DraftSight 2024 is a robust DWG design solution featuring a refined UI, tool palettes, layer palette, and the ability to merge layers for file size reduction. It introduces data link for Excel integration and efficient reference attachment. The update also brings enhanced hatch editing, improved layer control, a Mac OS Ribbon UI, and the unique ability to import CATIA drawings as DWG files. Explore all of the new features in DraftSight 2024.
Tool Palettes
Streamline the process of creating drawings and maintain uniformity. Access all your frequently utilized commands and functions conveniently in a single location. Guarantee that newly generated elements adhere to predefined standards throughout your drawings.
Layer Palette
Exercise greater layer control with the Layer Palette for all your layer commands within a single, accessible interface. The transition from a dialog box to a versatile palette not only enhances the visual workspace but also promotes efficiency. Now, you can efficiently manage your layers without interruption. This means that you can focus on your drawing, making adjustments to layers, and organizing your project, all while keeping your drawing in view.
CATIA Drawing Import
The DraftSight 2024 release includes support for CATIA drawings allowing you to collaborate with your supply chain with clarity and precision. You now have the ability to import CATIA drawings directly into DraftSight and open them as DWG files with no manual conversion required.
Enhanced User Interface
Navigate standard views and isometric views with ease by using the newly introduced View navigator in DraftSight 2024. Experience reduced eyestrain and enhanced feature visibility with the default Dark mode interface. In addition, a new workspace, CAD General, has been introduced. This workspace organizes all the tools in a conventional manner, similar to other CAD software’s, ensuring a smooth transition for DraftSight users.
Data Link
Introducing the new Data Link feature in DraftSight 2024. Now you can easily embed Excel files, maintaining real-time accuracy through two-way communication. Enhance your data management and foster cross-file collaboration with this advanced capability.
Merge Layer
DraftSight 2024 brings the Merge Layers feature, a robust tool designed to consolidate multiple layers into a single layer. This new addition simplifies complex drawings and allows for the organization of related entities, leading to optimized drawings that enhance efficiency and ensure precision in both 2D and 3D projects.
Attach Multiple Xrefs
Now you can conveniently attach multiple reference files at once. To utilize this feature, click "Attach Drawing" and choose the desired files, including image PDFs and DGN files. Reduce time spent managing file paths and get back to drafting quicker with this great new addition to DraftSight 2024.
Export Sheet
Now with DraftSight 2024 you can rapidly create new drawings from existing files without loss of detail. Export all the visible entities of the active sheet viewports in model space to a new drawing. This feature enables you to improve the legibility and focus of specific sections, areas, or views within your drawing by exporting scaled representations of model space, title blocks, and other annotative elements, including dimensions and notes.
Ribbon Based Interface for MacOS
Experience enhanced Ribbon UI for DraftSight on macOS. In the previous Mac version, the interface was menu-based with limited customization options. Now, macOS users can enjoy a unified, optimized user interface, providing the same experience as our Windows users.
Make Flat Snapshot Improvements
In DraftSight 2024, a significant improvement has been made to the Make Flat Snapshot command. Now, you can easily link foreground and hidden lines to specific layers from the Flat Snapshot dialog, enhancing organization and enabling swift visibility adjustments based on layer associations.
Reshaping Hatches
Explore the latest enhancements in DraftSight's hatch functionality, providing users with greater flexibility when reshaping hatches, all without the hassle of recreating them. This is achieved by breaking the associative link between the hatch and its original boundary, unlocking a range of grips surrounding the entire hatch. These grips empower users to execute a multitude of actions, including stretching, vertex insertion, and converting to arcs.
Feature Comparison
| Professional* | Premium** | Mechanical | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Tools | |||||
Draw tools (Line, Polyline, Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Table, Hatch, Cloud, Block...) |  | | | | |
Modify tools (Move, Copy, Rotate, Array, Scale, Trim, Chamfer, Split...) | | | | | |
Layer, Block, Group, Print | | | | | |
Spline Editing with Fit and Control Vertices | | | | | |
Hatch Fill and Gradient | | | | | |
Discarding Duplicate Entities | | | | | |
Quick Modify: Copy/Move/Rotate/Scale | | | | | |
Insert Centerlines | | | | | |
Pasting to Active Layer | | | | | |
Layer Preview | | | | | |
View Navigator | | | | | |
| Productivity Tools | |||||
| Toolbox (BOM, Revision Table, Hardware, Holes, Welding/Surface/Finish Symbols…) | | | | | |
| Design Resources Library | | | | | |
| Batch Printing | | | | | |
| Tool Palettes | | | | ||
| Merge Layer | | | | | |
| Drawing Compare | | | | | |
| Pattern (Linear, Polar, Path) | | | | | |
| Automatic Dimensioning & Dimension Arrangement | | | | | |
| Dimension Palette | | | | | |
| Mass Properties Calculations | | | | | |
| Quick Input Methods | | | | | |
| Using Formulas in Table Cells | | | | | |
| Viewport Layer Freezing | | | | | |
| Block Attribute Manager | | | | | |
| G-Code Generator | | | | | |
| Power Trim | | | | | |
| Image Tracer | | | | | |
| Pack and Go | | | | | |
| Publish to DWF format | | | | | |
| Create & Edit Custom Blocks | | | | ||
| Sheet Set Manager | | | | ||
| 3D Tools (3D Modeling, 3D Drafting, Solid Editing, Mesh, etc.) | | | | ||
| Constraints | | | | ||
| Mechanical Tools | |||||
| Open, edit and create Mechanical DWG files | | ||||
| Create, edit Bill of Materials (BOMs) | | ||||
| Edit and create part references | | ||||
| Insert part reference Balloon annotations | | ||||
| Automatically apply part references to Toolbox hardware | | ||||
| Support for ANSI, ISO, Din, JIS, BSI drafting standards | | ||||
| Interoperability Tools | |||||
| Dynamic Blocks Viewing | | | | | |
| Dynamic Blocks Editing | | | | ||
| Auto/Visual LISP Import | | | | | |
| 3DEXPERIENCE® Marketplace Integration | | | | | |
| Data Link - Excel to DraftSight | | | | ||
| 3DExperience Marketplace Integration | | | | | |
| HomeByMe Integration | | | | | |
| 3D Content Central Integration | | | | | |
| 3DEXPERIENCE, DELMIA, SOLIDWORKS Electrical, PDM Connectors | | | | | |
| PDF Underlay | | | | | |
| DGN Import/Convert & Underlay | | | | | |
| CATIA drawing import | | | | | |
| PDF Import | | | | | |
| Customization Tools | |||||
| Application Programming Interface (API) | | | | | |
| SVG scalable icons for HD displays | | | | | |
| Dark mode | | | | | |
| Macro Recording | | | | | |
| Enterprise Tools | |||||
| Network License | | | | ||
| Deployment Tool | | | | ||
| Technical Support | | | | ||
*Professional & Enterprise have the same features, with the exception of PDF import (see matrix). The only differences are the licensing model, deployment tool, and support model. Contact us for more information.
**Premium & Enterprise Plus have the same features. The only differences are the licensing model, deployment tool, and support model. Contact us for more information.
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