DraftSight Essentials

Lesson 1: 
User Interface

• Understand the pointing device options.
• Customize and employ mouse gestures
• Apply different workspaces
• Understand and use title bar commands
• Change drawing views
• Activate toolbars​
• Dock and undock side panels and toolbars​
• Use the help​
• Use a keyboard shortcut

Lesson 2: 
View Commands

• Dynamically pan about drawings
• Dynamically zoom in and out of drawings
• Zoom out to fit the drawing content
• Understand the benefits of rebuilding drawings
• Increase zoom time by adjusting drawing quality
• Zoom to previous views
• Create and employ named views

Lesson 3: 
Coordinates

• Understand how to set up a custom coordinate system
• Understand how to get a range of information from drawing entities
• Define preferred base angle, drawing units, length, and angle types
• Employ absolute, relative polar, and direct distance coordinates to draw entities
• Use entity snaps and overrides to create reference points for coordinate entity creation
• Create and understand drawing boundaries.

Lesson 4: 
Creating a Simple Drawing

• Create a new drawing.​
  Draw lines
• Employ multiple selection methods
• Delete unwanted entities
• Construct rectangles
• Create circles
• Undo and redo commands
• Construct arcs
• Create polygons

Lesson 5: 
Modifying Entities

• Move entities from one point to another
• Rotate entities
• Create mirrored copies of entities
• Stretch and enlarge entities
• Create copies of entities
• Rescale entities
• Quickly modify entities
• Trim wires to clean up a design

Lesson 6: 
Properties and Layers

• Quickly change layer states outside of the Layer Manager
• Activate a layer without interrupting workflow
• Create a new layer in the Layer Manager
• Change entity properties on-the-fly
• Paint properties from on entity to another

Lesson 7: 
Dimensions

• Create and use a new dimension style
• Employ smart dimensions
• Create linear dimensions
• Place angular dimensions
• Add diameter dimensions
• Use the dimensions palette to adjust values
• Create continuous dimensions
• Split dimensions extension lines

Lesson 8: 
Text

• Understand and create a text style
• Add simple notes
• Create multiline text notes
• Format text
• Add smart leaders to notes
• Place and adjust curved text
• Find and replace text in a drawing
• Use spell check to correct typos

Lesson 9: 
Blocks

• Understand and employ blocks
• Create a block
• Paste copied entities as a block
• Edit components to revise blocks
• Create and assign attributes to a block
• Update blocks
• Change attribute display modes
• Edit attribute content

Lesson 10: 
Printing

• Understand how to create print previews
• Understand print configurations
• Create a new print configuration
• Carry out a Quick print
• Manually set up a print configuration
• Define additional options
• Create and set up a color print style