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Within the Dassault Systemes family of products, DraftSight now takes its place as the 2D CAD offering. The big bonus is that DraftSight is free! 2D CAD at Dassault Systemes DraftSight is touted as an easy DWG file editor. Author fcsuper Posted on SeptemSeptemCategories Drawing, News, Product Review Tags Arron Kelly, DraftSight, Fielder Hiss, SwYm 1 Comment on Draftsight news (Part 1) DraftSight How can Dassault Systemes offer 2D CAD for free?Īs mentioned in an article earlier this week, Dassault Systemes announced the release of a new “professional-grade” 2D CAD application called DraftSight. Hopefully this time next year, Dassault Systemes will be able to brag about a massive rate of users who convert to Draftsight.

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Offering a free alternative to over-priced 2D CAD competitors might be one of the smartest things that Dassualt Systemes does in 2010. Possible impact on 2D CAD industryĭraftsight seems to hit the 2D CAD industry hard.

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Not providing some portion of Draftsight’s LISP for free may hinder development of Draftsight itself. Even some standard functions in AutoCAD started out as customer generated LISP routines. I personally would like to see some fundamental LISP functions supported without a service fee. He makes clear that the list of LISP functions will grow based on community input. LISPĪccording to Arron Kelly of Dassault Systems, hundreds of “AutoLISP” functions are already available in Draftsight’s own supported LISP.

direct telephone or online technical supportĮven though Draftsight is still in public beta release, Dassault Systemes reports that some customers have already purchased the additional services.

A yearly maintenance fee covers the following:

Dassault Systemes is taking a different path.įunding for the development of DraftSight will come in the form of paid add-ons and services. Nor is it offered under a true freemium marketing model. Though it is free, DraftSight is not offered as open source. SwYm allows Dassault Systemes to establish a strong online community backbone for Draftsight users. The users are given direct input via another technology announced by Dassault Systemes also announced in June 2010, called SwYm ( See What You Mean). Online communityĪdjoined to Draftsight is a growing online community that will participate in the application’s use, development and support. He also commented that 70% of Draftsight downloaders told others about it and “90% loved it.” With 45,000 installs to-date (mostly during the traditionally slow month of August), the adoption rate is impressive.

He stated that the free Draftsight application will allow these customers to free up investments for 3D. The fact that this application is free signals a shift in the 2D CAD industry.Īccording to Fielder Hiss of SolidWorks Corp (a Dassault Systemes subsidiarity), many customers still have the need for 2D.

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dwg 2D editor was public beta released by Dassault Systemes called Draftsight ( download it for free here).

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