Free CAD program for your DWG files. With DraftSight, you can easily create professional CAD drawings. With the DWG format as its primary drawing file format and support for DWG and DXF files up to version 2010, DraftSight provides compatibility and exchange abilities with a wide range of graphics and construction program all over the world.

DraftSight can be used to:
1. Create 2D drawings
2. Update and maintain.dwg and .dxf files
3. Create PDF files
4. Exchange files with companies who either provide or require data saved in either.dwg or
5. .dxf file formats.

Based on an advanced architecture, DraftSight has a small footprint, should take a few minutes to download, and supports Microsoft Windows XP , Windows Vista , Windows 7 (General Release), Mac and Linux ** (Mac and Linux currently in Beta).

DraftSight Features:
User Environment & Features
1. Cartesian coordinate system
2. Command line input
3. Traditional toolbars and menus
4. Wheel-mouse pan & zoom
5. Blocks & reference files
6. Layers & layer manager
7. Polygonal ViewPorts
8. ViewPort locking
9. Freeze, lock or turn off layers per ViewPort
10. Background masks for notes
11. Property manager
12. View proxy objects
13. Dynamic pan & zoom
14. Command aliases
15. Menu files
16. CTB and STB print style tables
17. SHX and TTF fonts
18. LineStyle files
19. Hatch pattern files
20. Templates

Interoperability
1. Read and write support for DWG/DXF files
2. Save DWG/DXF files back to previous versions
3. Create binary or ASCII DXF files
4. Attach image files (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, & .tiff)
5. Attach external reference drawings
6. Print to file (.plt, .jpg, .pdf, .png, & .svg)
7. Save as .wmf, .jpeg, .pdf, .png, .sld, .svg, .tif, & .stl file formats
8. Multi-page PDF creation
9. Publish to eDrawings or Drawings Now

Productivity Enhancers
1. Consolidated options dialog
2. Enhanced, easy to read, command prompts
3. Home palette
4. Smart calculator
5. Quick print
6. Context sensitive help

Setup and Administration
1. Support for Windows , Mac & Linux operating systems
2. Multi-language character set support including Unicode fonts
3. Customizable interface: command aliases, double-click actions, menus, right-click menus, shortcut keys, toolbars, etc.
4. Quick and free to download
5. Fast "one-click" installation

Entities
1. Arcs, circles, & lines
2. Notes & SimpleNotes
3. Tables
4. Blocks and BlockAttributes
5. Ellipses & elliptical arcs
6. RichLines, PolyLines, 3D PolyLines, & Splines
7. Points & rings
8. Hyperlinks
9. ViewPorts
10. Masks & region
11. ISO, ANSI & Traditional Hatch patterns
12. Solid & gradient Fill
13. Dimensions: Arc length, radius, diameter, baseline, linear, ordinate, etc.
14. Tolerances, Leaders & CenterMarks

Drafting Tools
1. Snap & Grid
2. Chamfer & Fillet
3. Tracking guides & Polar guides
4. Get area, distance, or coordinates information
5. Double-click editing
6. Undo/Redo
7. EntityGrips, EntitySnaps, Entity
8. InfiniteLines, Rays & Reference Points
9. Select entities using filters, SmartSelect, or by window, crossing window, crossline, polygonal window, etc.

Drawing Setup Tools
1. Customizable coordinate system
2. RichLine styles
3. Layer manager
4. Table styles
5. Points format
6. Text Styles
7. Unit system
8. Multiple layout
9. Dimension styles
10. Named page layouts

Edit Tools
1. Move, scale & rotate
2. Stretch & change length
3. Mirror, copy, offset and pattern copy
4. Trim & extend
5. Split & weld
6. Edit blocks in-place or isolate for edit
7. Open reference drawings from within the base drawing
8. Clip references and images
9. Modify Hatch and fill pattern, origin, etc
10. Edit note properties: direction, justification, line spacing, text height, TextStyle, etc.

The decision to create the DraftSight community and the product is based on a comprehensive series of customer interviews that showed an overwhelming need for the capability to share DWG files. The community created through DraftSight.com, and the immediate availability of DraftSight, the 2D CAD system, represents a natural next step in our efforts to drive user-based knowledge sharing and high-quality service that will provide real value to our customers and all CAD users around the globe.

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this cad software.