DraftSight 2016 has many great improvements for Free, Professional and Enterprise level users. These 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.
Download DraftSight 2016 at www.DraftSight.com/Download.
Learn more and watch videos of the new features of this release at www.DraftSight2016.com.
2016 SP0 Release Notes:
Operating Systems: DraftSight 2016 now supports:
- Windows 10, 64bit.
- Mac v10.11 El Capitan.
- Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
System Requirements: Click here to download the DraftSight 2016 SP0 System Requirements.
New Features:
- Ribbon Based User Interface provides the following UI elements:
- Application Button / Application Menu
- Quick Access Toolbar
- Ribbon Tabs
- Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon Customization. Creates and modifies quick access toolbars, ribbon tabs and panels.
- Properties palette. Supports collapsing and expanding of property groups.
- Multiline BlockAttributes are supported by the MakeBlockAttribute, EditBlockAttribute, and EditAnnotation commands. The Multiline BlockAttribute Formatting pop-up toolbar helps you edit and format multiline BlockAttributes.
New Commands:
- DrawingTabs. Shows drawing tabs at the top of the drawing window area.
- HideDrawingTabs. Hides drawing tabs at the top of the drawing window area.
- LayerState. Saves, restores, and manages configurations of layer properties and states.
- HideEntities. Hides selected entities.
- IsolateEntities. Isolates selected entities by hiding all other entities.
- UnisolateEntities. Shows entities that were hidden with the IsolateEntities or HideEntities commands.
- SelectMatching. Selects drawing entities of the same type and with shared properties for subsequent commands.
- New commands for Annotation Scaling:
- AnnEntityScale. Adds and removes annotation scales for specified annotative entities (dialog box variant).
- AnnEntityScale. Adds and removes annotation scales for specified annotative entities (command window variant).
- AnnEntityScaleAdd. Updates annotative entities to support the drawing's active annotation scale.
- AnnEntityScaleRemove. Updates annotative entities to remove the drawing's active annotation scale from the entities' annotation scales.
- AnnReset. Resets all scale representations of specified annotative entities to their original positions.
- AnnUpdate. Updates existing annotative entities to match updated TextStyle or DimensionStyle settings.
Resolved Issues:
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Description |
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502012 |
Allows stretching splines or ellipse arc objects using partial selection. |
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549143 |
Adds "Layer States Manager" functionality. |
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561080 |
Fixes the issue where an Excel file get chopped when Inserted into a drawing. |
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611145 |
Improves ExtractBlockAttribute so that template works on other 2D CAD products as well as on DraftSight. |
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611519 |
Improves ExtractBlockAttribute to resolve the 'Invalid field Specification' error in the command line. |
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619576 |
Improves user defined variable with (setenv) to become persistant between DraftSight sessions. |
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635870 |
Improves the quality of Print Preview. |
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640120 |
Improves ExtractBlockAttribute so that if the value is numerical, the output value will be single quote. |
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644090 |
Improves Smartopen command to be compatible with Close and Exit commands in a script. |
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655754 |
Adds to ability to control the number of cells when inserting Microsoft Excel sheet. |
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661875 |
Adds the ability to increase drawing preview size in Windows Explorer preview pane. |
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738199 |
Improves DraftSight to reflect changes when the linked OLE objects got updated (Excel). |
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789426 |
Improves BlockAttributeOutput to provide x and y coordinates position of the block. |
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827791 |
Reduces the frequency of the DraftSight Professional end of Trial pop out dialog box when launching the Free Version. |
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855717 |
Improves the mouse lagging or poor performance issues in Linux. |
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861294 |
Improves the memory allocation of DraftSight. |
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871936 |
Fixes the issue where embedded images may occasionally appear blank. |
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879990 |
Adds an option to clear or clean recent files historic from Open > File Menu drop down. |
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886878 |
Improves the Named Views set in Model mode to be also available in Sheet mode. |
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900331 |
Corrects the wrong hole dimension symbols in Windows 8 platform. |
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905963 |
Corrects the wrong or inconsistent user-defined shortcut key assignment for ‘Recent Documents’. |
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911975 |
Corrects some typos and inaccurate translation in German Help files. |
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913167 |
Corrects the Help file to document more accurately the FullScreen command. |
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919785 |
Fixes the issue where Macro records the positions of rectangle and polygon as zero when running by specific language mode. |
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920863 |
Fixes the issue of Timeout setting not honored under Options > System Options > General > License. |
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925717 |
Improves Draw Compare tool to be able to compare two drawings of the same name. |
