DraftSight Reviews

Easy to use and great tool sets. My go to choice for CAD software now.

Was great when it was workingWished they could go easy on the security to users who purchased it legally. Your security shouldn't be so strict that it hinders legitimate users from using the product --- at all

I had used AutoCAD at work off and on for years. So I'm very familiar with it. Once I retired, I had needs to create drawings, but couldn't afford an AutoCAD license ($$$$). I tried many free (or cheap) drafting packages and struggled to learn them well enough to really create a good drawing. And most of the free ones were just unintuitive and difficult to use.
Then I found DraftSight and it is reasonably priced and uses the same commands as AutoCAD! I've now been using it for about 5 years and have created dozens of useful drawings for myself. Building a new house, I was able to provide several drawings to the builder for how we wanted certain rooms built. These are full engineer drawings, to scale with dimensions, etc. I also designed our pool and entire back yard with drawings that were then followed by the pool builder and sub contractors.

As an architect that uses GNU/Linux I have been struggling to find a good piece of software for CAD drawing, and only Draftsight has been able to fulfill my needs (Except by the fact that it is not possible to work with 3D).

Basic 2D software, if you use Solidworks it can be very helpful otherwise look for other options.

Excellent software. They tried hard to mimic autocad and did a great job with it.

Very mixed I like the software, but don't try to transfer the product license from one computer to another.

this was one of two 2D drafting programs that i found. i installed both of them, and actually use both of them, depending on the task at hand. draftsight is very easy to use, and i use it most of the time. the only time i use the other software is when i need some feature that draftsight just doesn't have.

DraftSight was helpful in the beginning and individual period.

Worked great for the year i paid for it, and then after the paid renewal would not accept the serial number DraftSight sent to my email. the system shut down after the end of my original subscription. program will not accept the new serial number till next year (2109) because it says i've already registered. but the program doesn't work and there is NO CUSTOMER support for the professional version even with a service number for the problem. I downloaded Autocad lt. and will not go back to Draftshight due to no customer support and a major waste of time trying to get it fix.

The learning curve is very smooth, you can almost start drawing from the beginning

I'm a 3D animator and I need a CAD program to prep 2D drawings for export into my 3D software. Nothing fancy, but effective, and preferably inexpensive. Draftsight fits the bill perfectly. I don't even mind that there's no free version anymore. It's well worth the price compared to the alternatives.

All of the Draftsight Features work well and the Software serves my design needs except for the Constant Crashing Issue ... Dassault Systems Should have remedied this issue 1 year ago when it first showed up ... The Crashing started with the 2019 version

I use this program to check plans and take basic measurements. Working in constrution, this is a must.

I use it on daily basis and it saves my time and company's money.

Modeling tools and very excellent drafting solution for the different projects like Construction, Engineering and other similar projects.

I used Draftsight to design 2D drawings. It worked great when creating 2D dimensions and annotations in the drawings, you can edit filling of closed lines, types of lines and 2D dimensions. I also created a program template (in another software) where you input some dimensions and it creates a .txt file to input in draftsight and create a drawing.

The software doesn't work. They release a version that was broken and I used the free trial of that version not knowing it was broken. I ran it on a i7, 16GB RAM and RTX30 series (powerful computer) but the application was crashing constantly. I lost unsaved work and wasted hours restarting the application, which did cost me a few hundred dollars on billable hours. I sent errors logs, which helped them to identify the issue that they claimed it is now resolved in DraftSight 2022 SP1. Technical support seems to be overseas with broken English and difficulty to read English. After 14 days, they said there is hotfix "DraftSight memory saturation hotfix" that could solve the problem. I asked for a trial license to try the fix but it was declined. Ask [SENSITIVE CONTENT] for details.
In summary, they released a broken version, I helped to fix by providing feedback and error logs. They claimed it is fixed but I can't test it.

The Below are benefits from this software.
1. User friendly for drafting and editing the drawing.
2. Less Economical for free access for 2D version.
3. Take less time for open and close the drawing.
4. Easy to operate the commands.
5, Very useful for the engineers to view the drawings and edit.

It was good till 2017. Then it become buggy. And after December 2019 it won't be free any more...

I only use DraftSight when I need to create a professional-looking, dimensioned drawing. My drawings are pretty simple...from dimensioned floor plans to 2D parts. DraftSight is perfect for me.

Generally, it's not expensive. Doesn't have big size of file. Easy to download and to install.