DWG data incompatibility issues a thing of the past."

— Thanh Canh Pham, Project Manager, Bobst Group

DraftSight Benefits

Your software. Your vision. Your community

The DraftSight community.

The online DraftSight community facilitates a collaborative, design-focused environment where the global community of CAD users can learn and interact with community members, and let their opinions be heard about specific topics, challenges or anything else they’re passionate about when it comes to CAD and DraftSight.

DraftSight support options.

Free Community Support provides immediate, open access to engaging online training videos, easy-to-follow tutorials, curriculum materials and more.

The Enterprise License Subscription package is ideal for organizations that need telephone, remote, and email support from technical experts

Ideal for students.

For students, DraftSight offers:

Web access to download DraftSight free at home and in their dorm.
Immediate, open access to engaging online training videos, easy-to-follow tutorials, curriculum, materials and much more.
Free access to upgrades.