DraftSight Pros and Cons

Not able to activate my paid subscriptionsince Feb, 2018 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Have not been able to activate Draftsight Professional since purchase in February, 2018.

Have not been able to contact anyone at the site despite many, many tries.

Unable to cancel and stop auto renewals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fast, intuitive, tunable, tons of plugins around the web, it's the best free alternative for CAD and it´s free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only 2D, the 3D view only has the "wiring" view, you can´t see a solid 3D view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is similar to AUTOCAD and allows you understand how to draw properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is necessary to update license. I find complicated to use layers and print Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This software is free to use. I never seen such an user friendly cad software. There are certain things you can do in couple of steps whereas the similar kind of software takes so many steps to do. Icons are more generic so it’s so easy to do all the work on the go. I used to make dxf file to cut in flow water jet and plasma table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are certain tools are unavailable in free version. The The premium version not worth the money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Draftsight actually has a good tool set. Such tools allow zooming, editing with lines, drawing, dimensioning, etc. The program is basically a bare-bones automated CAD drafting program. Its main virtue is that it can be utilized to review translations from programs like PowerCADD and VectorWorks. One can download it from the Draftsight website. PC and Mac versions are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unless one obtains the "Pro" version, one does not get a version with macros or other power tools, or library objects. There is no object intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that DraftSight is a free 2D based software that can be used by those of us in the engineering field where we don't use 2D often, but it gives us the option without buying a full license. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that the software UI appears to be a bit dated compared to others. But what more can you expect for a free software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seamless transition from AutoCAD. Software is identical and easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some bugs trying to recreate AutoCAD processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was a good reader for dwgs, even if it was limited in editing abilities and functions of a full Autocad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing full functionability of smart walls and such in AutoCad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing is the best thing. it is free. You have most of the options available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some options are unavailable compared to Autocad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fairly easy to edit 2D drawing files from most CAD software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is some limited functionality compared to full cad packages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.