Jun 17
As a follow-up to Scott’s great article on DraftSight and what to do if your installation has expired – I thought I should highlight another great resource PDF that the DraftSight Team had posted on the DraftSight Blog. Read More »
Mar 24
For those of you using DraftSight for all of your dwg/dxf needs (highly recommended over 2DEditor!), you may have noticed an expiration message recently. If you haven’t opened the program recently or never knew how to solve this expiration message, the reason is that DraftSight was still in its Beta stage. Beta1 expired and Beta2 was then released. But now the Draftsight has just released the full version. The solution is to simply uninstall your current version, then download and install the full general release. You are able to download the installation files from here.
Check out the following blog posts for more information about DraftSight:
Feb 21
Yes, it’s true. Javelin is moving. On April 1st we will be operating out of brand spanking new offices at 3457 Superior Court in Oakville. We are all very excited about the move and looking forward to the change since we have been at 700 Dorval Drive in Oakville since 1998. Superior Court is located off Burloak in Oakville just south of the QEW. Our new office is almost 12,000 square feet which is double the space that we have now.
We have contracted with Style Construction for project management and On-Sight Design for design services. Frank, Penny and Wendy are all working hard to ensure that the build goes smooth. The space that we have leased is flexSpace and it is the first development in the Great Lakes Business Park. Our next door neighbors are Canadian Tire Financial.
The space is brand new so we have had the pleasure of designing our own layout. Wendy (our designer) has provided us with a great deal of advice and guidance on best practices for efficient office layout. We have used Draftsight from DS SolidWorks (free and downloadable from the Javelin website) to view all of the plans to help make decisions on the new space layout. See below.
Draftsight is being used to edit and review DWG files
Of course, as the leading 3D design software company in Canada we needed to have our building design as a usable 3D solid model. Our team has used SolidWorks 2011 as well as BuiltWorks to model up the building and the structure. We have been using eDrawings and PhotoView 360 renderings to help us with decision making along the way in the project. We will be doing more work using SolidWorks Simulation to model and test the interior, exterior and other aspects of the building.
New Javelin office modeled in SolidWorks 2011
You will notice a different logo over the front. That’s new also. The Javelin team has also undertaken a project to update our look and brand. We will provide more information about that in follow-on posts.
We are hoping that you’ll come and see us in the new office. In future blog posts I’ll share some great reasons to visit. Some of them will be about awesome new technology we have and some of them will be just for fun.
Oct 06
As many of you may know, in my past life I worked for an Autodesk reseller. During this time, I became an Autodesk systems specialist in many of the product offerings that the company had. Needless to say, I am very picky on my 2D design tool of choice. If you are going to find something to replace AutoCAD, it had better be good, and something I can be comfortable with and productive with immediately. Recently, Dessault released a fantastic FREE product called DraftSight, to help companies deal with DWG files they may have, that they require opening, but can either not open them because they are too old, or because they no longer have AutoCAD to open the files.
Jun 22
Are you looking for a 2D CAD product? Need to maintain your library of 2D AutoCAD® drawings? Or simply want to save the money you are planning to spend on upgrading your AutoCAD licenses? Then you should try DraftSight, a professional-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to read, write and share DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is available for professional CAD users, students and educators to download and activate for FREE.
Based on advanced architecture, DraftSight has a small footprint, should take less that a few minutes to download, and runs on multiple operating systems, including Windows XP®, Windows Vista® and Windows® 7.
Check out the introduction video below.
To learn more about DraftSight and download the free application visit: http://www.javelin-tech.com/main/download/draftsight_dwg_2d_cad_software.htm
