I've created this website to provide current information about SolidWorks from a variety of contributors. I've worked to utilize the SolidWorks' user environment to simplify drafting and design activities for 20+ engineers. Since 1998, I've been used SolidWorks non-stop. I authored several custom functions, one of which was published in the March 1997 issue of Cadalyst Magazine. I utilized AutoLISP and many other AutoCAD customization features to streamline drafting activities for 6+ drafters and designers. I will review DraftSight and in future articles.Īs a drafter, mechanical designer and CAD engineer, I've been in the mechanical design field since 1991.įor the first 8 years of my career, I was an AutoCAD professional. Does Dassault Systemes really intend to leave SolidWorks users out on a limb if 2D Editor is ever cancelled? Review of DraftSight Though 2D Editor is not often a selling point, it is part of what we pay for in the form of subscription and original purchase. If DraftSight eventually replaces 2D Editor, SolidWorks customers do not seem to have a path to use their SolidWorks subscription to gain support and the API extension for DraftSight. We are unlimited in our use of its API (limited that it may be). We get support for 2D Editor via our VAR. One concern I have is for SolidWorks users who use SolidWorks 2D Editor (formerly DWGEditor). Kelly stated, users need to have the API extension to use LISP file too. I asked, does a user need to purchase the API package to use LISP, or do they just need it to develop LISP or C++ routines? DraftSight also plans to charge for the API extension. Larger customers will have a network license. For a yearly maintenance fee, users will be able to have direct telephone or online technical support. Users will make suggestions and prioritize enhancements, similar to SolidWorks Brainstorm.įunding for the development of DraftSight will come in the form of paid add-ons and services.
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According to Aaron Kelly, Dassault Systemes plans to “leverage the community to build a better product.” They are going to rely on the community to determine how to develop DraftSight. It will have community support, question and answers, voting on answers, blog, videos, knowledge base, etc. This new community is based on a new technology called SwYm (“ See what you mean”). The DraftSight application is being closely tied to the community. What is Dassault’s plan to kept this product vital? His answer was complex.ĭassault Systemes made a dual product release announcement that involves DraftSight.
#Draftsight 2015 free
Director, DraftSight, I expressed my concern that DraftSight may be yet another application that starts off strong as free but then eventual fizzles out and is forgotten. Dassault Systemes is taking a different path. Nor is it offered under a true freemium marketing model. Though it is free, DraftSight is not offered as open source. But customers are welcome to use DraftSight if they prefer.
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The SolidWorks 2D Editor isn’t going anywhere for the time being. However, according to Matthew West of SolidWorks Corp in a recent tweet,
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For non-SolidWorks users, it will effectively replace the old DWGEditor. Within the Dassault Systemes family of products, DraftSight now takes its place as the 2D CAD offering. The big bonus is that DraftSight is free! 2D CAD at Dassault Systemes DraftSight is touted as an easy DWG file editor. The 3DDashboard is your portal to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.As mentioned in an article earlier this week, Dassault Systemes announced the release of a new “professional-grade” 2D CAD application called DraftSight. When you open a model from a Collaborative Space, the model and all of its references are downloaded to your computer. Opening Files from a Collaborative Space.
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After you modify the file, you save it on your computer, save it to a Collaboration Space, and unlock it so that others can work on that new version. When you lock a file, other users are prevented from saving a different version to the Collaborative Space. When you save a model and its components from your computer to a Collaborative Space, you are uploading the files to the cloud. Icons show the status of each assembly, subassembly, part, drawing and other model components. Use the pane to manage the model status in SOLIDWORKS and DraftSight. The 3D EXPERIENCE Platform pane shows the active model content.