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| Essential Tools | Draftsight Professional / Enterprise | Draftsight Premium / Enterprise Plus | Draftsight Mechanical | 3DEXPERIENCE Draftsight Professional | 3DEXPERIENCE Draftsight Premium | 3DEXPERIENCE Draftsight Mechanical |
| Draw Tools | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| (Line, Polyline, Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Table, | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Hatch, Cloud, Block, and more) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Modify Tools | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| (Move, Copy, Rotate, Array, Scale, Trim, | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Chamfer, Split, and more) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Layer, Block, Group, Print | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Pasting to Active Layer | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Layer Preview | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Spline Editing With Fit and | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Control Vertices | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Hatch Fill and Gradient | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Discarding Duplicate Entities | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Quick Modify | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| (Copy, Move, Rotate, Scale) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Centerlines View | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Navigator | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Table Tools | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| (Autofill, Broken Tables, Table Edits) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Lasso | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Dimension Space | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Drawing Unit Change | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Show/Hide Menu Bar | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Productivity Tools | ||||||
| Toolbox | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| (BOM, Revision Table, Hardware, Holes, | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Welding/Surface/Finish Symbols, and more) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Design Resources Library | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Batch Printing | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Tool Palettes | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Merge Layer | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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| Pattern (Linear, Polar, Path) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Automatic Dimensioning and Dimension Arrangement | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Dimension Palette | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Mass Properties Calculations | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Quick Input Methods | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Using Formulas in Table Cells | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Viewport Layer Freezing | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Block Attribute Manager | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| G-Code Generator | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Power Trim | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Image Tracer | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Pack and Go | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Publish to DWF Format | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Visual Style Manager | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Flatten | • | • | • | • | ||
| Block Structure Palette | • | • | • | • | ||
| Multiple Visibility Elements | • | • | • | • | ||
| Dimensional Constraints for Blocks | • | • | • | • | ||
| Create and Edit Custom Blocks | • | • | • | • | ||
| Sheet Set Manager | • | • | • | • | ||
| 3D Tools | • | • | • | • | ||
| (3D Modeling, 3D Drafting, Solid Editing, | • | • | • | • | ||
| Mesh, and more) | • | • | • | • | ||
| Constraints | • | • | • | • | ||
| Mechanical Tools | ||||||
| Open, Edit, and Create Mechanical | • | • | ||||
| DWG Files | • | • | ||||
| Create and Edit Bill of Materials | • | • | ||||
| (BOM) | • | • | ||||
| Edit and Create Part References | • | • | ||||
| Insert Part Reference Balloon | • | • | ||||
| Annotations | • | • | ||||
| Automatically Apply Part References | • | • | ||||
| to Toolbox Hardware | • | • | ||||
| Support for Drafting Standards (ANSI, ISO, DIN, JIS, and BSI) | • | • | ||||
| BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) | ||||||
| Import IFC and RVT Files with | • | • | ||||
| BIM Navigator | • | • | ||||
| Apply BIM Filters with BIM Navigator | • | • | ||||
| Map Hatches to BIM Materials | • | • | ||||
| View BIM Entity Properties Palette | • | • | ||||
| BIM Drawing Annotation Management, | • | • | ||||
| Dimensioning, and Publishing | • | • | ||||
| BIM Data Extraction | • | • | ||||
| INTEROPERABILITY TOOLS | ||||||
| Dynamic Block Viewing | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Dynamic Block Library (Ready-to-Use) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Auto/Visual LISP Import | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| 3DEXPERIENCE® Marketplace | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Integration | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| HomeByMe Integration | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Connectors for 3DEXPERIENCE, DELMIA®, SOLIDWORKS® Electrical, PDM | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| PDF Underlay | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| DGN Import/Convert and Underlay | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| CATIA® Drawing Import | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| PDF Import | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Dynamic Block Editing | • | • | • | • | ||
| Data Link – Excel to DraftSight™ | • | • | • | • | ||
| Export DWG to DGN | • | • | • | • | ||
| STEP Import | • | • | • | • | ||
| CUSTOMIZATION TOOLS | ||||||
| Application Programming Interface (API) | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Dark Mode | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| Macro Recording | • | • | • | • | • | • |
| SVG Scalable Icons for HD Displays | • | • | • | • | ||
| CLOUD COLLABORATION TOOLS | ||||||
| Community and Team Collaboration | • | • | • | |||
| Public, Private, and Secret Community Feeds | • | • | • | |||
| User Group Communities | • | • | • | |||
| Technical Support Communities | • | • | • | |||
| Dashboarding Tools | • | • | • | |||
| Cloud Storage (3DDrive, Google Drive, One-Drive, and more) | • | • | • | |||
| Drawing Visualization | • | • | • | |||
| Drawing Markup | • | • | ||||
| Structured Collaboration | • | • | ||||
| Cloud File Management | • | • | ||||
| Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) | • | • | ||||
| Design Organization with Bookmark Editor | • | • | ||||
| Change Order Management | • | • | ||||
| Project Management Tools | • | • | ||||
| Document Workflow and Tracking | • | • |