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If DS wants a $300-400 payment for a permanent, site-wide license for say 5 PC-s, I'll say OK! Guys are used to it, can find their way around, we're all happy. Yes, I can afford the $99/year subscription for the most basic version, but really? 2-3 copies of it? Just for marking up shit here or there? Their work is virtually never saved back from the 'sandbox', when they are done with the part, they are done with the file.Īnyhow, with Draftsight going subscription-only as-of, and eliminating the 'free' version, I would like to find an alternative for it. They don't have to bother me for stupid little this-or-that, they can find it out on their own, everyone is happy. Let it be lathe, mill, grind, saw or whatever else, OR, even just for a setup of the next op, in case something is missing.

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If I work on them, I use the main computer with all the bells and whistles to get whatever I need.įor all other stuff though, those DWG files go into a 'sandbox' for the guys to open in Draftsight on a laptop 'machineside', so they can pull off dimensions for manual work, They are not dimensioned, toleranced or otherwise annotated, but the DWG with all possible views is made no matter what.įrom here on, for standard production parts I create a fully marked up and detailed drawing(s), whatever is needed for opsheets or shop drawings as a SOP.įor one-offs, tooling, fixturing or other 'oddball' drawings however, I try to do as little as I can and leave the DWG as-is. Modeling is done in IV, then immediately a true AutoCAD DWG is created from everything. The only thing I can see is the font is different.īut I have also tried re-doing it with the same standard font (ariel) I used before but that doesn't work either.I use Inventor and ACAD for all my CAD work. What's more is I have done a similar thing only 2 days ago (draftsight drawing with text) which did work.ĭrew boxes in draftsight - added text and then managed to get it to save and render fannying around with creating a dummy drawing like at the beginning of this post. I'm proper scratching my head now as I can't work it out. The file when reopened in draftsight is complete with text. I've tried every option (i think) within the exporting options in draftsight and it will not render the text in preview on when imported into laser cut. Except the text in the shapes is missing.Ĭlick open and it opens in lasercut with the text missing from the shapes. This time when trying to import the file in, it is there from the get go. When saving a draftsight drawing, instead of going 'save as', I click 'export'.Īs you can see from the little window, everything is there.Ĭlick browse under the destination heading to make sure it exports as a DXF. What appears to be happening is I have to make a dummy drawing and save it to be able to use the previous saved drawing.įor information purposes, maybe the above is irrelevant as I have found a way around this. Go to lasercut and click to export drawing Aĭrawing A does not show in preview window, it is just blank.Ĭlick open and it renders nothing on lasercut.ĭrawing A now shows in preview and when exported, renders fine in lasercut.

Save as DXF (call this drawing drawing A) I'm having mixed results using Draftsight.įirstly, I draw something up in draftsight.

I can work the laser and cut simple things using the lasercut software. I have an OK grasp of Draftsight and know what type of DXF I should be saving/exporting as. I'll try and keep it as short, sweet and simple as possible as it's confusing me and may not be able to explain it properly without it sounding like gobbledy gook so bare with me. Hi guys, this is going to be a long one so sit down with a cuppa.