Cost-effective drafting solution
We use DraftSight to create flat pattern layouts to cut on our laser.
Starting at $249 per year
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What is DraftSight?
DraftSight is a 2D and 3D CAD solution for architects, engineers and construction service providers, as well as professional CAD users, designers, educators and hobbyists. DraftSight lets users create, edit, view, and markup any kind of 2D and 3D DWG…
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Pricing
DraftSight Professional
$249
On Premise
per year
DraftSight Premium (3D)
$549
On Premise
per year
DraftSight Enterprise
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Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
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DraftSight Demo Video
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3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight Demo
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What is DraftSight?
DraftSight is a 2D and 3D CAD solution for architects, engineers and construction service providers, as well as professional CAD users, designers, educators and hobbyists. DraftSight lets users create, edit, view, and markup any kind of 2D and 3D DWG file with greater ease, speed, and efficiency. Its familiar user interface helps to facilitate a quick transition from other CAD applications.
DraftSight Offerings:
DraftSight Offerings:
- DraftSight Professional: the advanced 2D CAD drafting solution with time-saving functionalities and an API to help bring designs to life quickly and easily. Ideal for companies, individuals and designers.
- DraftSight Premium (3D): a robust 2D drafting and 3D design experience with full 3D capabilities and constraints features to help meet any drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, laser cutting and 3D printing needs. Created for individuals, designers, companies, manufacturers and makers.
- DraftSight Enterprise and Enterprise Plus: a comprehensive 2D drafting and 3D design solution created to meet various drafting, modeling, prototyping, manufacturing, laser cutting, and 3D printing requirements. Designed for large organizations with many users or multiple sites.
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DraftSight: A Better 2D Drafting and 3D Design Experience
DraftSight Integrations
- GEOVIA Surpac
- SOLIDWORKS PDM
- SOLIDWORKS Electrical
- 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
DraftSight Competitors
DraftSight Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Turkish, Russian |
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Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of DraftSight are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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December 01, 2023
Cost-effective drafting solution
- It's easy to use.
- Interface is customizable.
- Price is reasonable.
- I would like to see it interact with inventor files better, but that is more of an inventor issue.
November 22, 2023
DraftSight is cheaper and as efficient as AutoCAD in 2D.
November 22, 2023
DraftSight: good at sharing with others
- Handles DWG files very well.
- It is a robust program and handles large files better than some other similar programs I've used.
- It is more responsive than other similar programs I've used.
- I like the two-key and multilple-key command structure. It is intuitive.
- It has some great tools for drawing bolts and other types of fasteners.
- Recognizes and uses 3D Connexion controller.
- Interface could be optimized to provide more screen space for drawings.
- Zooming in and out using the mouse wheel could be improved.
- Inserting viewports and setting them up could be made easier and more intuitive
October 09, 2023
DraftSight! You could be so much better if.....
- Reads and writes Autocad files without a problem.
- Flexible user interface with lots of options.
- Good tools for 2D design.
- The text search and replace is very crude and barely works. Needs a major revamping.
- The layout tabs are very clunky and hard to use. Needs to be fixed.
- DraftSight will fix a problem in one version, mess it up in another version, then fix it again later on. And so forth, and so forth, and so forth. Very poor software update control.
June 07, 2023
DraftSight? Good program but you are on your own, especially at license renewal time when it locks up.
- Provides 2.5 dimensional drafting at a fraction of the cost of AutoCAD.
- No learning curve when switching from AutoCAD.
- Annual license renewal system is still broken; has been broken for years.
- Support for the program is now totally worthless.
- Subscribers are harassed for a solid month before their anniversary date, even if they are set up to automatically renew.
June 01, 2023
DraftSight Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- handling graphic files
- share graphic files
- send graphic files
- identify issues
- optimizing press approval of new products
May 31, 2023
It works good!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
May 19, 2023
DraftSight Professional vs AutoCAD Full version
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Ease of use.
- Very complete.
- Very reliable automatic functions.
- For certain needs, expensive.
December 09, 2022
Overpowered
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
October 07, 2022
Draftsight is amazing!
September 27, 2022
Cheap software
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Imports legacy CAD data
- In my opinion, customer support is too time-consuming. When you do get an answer half the time it is related to your question which is pretty good, but who has 16 hours to wait for that?
- Interface could be far more stable
- Snap settings turn themselves off
- Dimension in "paper space" may or may not provide accurate dimensions
- Same line weight issues as AutoCAD. by block, by layer, has little effect. Printing line weights can be a guessing game.
- Block access is fixed to one location, instead of last used location.
- Extreme care is required when mouse picking. Make sure you are not picking in air, instead of the end of a line that is a millimeter away. Even with snap on.
August 02, 2022
Using DraftSight in chemical engineering
- It allows me to quickly fit equipment into tight spaces because it is very flexible.
- It is easy to learn and use, and its numerous features give me many options in the design phase.
- It provides me with a single tool to design everything from layouts to instrumentation drawings.
- It enables independent small users like me to wield the design capability of a large enterprise.
- It would be more efficient to have direct access to Help Support, although the Help feature and Forum can often answer questions.
- For instrumentation, an embedded symbol library would be valuable. I currently have to create my own library.
- For layouts, an embedded equipment symbol library (for example, pumps, motors) would be helpful.
July 08, 2022
No Regrets
- Universal compatibility with other programs
- Ability to insert parts from individual manufactures
- The tool box feature is a definite plus
- It has minor problems when saving drawings - Crashes if you initiate certain commands while program is saving a drawing
June 24, 2022
Great value, even with few bugs
- Very similar to AutoCAD
- Professional is a very powerful program
- Power trim is great for cleaning up drawings
- There should be technical support for all users. It is very frustrating to have failures occur over and over with no help.
- Training videos could be more detailed.
- Image Tracer is a nice addition, but I have not been able to figure it out.
June 20, 2022
Great features and functionality at a great price!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Layer Management
- Contextual application (Right mouse click)
- Print layout
- Home by Me window always pops-up on startup! Annoying in my opinion
- Why open a No-Name_0 window? I am almost always going to open a file!
- Slow to open
June 20, 2022
DraftSight Professional with LISP capability
- Integrates AutoCAD drawings into DraftSight seamlessly.
- Capable of using LISP routines that I have used for years.
- Opens DWG files from files sent to us that we would not normally be able to open.
- 3D capability is lacking.
- Stability can be an issue sometimes
- Newest version doesnt run LISP as well as previous versions did
May 31, 2022
DraftSight Review
- Cost-effective
- Can use and save documents to a usable DWG format
- New versions of DraftSight change (eliminate) features that I like to use.
- Customer Service is non-existent so issues cannot be resolved.
- Blogs are not a solution to customer service questions.
May 20, 2022
Great Product
- Opens newer .dwg and .dxf files.
- Easy to use menus.
- Similar to AutoCAD style for easy transition.
- Features.
May 10, 2022
Awesome experience; CAD at its best
- User friendly
- Clear user interface (GUI)
- 3D in the basic form
April 28, 2022
Easy to Share
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Increases Productivity
- Easy modification and change of design
- Task bar emblems could be larger
- Better printing control for older plotters
February 28, 2022
Stay away - It crashes all the time and you will lose work
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Crashes
- Doesn't work
- N/A
- Technical support
- Diagnostic
- Customer support
December 07, 2021
DraftSight is the best 2D CAD
- Architectural projects
- Compatibility with other CADs
- Friendly interface
- easiest PDF export in scale and formats
- I don't like the home panel on the left that pops up every time I start the software
- Works with other .dwg files - AutoCAD
- Shortcuts - I seldom even touch the keyboard for anything besides numbers
- Simple to learn
- Mouse gestures
- CUSTOMER SUPPORT !!!!!!!
- Video learning for EVERYTHING .
- When I search for a command, more generic terms - i.e. - you call it hatch, but I may be asking for cross-hatching or hatching and nothing shows up.
December 01, 2021
Shipbuilders
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Easy to install.
- Printing and making pdf views.
- Opens many formats of drawings and easy to scan around on the drawing.
- We like to be able to do some simple structural analysis with add-on programs and we are not aware of any that work with DraftSight.