Overall Satisfaction with DraftSight
We use it for Industrial automation design. We use it for complex wiring diagrams and industrial control panel layout.
- 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.
- Text search and replace
- Layout tabs and management
- Block management
- Print management
- The price is good compared to AutoCAD, but the software is not as polished and bug free as AutoCAD
AutoCAD. DraftSight is a better CAD software that can handle our CAD needs at a very reasonable price. These CAD products are either very limited or crippled, or are very expensive.
Do you think DraftSight delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with DraftSight's feature set?
Yes
Did DraftSight live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of DraftSight go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy DraftSight again?
Yes
Using DraftSight
2 - Engineering
1 - Time to play with it to get it to work.
- 2D line drawings
- 2D layout drawings
- Text Bill of Materials
- Use layouts for different sheets in a drawing
Using DraftSight
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Feel confident using | Unnecessarily complex Not well integrated Inconsistent Slow to learn Cumbersome Lots to learn |
- Printing has improved
- Text search and replace is barely useable
- Moving between Layouts is terrible
- Choosing text for editing. It does not clear the last texted that you edited and gets messed up with the next operation like MOVE or COPY.
- I don't want HomeByMe or 3D CONTENTCENTRAL OR Design Resources up all the time but I can't shut it off permantly.
- The Options Menu section is very hard to find things in
- The Print Configuration Manager does not work well when you are sharing CAD drawings among different users. It doesn't remember the settings.
- If all your layouts need the same print configuration and you have a lot of them, the Print Configuration screen makes it very hard and clunky to configure that.