{"id":4179,"date":"2016-04-05T10:23:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T09:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2016-04-05T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T09:23:48","slug":"whats-new-in-draftsight-2016-custom-user-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/04\/whats-new-in-draftsight-2016-custom-user-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in DraftSight 2016: Custom User Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over 8 million downloads worldwide, DraftSight is a powerful, professional-grade\u00a02D CAD product providing architects, engineers, and construction service providers (AEC), as well as professional CAD users with a robust and reliable design experience. Even students, educators and CAD hobbyists use DraftSight to create, edit and view their native DWG files.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zoomLink cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/sample_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone colorbox-10904\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/sample_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will find a user-friendly interface in DraftSight with no learning curve if you\u2019re transitioning from other popular 2D CAD software tools. Whether you use DraftSight, DraftSight Professional or DraftSight Enterprise, you can start designing and documenting right away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Custom User Interface\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Boost your productivity<\/p>\n<p>Create your own workspaces in addition to the ones we created for you.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZsPv6NN3ldQ?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At The drop down menu in the top left corner offers two work spaces; the first is the \u201cClassic Default\u201d workspace and the second is the ribbon based \u201cDrafting and Annotation\u201d work space. From the \u201cManage\u201d tab, click on the \u201cInterface\u201d too for customizations. In this dialog box, choose \u201cUI Profiles\u201d to create your own custom work space.<\/p>\n<p>The new DraftSight 2016 has many great improvements that are for ALL Free, Professional and Enterprise level users.\u00a0The new enhancements improve user efficiency and productivity when creating a new project or editing an existing drawing. In addition, this new release has been improved for faster performance especially when zooming, regenerating and panning in the model.\u00a0This video provides a quick overview of the new DraftSight 2016 features and commands in 4 major areas:<br \/>\n\u2013 User Interface<br \/>\n\u2013 Visibility &amp; Selection<br \/>\n\u2013 Layer Management<br \/>\n\u2013 Annotation<br \/>\nDraftSight 2016 features faster performance, advanced customization and annotation capabilities to increase your productivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/products\/free-software\/draftsight-request\" target=\"_blank\">Download DraftSight 2016 today<\/a> and see how you can be more successful in creating any kind of 2D drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/04\/draftsight-2016-custom-user-interface.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 8 million downloads worldwide, DraftSight is a powerful, professional-grade\u00a02D CAD product providing architects, engineers, and construction service providers (AEC), as well as professional CAD users with a robust&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-draftsight","tag-draftsight"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}