What’s New in DraftSight 2025
DraftSight 2025 unveils an impressive collection of new productivity tools and upgrades, all aimed at revolutionizing your design experience. Key highlights include STEP file import, DGN file export, advanced visibility controls, and much more.
DraftSight 2025 Features
Explore the cutting-edge features and enhancements in DraftSight 2025. The latest update enables the import of STEP files, allowing for greater design versatility with 3D models. It also introduces DGN file export, making cross-platform collaboration simpler than ever.
Experience refined control with multiple visibility elements and visual styles, plus innovative tools like the Block Structure Palette and a revamped Dimension Style Manager to streamline your design process. Unlock the full capabilities of DraftSight 2025 with these powerful new features.
What’s New in DraftSight 2024
DraftSight 2024 introduces a range of new productivity tools designed to enhance your CAD experience. Transitioning to DraftSight has never been smoother with the introduction of the page layout manager, cycling selection, and annotation monitor. Experience the seamless extraction of critical information with the all-new Data Extraction Wizard, streamlining your data-gathering process.
Upgrade to DraftSight 2024 today and unlock a new level of productivity and efficiency in your CAD workflow. Explore the latest enhancements and take advantage of these powerful tools to elevate your design process.
STEP File Import
Harness the ability to import STEP files directly into your DraftSight designs. This enhancement broadens design potential and boosts efficiency, enabling seamless integration of 3D models into your projects.
Tool Palettes
Effortlessly streamline your drawing process by consolidating frequently used commands and functions into a user-friendly interface. Ensure uniformity in your drawings with a guarantee that newly created elements adhere to pre-established standards, promoting efficiency and precision in your design workflow.
DGN Export
DraftSight 2025 empowers users to convert DWG drawings into DGN files, fostering compatibility with other CAD platforms. This enhancement promotes better collaboration across teams and industries, improving overall workflow efficiency.
Layers Palette
Enhance layer management through the Layers Palette, consolidating all commands into a single, accessible interface. The shift from a dialog box to a versatile palette not only improves the visual workspace but also boosts efficiency. Easily manage layers without interruption, allowing you to stay focused on your drawing, make adjustments, and organize your project while keeping your drawing in view.
Multiple Visibility Elements
Enhance design flexibility and customisation with support for multiple visibility elements within a single custom block. This feature allows you to toggle the visibility of specific entities, providing precise control and enabling more dynamic designs.
CATIA Drawing Import
In the 2024 release of DraftSight, collaboration with your supply chain is enhanced with added support for CATIA drawings, providing clarity and precision. Now, effortlessly import CATIA drawings directly into DraftSight and open them as DWG files without the need for manual conversion.
Menu Bar
Gain a streamlined design environment with the menu bar now available across all workspaces. This consistent, user-friendly interface sits at the top of your workspace, offering customisability and ease of access to essential tools.
Enhanced User Interface
Block Structure Palette
Simplify your design process with the Block Structure Palette. This tool provides a clear, hierarchical view of nested blocks, enabling smoother navigation and management of your drawing’s structure.
Data Link
Introducing the innovative Data Link feature in DraftSight 2024, revolutionizing your workflow. Seamlessly embed Excel files, ensuring real-time accuracy through dynamic two-way communication. Elevate your data management capabilities and encourage cross-file collaboration with this advanced feature, providing a powerful tool for enhanced productivity and efficiency.
Flatten Command
Transform 3D elements into 2D with the FLATTEN command. This tool corrects entities unintentionally placed on the z-plane and flattens 3D models onto a selected plane, making your 2D designs more cohesive and manageable.
Merge Layer
In DraftSight 2024, the introduction of the Merge Layers feature offers a robust solution to amalgamate multiple layers into a single, streamlined layer. This powerful addition simplifies intricate drawings, facilitating the organization of related entities and resulting in optimized drawings. The feature enhances efficiency and ensures precision in both 2D and 3D projects, providing a valuable tool for streamlined design workflows.
Visual Style Manager
Adjust the appearance of objects with the enhanced Visual Style Manager. This feature offers multiple display options, including wireframe, realistic, conceptual, sketch, and X-ray styles, ensuring you have the right visual format for any project.
Attach Multiple Xrefs
Streamline your workflow by attaching multiple reference files simultaneously in DraftSight 2024. Simply click “Attach Drawing,” choose your desired files, including image PDFs and DGN files. This new feature minimizes time spent managing file paths, allowing you to return to drafting swiftly and efficiently.
Dimension Space
Optimise your design layout with the DIMSPACE command, which allows for quick and precise management of the space between dimensions. This tool ensures consistent spacing, saving time and improving presentation.
Export Sheet
In DraftSight 2024, swiftly generate new drawings from existing files without sacrificing detail. Export all visible entities from the active sheet viewports in model space to create a new drawing. This feature allows you to enhance legibility and focus on specific sections, areas, or views within your drawing by exporting scaled representations of model space, title blocks, and other annotative elements, including dimensions and notes.
Table Enhancements
Take table editing to the next level with DraftSight 2025’s enhanced table tools. New capabilities include Auto Formula, the ability to match cell properties, insert blocks into cells, apply table breaks, and utilise enhanced grip functionality for more efficient adjustments.
Make Flat Snaphot Improvements
DraftSight 2024 introduces a notable enhancement to the Make Flat Snapshot command. The latest improvement allows seamless linking of foreground and hidden lines to specific layers directly from the Flat Snapshot dialog. This upgrade not only enhances organizational capabilities but also facilitates swift visibility adjustments based on precise layer associations, contributing to a more efficient and streamlined drafting experience.
Enhanced Dimension Style Manager
Redefine your approach to dimensioning with the updated Dimension Style Manager. This intuitive interface makes it easier than ever to create, edit, and manage dimension styles, keeping your options organised and readily accessible. The result is a more efficient, streamlined workflow and improved design precision.
Ribbon Based Interface for MacOS
Discover an improved Ribbon UI tailored for DraftSight on macOS. Unlike the previous menu-based interface with limited customization options, the latest Mac version offers a unified, optimized user interface. Experience consistency across platforms, ensuring macOS users enjoy the same intuitive interface as their Windows counterparts.
Reshaping Hatches
DDiscover the enhanced hatch functionality in DraftSight, offering users increased flexibility in reshaping hatches without the need for recreation. By breaking the associative link between the hatch and its original boundary, a multitude of grips are unlocked around the entire hatch. These grips empower users to perform various actions, such as stretching, vertex insertion, and converting to arcs, providing a more versatile and user-friendly experience.
