DraftSight Reviews

It's being used by a couple of designers for the electrical, fire alarm designs within our organization as part of our ongoing commitment to clients needs. It also assists our installation teams in designing around problems they encounter on sites, so that we can show progress and development for future installations.

Our company uses DraftSight across two departments. It addresses our design concerns regarding space availability and general arrangements of our builds. With DraftSight we can generate P&ID and other process flow drawings quickly and efficiently. This enhances communication across different teams. DraftSight also manages our block libraries across the organization helping us to remain consistent with our drafting conventions and symbols.

Draftsight is used by myself and one other designer for 2D CAD purposes to aid us with the technical designs of our products.

It is being used as an individual. I downloaded after my company went through a restructuring of software and wanted to wait to determine how we were going to utilize AutoCAD within our company. I found DraftSight after looking for a company AutoDesk alternative to CAD with similar functionality and DraftSight came highly recommended by many review sites. It helped our team do solar construction designs and work up simple details to aid us in building large projects.

I use Draftsight to design equipment that is used by the company that I do consulting with. These are mechanical parts and assemblies. I like the Draftsight product but the company that sells the product just passes the buck and does not help the customer.

We use DraftSight as our primary 2D CAD system and we have 12 users.

I haven't used it for very long, but right now I am using DraftSight to create small designs for kitchen and bathroom remodeling. Getting to learn how to design with it as a previous AutoCAD and SketchUp user is my biggest challenge, but I feel I can easily learn more, and I will continue practicing with it.

I use DraftSight every day and really like it. My reason for the low score is due to the inability to use it at home without deactivating it at work so I can activate it at home and vise versa. It is a real pain to do this especially if I forget to deactivate it at home, then I'm screwed at work. I would give this 5 stars if this issue were fixed. I did call in to discuss this with people at DraftSight, but their answer back to me was to purchase another seat if I want it at home. I work from home as well as at work and have been very frustrated with all I have talked with. I'm not trying to steal something, just make better use of my time. I use another software for my design work and they offer me the ability to have one copy at home and one at work. I have looked into other drawing programs and am not far from doing away with DraftSight due to this simple thought process.

DraftSight is being used only by myself to perform quantity take-offs from blueprints.

I use it for Civil Engineering and Municipal services CAD-drawings only on a stand-alone station.

We use DraftSight to collaborate with AutoCad users, as well as update drawings.

DraftSight is being used to create our scope of work. I can exactly indicate where our product needs to be installed on a scaled PDF. DraftSight works great and fulfills our needs.

I use Draftsight on a daily basis to create interior architectural drawings for high-end residential design projects. I work together with architects, across a variety of drafting/design platforms, to create design details to be built in new construction and renovations.

I use DraftSight for the beginnings of the start of creative engineering ideas, brainstorming pieces, making templates for model workup and the cutout and assembly of paper, cardboard, balusa mockups that will provide and prove in 3D, concept dimensions and visual true size aids to team members from other contributors and other interested members to touch and hold visualize.

I am constructing a camper van and I use DraftSight for all the interior cupboard design.

I use DraftSight for the 2D drawings of naval engineering.

I use DraftSight to make furniture details of new designs. I send these to manufacturers that I work for and they are produced in factories in the US, China and Vietnam. It is great for quick and accurate information on how to build new furniture samples and info can be exchanged back and forth.

I am the organization, for whatever it is; I'm essentially retired, helping out a few of my "customers" at perhaps a 5% or 10% level. I work perhaps an average of 2 days a month. I am occasionally sent drawings by newer versions of AutoCAD than that which I own and have substantially customized to do single-line hydraulic and pneumatic circuit diagrams. DraftSight allows my opening and saving them in a compatible format. I probably use it 2 or 3 times a year.

I use it strictly for my own benefit. I have an offsite design engineer that does the bulk of the design work, then he sends it to me and I'm allowed to review and tweak as needed. Being around ACAD for 20 years but never actually learning it completely and the ease of this software to learn has been excellent. And the help references are really good.

Our boss replaced his AutoCAD 2000 with this because he can customize his shortcuts/icons and it is cheap. He and I use it. It allows us to continue design work without purchasing an expensive new license of AutoCAD.

We use DraftSight for drafting shop drawings for our CNC machines.

We use DraftSight for 2D nesting.

DraftSight is used by two persons in our organization.

DraftSight is used for individual use of CAD operation of steel structural design in my company. I am a member of the sales engineering dept. My main task is to propose structural design to minimize fabrication and transportation cost of the buildings. When I describe steel structural plans, I make some blueprints using DraftSight.

DraftSight in my organization is for single-use by owner to prepare drawings for fire safety plans.