DraftSight Review
May 08, 2020

DraftSight Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Paid

Overall Satisfaction with DraftSight

DraftSight is used for individual use of CAD operation of steel structural design in my company. I am a member of the sales engineering dept. My main task is to propose structural design to minimize fabrication and transportation cost of the buildings. When I describe steel structural plans, I make some blueprints using DraftSight.

Pros

  • DraftSight is completely compatible with AutoCAD commands
  • DraftSight is extremely light. I'm so satisfied by its good response.
  • Good cost performance--you can use 3D CAD operation at such a low price.

Cons

  • I have some difficulty in printing some blueprints using DraftSight. There is some difference between it and AutoCAD.
  • There are few FAQs--when I google commands for DraftSight, FAQs for AutoCAD always hit
  • I have some difficulty with snap points. I set some snap utilities in the menu, but sometimes this customized setting vanishes when I do CAD operation. I have to recover it each time it vanishes.
  • Positive: introducing costs are reasonable, so one can easily allocate DraftSight to its team members.
  • Positive: construction cost is determined in design process. This process is always early in overall construction process. This software can easily describe ideas on 2D\3D blueprints.
  • Positive: my tasks is often to review and fix some blueprint made by someone else. In such an process, DraftSight can easily access files made by others.
I chose DraftSight because it gives me control of 2D and 3D CAD and is so cheap. You can do these things with AutoCAD too, but if you want to do 3D, you have to buy a very expensive software version. When you want to do it with multiple people, the low purchase cost is very attractive.

I think for constructional use, DraftSight is well suited, especially in collaboration with AutoCAD. In my job, ideas are described by 2D blueprint made by various CAD software. In such an environment, DraftSight is well suited. On the contrary, when I use some 3D CAD files, software crashes more often than AutoCAD. In this viewpoint, I think it is less appropriate for complicated 3D CAD operation.

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