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.
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.
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.
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.
Enhanced User Interface
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
