DraftSight has a "professional pack" offering --for professional grade CAD product use -- as well as a free 2D drafting download, with which I have had most of my DraftSight experience. While many other CAD softwares only run on a Windows platform, DraftSight works easily on a Mac. The content and interface of DraftSight is very user friendly, maintaining similar symbols, icons, and inputs as other standard CAD software; these similarities enable easy communication between various CAD softwares when individuals are sharing files. No new graphics drivers or hardware are necessary for DraftSight products. File sizes are not gargantuan and exchanges between other softwares is easy. The company focuses on efficiencies and using customer feedback to improve their product---new product releases occur with the professional line of the product as well as the free version. Via the "DraftSight Community", they maintain extensive "user's guides," "resource libraries" and "user communities" that include blogs, training videos and other tips for product usage. The online solutions are easily navigable and offer succinct answers to broad and specific questions. While DraftSight does update users with new product features and offerings, they do not suffocate you with sales campaigns or relentlessly pitch new upgrades for a large cost. I also like that DraftSight offers a free download of the user's manual that I can reference digitally whenever needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
While DraftSight offers "DraftSight Community" for all users, the next level of technical support is the Prosumer, which offers advanced configuration and telephone/email support.....at a cost of $100/month or $315/12 months, it seems like a lot of additional money to pay on top of paying for a professional version of the product. I have not used the professional version as extensively as the free version, but the free version often times closed down on me unexpectedly in the middle of my session. Luckily, my settings were on autosave, so progress was not often lost in a work period, but it did happen often enough that it would get annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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draft sight standard I use it in Korea.
I pay annually for 2D CAD work.
It is easy to use because of its compatibility and fewer errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing I dislike.
Please update frequently for the convenience of users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Draftsight has a user friendly interface that makes modeling easy and accurate, its simple to set up with a customizable toolbar, and it offers plenty of features to help you along the way. The customer support is excellent and you can use it as often as you need. it works smoothly with other modeling software making it even more versatile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Like anything great, it has a few downsides. the high cost is a concern for some, and it has limited features for certain analtses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Replicates the AutoCAD experience for cheap money. I learned AutoCAD in the 1980s and the rule was (back then and still today), enter keybpard commands with your left hand, operate the mouse with the right. All the old keyboard commands from AutoCAD work great with DraftSight. The switch from one to the other was virtually seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is a problem with the Trim command. You can't trtim doing crossings, only by individually clicking the line to be trimmed.Irritating, but not a deal killer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This CAS program is perfect beginners beacuse its very use easy the interface is simple and the graphic look great making it a smooth experience for new users, and program is great for design , simulations and rendering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There noting negative about this program its vesatile and can do many things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It provides us with ease of interacting with the menus and the options which helps the members share ideas through the options and menus.
It has alot of good features which enables us create the drawings very fast.
It has multiple functions and very affordable making every member in the organisation to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has helped us alot hence I don't see any dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I've tried a few different software options, and Draftsight is the best value that I've found for simple electrical and pneumatic control diagrams. There is much more sophisticated software out there, but for what I do (simple diagrams a few times a year), Draftsight works great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Basic electrical elements (relays, switches, fuses, etc.) are included by default as blocks, but I end up making a lot of custom blocks for things like power supplies, drives, and PLCs, which takes a lot of time.
I have also found that the process for printing multiple sheets or saving as PDF to be pretty clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is a user-friendly software that allows me to draw and import images in sub-layers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I have nothing to say about the software itself. I have more of a language problem on the forum. What I regret is that there is no hotline when there are problems to solve. For me, this is the major downside because I have had problems lingering for 2 years without a solution... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The features in the Draftsight helps me to allign with my client need thus ensure my customer satisfaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of the features is somewhat similat to Autocad but with difference kind of names. So i need to google the function to find the similarity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We use this for our plant layout and love all the things that this has to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I wish there were a little bit more tutorials on the website. I feel like I dont know as much as I could on this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We decided to use Draftsight to replace AutoCAD as our autoCAD licensing was costing us a fortune and we can do the same things with Draftsight, so the best feature of Draftsight for us, is the price. Additionally, it was an easy transition from AutoCAD to Draftsight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are some additional features in our previous software, but we were able to work around any small shortcomings we found in Draftsite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
