DraftSight Professional
Experience a powerful 2D design and drafting solution that lets you create, edit, view and markup any kind of 2D drawing. It includes productivity tools, an API, and a familiar user interface that makes it easy to transition from other comparable CAD applications. Plus, choose between subscription and non-subscription purchase options that meet your needs.
DraftSight Professional subscription 12 monthsThis is a subscription product with a fee of $199.00 per year. You can cancel your subscription anytime. This purchase allows you to use DraftSight Professional for 12 months and entitles you to download all upgrades during that period. Runs on Windows only. |
DraftSight Professional Features
DraftSight Professional |
DraftSight Standard |
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Straight-forward 2D documentationDesign and drafting tools. |
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Community ResourcesAccess to online community support and an abundance of learning resources, including our free “Getting Started Guide”. |
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DGN File SupportImport DGN files for direct editing, or attach them for reference or retracing purposes. |
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Toolbox for DraftSightA standards-based mechanical symbol library and mechanical annotation add-on. |
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Design LibraryThe Design Library tab in DraftSight’s Task Pane provides a central location for user-defined reusable elements such as blocks. |
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Drawing CompareDrawCompare is used to graphically compare entities between two drawing documents. |
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Batch PrintingSend a set of drawings and Sheets to printers in a batch job and save batch print jobs to Batch Print List (*bpl) files for subsequent use. |
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G-Code GeneratorConvert your drawing data to G-Code to send the data to a CNC machine to create your part. |
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DraftSight APIs and API updatesAPIs allow end users to customize and automate DraftSight. |
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Product upgradesNew releases and service packs that become available during your entitlement period. |
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Block Improvements |
Curved Text |
Dimensioning Improvements |
G-Code Append |
DraftSight 2018 New Features Overview |
Quick Input Methods |
Usability Improvements Part 1 |
Dimensioning Improvements
Click anywhere on a dimension to reposition, and place dimensions with widgets for automatic alignment and spacing.
Quick Input Methods
Provides a command entry interface near the cursor to input coordinates, distances, and angles.
Usability Improvements Part 1
Paste entities to the active layer regardless of their original properties, and see improved entity highlighting with new functionality and color options.
Block Improvements
Set a new base point for a block using the right mouse button, and blocks with text attributes can now be exploded while retaining the original attribute’s definition and style.
G-Code Append
Append G-Code data from one drawing to another quickly and easily.
Curved Text
Place text along an arc to better control the text direction and location.
Customer Story
Young Industries
“With DraftSight, we can manipulate past projects and our design library of P&ID symbols to save time and effort. In short, DraftShight gives us greater flexibility to work with 2D file formats and design entities more quickly and easily.”