DraftSight Quick Start Guide

DraftSight was designed for ease of use, with a customisable interface and all the tools that help you design faster. This article lists two ways to learn more about these tools and Draftsight features:

DraftSight Essentials

DraftSight has produced an introductory guide to explain all the essential tips to help you make the most of the tools and functionality, including:

• Viewing - navigating easily within your drawing using the scroll wheel on your mouse
• Geometry - all the tools to draw lines, polyline, circle, arc, eclipse and much more.
• ESnaps - detects and snaps to definitions points for accurate designs.
• Dimensioning - dimension your drawings faster
• DWG file format - fully supported file format, enables previous DWG files to be used in DraftSight.

Much more can be found in the Essentials ebook, which can be found and downloaded at the bottom of this page.

DraftSight Learning Path

To make it even easier in getting started, DraftSight has produced a learning path, which consists of a series of seven short videos to take you through the basics, as listed below:

1. Introduction to DraftSight
2. Managing Drawings in DraftSight
3. DraftSight Design Tools
4. DraftSight Modification Tools
5. DraftSight Dimensioning Tools
6. Blocks in DraftSight
7. DraftSight Printing

This learning path can be accessed through this link but is only available once you have purchased DraftSight and registered.