How to Manage your DWG files using 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight

Article by Dassault Systèmes updated March 25, 2022

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3DEXPERIENCE® DraftSight® connects the powerful DraftSight CAD solution for 2D and 3D DWG files to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, a cloud-based product development environment. This allows you to project manage your DWG files and apply lifecycle and revision control. Watch the video to learn more:

Why choose 3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight?

With all your DWG data saved securely on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, your design and engineering teams can access, share, and manage your drawings at any time, from anywhere, and on any device. Collaborate in real time across disciplines, departments, and your entire business ecosystem, including customers, partners, and suppliers. Add roles that work together seamlessly, and have a consistent user experience so you can design, simulate, and manufacture your products in one place, on the platform. Simplify license management with the ability to monitor usage, manage users, and assign and remove licenses from a single administrative dashboard.

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3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight Benefits and Features

3DEXPERIENCE DraftSight makes it easy for you to create, manage and collaborate on your DWGs:

Creation tools provide a robust 2D drafting environment for your manufacturing and construction communication needs
- Create, edit, view, mark up, share, and print 2D drawings and 3D solids and meshes in DWG file format.
- Reuse rich libraries of drawing and block resources and productivity tools to speed up drawing delivery.
- Migrate easily from 2D CAD tools with a familiar interface and support for DWG data and automations.
Secure data and product lifecycle management on a cloud-based platform
- Store all your drawings in a centralized, secure location and manage them from any device without any installation.
- Manage the lifecycle of DWG and DXF™ files, simulation models, and documentation across disciplines and CAD applications.
- Track issues, changes and routes, and reduce conflicting edits with revision control.
Multidiscipline collaboration across your entire business ecosystem
- Locate relevant drawings quickly by keywords, file formats, attributes, and tags.
- Preview drawings. Zoom, pan, and mark up drawings with multi-touch gestures directly in the browser.
- Create dashboards for personalized views into information from all sources and set alerts for data feeds.
- Share unstructured and structured content through activity streams, chat, video, and user-tagged comments.