DraftSight Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DraftSight for quick, familiar 2D drafting, utilizing familiar commands at an outstanding price.

As a previous AutoCAD user, I can highly recommend this product. I use it daily and will continue to do so.

Likelihood to Recommend

2D layouts where DWG is required to share with other organisations.

Import 2D drawings created by Fusion 360 for further manipulation & notation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>BCL uses DraftSight for product design, large scale (500m²+) site layouts and assessments in both .dwg and .dxf formats.</div><div>Product development is in both 2D and 3D.</div><div>

</div><div>It is cost effective and versatile to use without the issues of some 3D work for the more traditional user. I have used both SolidWorks and Inventor and DraftSight offers far more options without needing a bank of computers to process things, just may laptop with a RTX 2070 card.

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Likelihood to Recommend

<div>2D design work</div><div>3D design work</div><div>Large area (500m²+) analysis and assessment</div><div>

</div><div>From product design, including production drawings to lay out of large (10m x 1m footprint) layouts DraftSight is a cost effective solution providing all appropriate interfaces for BIM.</div><div>The level of detail during rendering (while it can be slow) is good for visualization and for use in installation and training materials

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use DraftSight for structural steel detailing, custom fabrication, and custom designed steel products. DraftSight is an affordable replacement for AutoCAD with LISP routine capability in "DraftSight Professional" and 3D capability if using "DraftSight Premium". The cost savings of using DraftSight has allowed us to upgrade hardware sooner than if we were paying for AutoCAD.

Likelihood to Recommend

Cost savings compared to AutoCAD is the #1 reason. If you have used AutCAD, you can easily transition to Draftsight within a single day.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We create system schematics, mounting mechanical, and product designs with it.

Drawing clear and accurate schematics is a large part of what we do to help installation of systems go quickly and correctly.

Mounting drawings have the same value, the speed and accuracy of global installations counts on our drawings to be clear and correct for each installation we support.

Likelihood to Recommend

I often recommend DraftSight to colleagues that are struggling with other CAD programs or looking to start using CAD more in their environment.

It's easy to use and the learning time is short compared to other CAD software.

Also the transition from AutoCAD to DraftSight is very quick. For those that have used AutoCAD before, the transition is very easy because many of the functions are similar and a lot of the commands are also very similar.

The startup and processing time for actions is short and speeds up the design process.

The cost impact is also significantly less than other CAD software, this helps a lot with multiple users and our operating costs.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Handle customer graphic requirements of customers accurately and efficiently as it makes it easier to manage and share graphic files. we have short leadtime in some cases to bring the graphic to the printing operations to meet customer expected delivery dates while avoiding of errors that would be costly to us and our customers.

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used AutoCAD for over 5 years. My company uses Draftsight as an alternative of AutoCAD sometimes. It is way less expensive with similar functions. That's why our company uses Draftsight instead of getting a more updated version of AutoCAD, though we have a 2007 AutoCAD. I usually convert the newer version of .dwg files to an older version through Draftsight, or sometimes edit the our production drawing in Draftsight if the changes are not too complicated.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is good that Draftsight is similar to AutoCAD, easy to pick up when start using Draftsight as an user of AutoCAD but sometimes Draftsight cannot read the font style of the text box from AutoCAD which leads to showing "?????". I have to input the words manually.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for Industrial automation design. We use it for complex wiring diagrams and industrial control panel layout.

Likelihood to Recommend

We put it through its paces with our drawings and it works fine. We do a lot of wiring diagrams and industrial control panel layout drawings, so we use a lot of its 2D capabilities. I would not use it in a multi-user environment where you have multiple designers working on one project at a time. This software makes no provisions for allowing multiple users to work at the same time on the same drawing and has no native version control. And because of their poor software control, DraftSight many times put out versions that are "crashy", which would make a lot of people very unproductive very quickly. I would look at other products for larger projects like that.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use DraftSight as a 2D drawing tool. It was purchased to replace the more expensive AutoCAD LT.

Likelihood to Recommend

I tried to like it, but the puzzling quirks have just wasted too much of my time. Going back to the more expensive and reliable AutoCAD LT.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

<div>Used to create P&amp;ID and schematics for Control Systems. Also used to plan control systems upgrades and piping details.</div><div>Drawings are accessible by other trade groups to aid in location of equipment.</div><div>Drawings are also used for contractors to bid on projects.</div><div>Saves time and money in designing control systems.

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Likelihood to Recommend

<div>Part and or schematic libraries are non-existent!</div><div>I had to create all my own P&amp;ID symbols, and then scale them to the appropriate size.</div><div>Not the easiest to create electrical schematics. It works okay, but lacking features specific to schematics.</div><div>Well suited for piping drawings and general mechanical layout.

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm the only user of DrafSight or any other design software in my company. It is used to edit old mechanical desktop files or customers' Autocad files. I would like to get it into use at a local community workshop, but for them, the price is too much for a non-profit to afford.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for users who need Autocad, but don't want to pay Autocad's exorbitant prices. It is no longer well suited for small maker spaces with limited budgets due to there being no free option. Also, DraftSight should also be part of any Solidworks package in order to make maintaining the subscription easier.