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With DraftSight 2019 users now have the ability to add formulas to their tables,  just like one can add in a spreadsheet program. This feature is available in  DraftSight 2019 Professional, Premium, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Use the formulas in the cells with Arithmetic Operators and Sum, Average and  Count. Sum - Used to calculate the sum of the values from the defined cells. Average - Used to calculate the average of the values from the defined  cells. Count - Used to Count the number of defined cells. A formula should always start with the equal sign (=). To start with, you need to insert a Table in to your drawing. To do so, click on  the Annotate Tab and select Table from the menu. Once you have inserted your table, you can populate it to suit your needs.  In the example below, I’ve created a small table showing Door  Types, Quantity, Price and Cost. The Cost column for door is specified in column C4 and the value for each row  in it i...

Latest DraftSight Offerings DraftSight helps users to create new drawings and access or edit existing DWG files with a strong CAD solution that meets their 2D and 3D DWG file needs. DraftSight provides a far better 2D drafting and 3D design experience for engineers, architects, and construction service providers (AEC), also as professional designers, CAD users, makers and manufacturers. This product is brought to you by Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, and provides flexible offerings for users to choose from:       DraftSight   Standard       DraftSight   Professional       DraftSight   Premium       DraftSight   Enterprise       DraftSight Enterprise   Plus DraftSight Standard Capabilities For individuals who required a straightforward 2D CAD drafting solution with a well- known interface.  Draw tools to make basic elements like lines, pol...

For the past few years DraftSight has introduced a lot of productivity enhancement tools, likewise in 2020 also they introduce automatically add & arrange dimensions. Dimension drawings automatically to save hours of time per drawing, improve consistency and reduce manual tedious tasks. Steps: 1.  Select All Entities > Right-Click > Dimension Bounding Box >   Create 2.  Type AUTODIMENSION > In the Properties Pane, select the entities for Horizontal Dimension scheme, Vertical Dimension scheme, Dimension Placements and   Origin 3.  At the bottom of the property pane > Preview and   Apply. 4.  For Auto-Arrange Dimensions, Goto Annotate Tab > Select Auto Arrange, Alias –ARRANGEDIMESIONS > Specify the spacing value in the Dimension Palette and use the Thumbwheel to adjust the spacing of the   dimensions. I   believe   that   the   above   mentioned ...

          DraftSight 2019 (Professional and Enterprise Editions) has had exciting new features and improvements that would be useful to the 2D CAD users who create Drawings (DWG) files compatible with AutoCAD. New Features in DraftSight 2019 ü  Using _VECTORIZE_IMAGE Command, a user can convert raster image in BMP, JPEG, PNG format into vectorized line entities.  This Image Tracing ability improves productivity for Raster to Vector Conversion requirements. o  This is ideally suited for architectural floor plans, logos and simple images using curves. ü Generate 2D Floor plan Drawings from 3D Data sets created in HomeByMe web-based design application (.DSHBM File format) used for home and space planning, using DSHOMEBYME Command. ü IMPORTSVG enables a user to import SVG format files into DraftSight and insert it as a block. ü Pre-defined Frames and Title Blocks are provided, according to Engineering Standard and can be used ...