DraftSight
DraftSight is a free 2D CAD (computer-aided design or computer-aided drafting) product for engineers, architects, designers, draftspeople, students and educators. The product was developed by Dassault Systèmes and lets users create, edit and view DWG and DXF files.
DWG files contain the binary data for CAD design and it is the drawing format for many CAD programs. DWG is a long-time abbreviation for “Drawing.” A DXF, or Drawing Exchange File, is used to convert CAD files into a generic format that can be read by another CAD software product.
DraftSight competes against more than three dozen 2D or 2D/3D hybrid products on the market. General availability of DraftSight for Windows was released in February 2011 and was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times.
Features:
- Cartesian coordinate system.
- Command-line input.
- Traditional toolbars and menus.
- Wheel-mouse pan & zoom.
- Blocks & reference files.
- Layers & layer manager.
- Polygonal ViewPorts.
- ViewPort locking.
- Freeze, lock or turn off layers per ViewPort.
- Background masks for notes.
- Property manager.
- View proxy objects.
- Dynamic pan & zoom.
- Command aliases.
- Menu files.
- CTB and STB print style tables.
- SHX and TrueType fonts.
- LineStyle files.
- Hatch pattern files.
- Templates.
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