DraftSight Tutorials
All of our text and video DraftSight tutorials. If you are new to DraftSight, start with the first two articles.
ESnap
ESnap stands for Entity Snap. According to DraftSight’s help file, it snaps to “geometrically significant points on drawing entities, for exa...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:04 AM
ETrack
ETrack stands for Entity Tracking. ETrack is a tool that helps you draw in relationship to other entities by displaying temporary guides an...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:10 AM
Delete
The delete tool is very straight forward. Specify the entities you wish to delete and click the delete tool to remove them from your drawing....
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:11 AM
Copy
The copy tool copies entities. When pasting entities, relative Cartesian coordinates can be useful. For example, @5,-1 will place a copy 5 uni...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:13 AM
Mirror
The mirror command creates a mirror image of an entity, or we could say that the mirror tool “flips an entity over”. This will be useful if y...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:14 AM
Move
This straightforward tool moves entities from one point to another. After executing the move command, you need to specify a from point and a de...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:15 AM
Offset
The offset tool creates a parallel entity. Below are examples of offsets of a circle, square and line:
With circles, el...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:22 AM
Rotate
The rotate tool rotates entities around a pivot point. First you will be asked to specify a pivot point, which can be any point. If you spec...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:23 AM
Scale
The scale tool changes the size of entities. You can use this tool to convert from inches to millimeters.
First, a base point must be ...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:24 AM
Chamfer
The chamfer tool is used to make beveled corners. In our context, it can be used to make vertical chamfers on the corners of counter tops. ...
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015 at 6:26 AM