DraftSight Reviews

The company I work for plans retail brick and mortar hardware and building material stores. We use DraftSight to plan the retail space inside the stores. I can quickly draw up a footprint of the space with doors, windows, and support features like columns. Then I drop-in pre-drawn retail fixtures and checkout and the store is ready for our store planner to quote and present to the customer for review. With the tools and features in DraftSight, I can crank out 3 stores a day. DraftSight also allows me to quickly try out multiple retail fixture layouts for our customers to customize their retail space.

I used it to publish hydro-graphic surveys and produce drawings for other users. Allows use of 3rd party cad drawings and geo-referenced surveys and mapping.

Gives the ability to accept 3rd party information and own data sets and produce own output drawings in a timely fashion in house and return and manipulate easily.

I use DraftSight to view/create 2D drawings for electrical design, woodworking, laser cutting, and machining. It is important to be precise when it comes to engineering design and tools such as ESnap in DraftSight help facilitate that precision. Recently, I was trying to create a specific shaped PCB and could easily sketch it out in 2D space with precision using command-driven tools. I can then save as a DXF file which is accepted by most of the other circuit design tools I use.

I like precision and the ESnap feature allows me to make fewer mistakes.

Our sales engineers use it to design custom HVAC units for customers.

Yes, using the mouse wheel shortcut and minimal macros, we gain efficiency.

DraftSight is used as the primary 2D CAD software at Corvac. We use it to create and modify floorplans for manufacturing cells. It helps address issues such as process flow, space constraints, and even opportunities for improvement within existing production cells.

Yes, Corvac has achieved this through implementing a cheap software that many engineers can use to reduce dependency on the CAD group.

DraftSight is used individually to prepare engineering drawings and details. This software package provides approximately the same 2D designing/drafting features as AutoCAD, but it is less resource-intensive. Its biggest benefit may be its functionality vs. its cost, as being a low-cost alternative to AutoCAD. Our primary focus is 2D drawings and DraftSight is an exemplary tool for that use.

It is especially beneficial for getting drawings out if there are revisions. Revisions are easy to implement to use DraftSight to modify existing files. I have found this to be efficient and productive, and again, DraftSight relatively easy to use.

It is being used by an individual. DraftSight is useful for mechanical plant design. It is very user friendly and easy to use. I use it at work for different projects mainly to verify dimensions, and I use it personally at home doing shop drawings and as-built drawings and some construction drawings. I have used the standard 2D and found that I was able to use 3D since it is similar to the 2D drafting and you can jump back and forth easily. I use DraftSight for a lot of things. I do take-offs and square footage for materials, but also use it as a working platform for engineering designs and working with designers/architects.

Absolutely, yes! Being intuitive, it was quick and easy to use it for drawings. Being an energy engineer I also use a software called mc4. But the CAD of mc4 is much more complicated. Using as a cad DraftSight allows me to open and share files easily even with architects, civil engineers, and electrical engineers. The use of intuitive commands allows me to be very fast in creating a drawing. Also, the option of making blocks is very useful!

I am the only one in my organization using DraftSight. I use it at work for different projects mainly to verify dimensions and I use it personally at home doing shop drawings and as built drawing and some construction drawings. I have used both the Premium 3D as well as standard 2D and found that I was able to use 3D since it is similar to the 2D drafting and you can jump back and forth easily.

Since I am the only one using it and it was the only CAD software we had I guess it improved productivity 100%.

We use DraftSight to review and create drawings for our manufacturing and quality department.
It is very user friendly and easy to use.

DraftSight's ease of use allows us to get more done in a day. The software we used before was very cumbersome and not very friendly. When we switched to DraftSight our productivity increased immediately.

We use DraftSight to allow us to cut various raw materials in different patterns to meet customer needs. Each of our customers needs to have bullet resistant glass cut in order to fit different construction, military vehicle, and/or other types of products. Without DraftSight or some other type of CAD software, we wouldn't be able to fill these requirements.

I would have to say that this is not applicable to our organization. We have so many other determining factors which limit the speed at which we can deliver products to our customers. Data input speed is just not one of those factors that impact the speed at which we are able to produce our various products.

I’m a freelancer and I use it for about 10% of my work. Occasionally my clients require process diagrams for industrial systems or detailed drawings for screen printing or other similar manufacturing methods.

Increased productivity by using pdf tracing plug ins and P&ID symbol library plug ins.

I use DraftSight for architectural drafting/design as well as for estimating and project management. We are a small company, so I am the only user of the software. I use DraftSight for a lot of things. I do take-offs for lineal and sq ft. for material but use it as a working platform for value engineering designs and working with designers/architects. I've used it for so many graphic uses, design layouts for signage, CNC milling of accent pieces even layout tile patterns to maximize cuts. It's also my go-to for any CAD drafting for plans.

Not sure if it is faster but the program has been great for us to speed up the communication between the designers and myself.

We use DraftSight to create flat pattern layouts to cut on our laser.

I use DraftSight to design equipment that is used by the company that I consult 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.

By allowing easier development of assembly drawings and bill of materials, a shorter time is required to produce production drawings.

I use DraftSight daily when working with drawing files from clients. It also allows me to make detailed production drawings for the shop as well as CNC cut layouts. It's an indispensable tool that makes my work possible and allows me to get clear concise drawings and information into the shop quickly and efficiently. For anyone with CAD experience, it's very intuitive and you can just start using the program with almost no learning curve.

We use DraftSight to draw patterns that our cutting table uses to shape glass. It helps us create, save, and import drawings into the program our table uses keeping us from having to hand cut anything our table doesn't have pre-installed.

This program allows us to cut out a lot of waiting on patterns since our Bilco software doesn't have all of the features this has. We usually have to freehand strange radius corners and odd dimensions, which would take a long time without this program.

Productivity is not necessarily increased. It is the expense that is decreased.

We use DraftSight for the design of flat sheet metal parts to be cut using a CNC plasma system.

Without the use of DraftSight we would be cutting parts by hand, which creates larger tolerances and in most cases is more time-consuming, especially for repeat production.

DraftSight is our primary design software. It is used by engineering, job kitting, and production daily.

Our biggest challenge has been that many of our older drawings were not to scale or were hand-drawn. The more we get drawn to scale and into electronic format, the easier it has been to increase the speed of designing new products.

I use DraftSight to review construction plans, illustrate ideas to specifiers and contractors, design projects, and explain products and key components to customers. It allows me to provide quality illustrations and maintain the precision of details needed to perform work instructions in both technical and site-specific details.

Many concepts are sent to me to review by Engineers and Architects. The common turnaround time for the review is often a few days. I am able to not only review but add to their designs. I am able to insert my products, illustrate options, and return their work to them in ready-to-approve format and accelerate what they accomplish. In short, I become an easy button for them because of DraftSight.

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.

Yes we have found it a very handy piece of software that minimizes down time in design office as well as on site.

Draftsight allows me to make DXF changes on the fly without hindering production.

Easy to make changes.

I am freelance so I don't have any organization. I am using DraftSight on my own (individual user) for various civil engineering projects, mainly trackwork. The main production I do is cross-section to determine the overall thickness of the track for various areas of the project. I also use DraftSight to just visualize/control drawings.

No specific benefit in productivity.

We view, make changes to, and create 2D drawings with DraftSight.

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.

Being still in the process of learning the program, I don't think my company was able to achieve this benefit yet but I do see the potential.