5/10/2023 0 Comments Draftsight review![]() Is solidworks even meant for 2D at all? If not thats fine just need to know if I'm pounding a round peg through a square hole. However, if we want to get that into parts - I make the whole thing in 3D - individual parts - make drawings for each part - compile that into a binder. Do a sheet with multiple layers and then split that into individual sheets? frustrating.įor instance - my work flow is we get a plan with a footprint and a general footprint of a float - then from that foot print I gotta lay out timbers (which is much faster in 2D). ![]() Trying to a sketch pattern and then edit that pattern after? owch. So I've been doing 2D in solidworks and it sure doesn't seem like its very good for that. So naturally my ol' man wants to do just 2D. However, 3D takes me a bit of time to do a full giant piece. He was sold on Solidworks - and if I want to make a full 3d rendition of a marina - it works awesome - make parts from those 3D pieces (just long boxes with holes) - awesome, great, love it, perfect. I do a bit of Cad for my father doing Dock design. I like it a lot, give it a spin, it will only cost you three minutes.Kinda rambly, apologies if it makes zero sense just ignore if so haha. It is pretty exciting, what a lot of us have been looking forward to for a long time. The Linux community support so far has been very strong, in the first week since DraftSight’s release there have been on average a little over 1,000 downloads a day. Who here isn’t a fan of the Open Design Alliance? (You can also export. But look, look!ĭraftSight has a powerful CAD interface, but can you share your files with others? Check out these SaveAs options: Most Linux programs have a barely adequate help file -I usually find Google more helpful. I was pleasantly surprised by the help file. I did miss not having an API, however this is available if you buy the premium pack. ![]() I found was that you could not change the number of columns/rows in an existing table, however this issue has been reported and a fix is expected soon. I mostly tested blocks, XREFs, layers, dimensions, tables – these are the features I usually find lacking in 2D software. The DraftSight system requirements are very modest (1 GHz x86 processor, 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended)) so my 3 GHz machine with 3 GB of RAM had no problem opening the largest DWG files I could find. I was secretly hoping it would install in my “Office” application list, but instead it went into the graphics area: Total installation time was less than three minutes. ![]() I double clicked on the download and the Ubuntu Software Center automatically took care of the rest. The installation on my Ubuntu 10.10 system was cake. The b is rather small, 68.8 Mb (I was surprised it was bigger than the Windows install – 55.5 Mb). (Who remembers trig anyway?) Now, thanks to DraftSight, I have DWG support in an interface nearly the same that I have been using since high school…all on my computer in my kitchen! QCad is a nice application, but since it doesn’t have DWG support I must admit I never used it for much more than helping my kids with their geometry homework. Until DraftSight, I mostly used “QCad” for my CAD editing software on Linux. You know I was quite excited when DraftSight for Linux was finally release last week. Free software than runs on a free operating system.
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