DraftSight the Perfect Drafting Solution for Small Companies
May 06, 2021
DraftSight the Perfect Drafting Solution for Small Companies
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Paid
Overall Satisfaction with DraftSight
DraftSight is used primarily by me and two other engineers. Our geotechnical engineers, often receive ACAD files and we use DraftSight to extract data from those files as well as to create boring location drawings. The Forensic engineer uses DraftSight to generate drawings for the damage assessment and repairs of various structures when the assessment is complete. Our materials testing group often receives drawings in ACAD that need to be converted to PDF for the field technicians to review of their tablets, DraftSight handles this for us.
- We are a small firm with few needs for drafting tools, and not a lot of budget for it. The power to work with and create drawings that interface seamlessly with our clients (government, Architects and large civil engineering firms) Autodesk products makes DraftSight the cost effective solution for us.
- I trained on Autodesk products (AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor) at my previous company, the transition to DraftSight was seamless for me.
- When we do get a larger scale project I am able to subcontract drafting work to individuals who use either DraftSight or Autodesk products thus providing me a larger drafting community from which to chose qualified personnel.
- I am sure that if I used DraftSight on a daily basis I would find some things that could be improved but for my uses, it simply is the best most cost effective solution.
- It is hard to put an actual ROI on our use of DraftSight, when I came to this company 3 years ago we outsourced all of our CAD work even if it was just convert this ACAD drawing to PDF. DraftSight paid for itself the first time I performed such a conversion, especially since it was free back then. Even if we had the most expensive version, it still would have paid for itself in two such conversions.
- When I arrived at my current position 3 years ago drawings for reports were being hand done or sent out to a CAD subcontractor. The time and money saved on the first report we did In house made the purchase of DraftSight worth while.
- There has been no negative impact from the purchase and implementation of DraftSight only positive.
- Several of our clients have commented that we do "large firm work" for such a small firm and I believe DraftSight is part of the reason for their perception of us.
DraftSight blows AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT away with cost effective solutions and ease of use.
Three D modeling (SOLIDWORKS and Inventor) are way more complicated than our needs and the cost is way out of our budget.
Three D modeling (SOLIDWORKS and Inventor) are way more complicated than our needs and the cost is way out of our budget.
Evaluating DraftSight and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
Price was the main deciding factor when we first started with DraftSight. The owners were not sure we even needed a CAD software. For those of us who use it the fact that we have the features and usability of DraftSight for the price that the company owners are happy with makes us happy.
I would not change it at all. I looked at 5 different software options for our CAD needs and DraftSight was the clear choice for the money no one beats it.