Mechanical Design Beginner

DraftSight Essentials

Expand your 2D drafting skills with DraftSight Essentials. Learn to optimize your drawings, streamline workflows, and integrate with SOLIDWORKS for a cohesive design process. This course requires familiarity with Windows and prior drafting experience.

The DraftSight Essentials course is designed to teach participants how to use SOLIDWORKS DraftSight, a drafting automation software tool, to optimize their drawings and designs for manufacturability. This course aims to help users maximize quality, avoid rework, and decrease time to market by providing an in-depth understanding of DraftSight’s capabilities in creating and managing 2D drawings.

About DraftSight:

DraftSight is a comprehensive tool for computer-aided design (CAD) that supports reading and writing various 2D formats, including DWG, DXF, and DGN. It serves as an ideal companion to other SOLIDWORKS products, such as SOLIDWORKS Electrical Schematic for system engineering and SOLIDWORKS Design for manufacturing and plant layout, facilitating seamless integration across different stages of product development.

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$865.00 Commercial
$810.00 Government

*Government pricing requires a valid .mil or .gov email address for each registered student.

UPCOMING DATES

Jun 22–23, 2026

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Aug 24–25, 2026

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Oct 26–27, 2026

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Dec 14–15, 2026

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Network vs. Standalone

A Network license allows multiple users to share a pool of licenses across a network, while a Standalone license is tied to a single computer and can only be used by one user at a time.

  • If you are a sole user or prefer to have dedicated licenses for each machine, a standalone license will likely be the best option. However, for teams that need to share licenses across multiple users or locations, network licenses offer greater flexibility.

 

Term vs. Perpetual

With a perpetual license, you own the software and can use it forever, while with a term license, you only have access to the software for the duration of your subscription period. 

  • If you have stable design needs, a predictable budget and want to own the software outright, perpetual is your best option. For companies with fluctuating project needs who want lower upfront costs and flexibility to adjust their software usage, term licenses are your best option.

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