Open your legacy drawings for viewing, printing or editing, or easily create a new drawing with elements such as lines, polylines, arcs, circles, ellipses, layers, blocks, and more. Add annotations like notes, dimensions, tables, hatches, and revision clouds, use modify tools to move, copy, rotate, mirror, pattern, scale, trim, or chamfer your design, and print to a plotter, printer or file.
DraftSight Standard makes it easy to create, format, and arrange layers to ensure your design is organized and conforms to layering standards. Easily set layer attributes like LineColor, LineStyle, and LineWeight, and utilize the Layers Toolbar to quickly select your active layer.
Import existing blocks from your libraries or create new blocks that can be used as repeated elements in your designs. Name, save and reuse your blocks to ensure consistency across all of your projects.
Efficiently insert dimensions into your drawings with DraftSight’s dimension tools. Easily define the look and feel of your dimensions including font, arrows, text direction and more.
Increase your efficiency with features like PDF Underlay to reference your PDFs, Insert Centerlines for quick and accurate centerline insertion, and Quick Modify to move, rotate, copy and scale entities with one command.
Add an external reference to your current drawing.
Edit polylines with more options like taper, create arc, and add vertex at midpoint.
Automatically collapse palettes with mouse gestures to maximize screen area.
Easily view entities with colored highlighting instead of legacy dashed-style highlighting.
Set a layer for hatches and gradient fills in the corresponding dialog box.
Remove duplicate entities or overlapping parts of entities from your drawing.
Support for high-resolution (4K) displays.
Set a "hairline" linewidth in the print dialog box used especially for laser cutter output.
Quickly preview the content of layers one by one or by a set of specified layers.
Set a new base point for a block using the right mouse button.
Transfer entities from Model workspace to Sheet workspace and vice versa.
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