
#DRAFTSIGHT SUPPORT DWG PROFESSIONAL#
#DRAFTSIGHT SUPPORT DWG PC#
So, should your PC crash for whatever reason, you can locate the latest DS$ and rename it to DWG file and carry on working, hopefully only suffering from minimal drawing time lost. DS$ – DraftSight Professional will do an Auto-Save of your work at a specified number of minutes after you last saved.If you need to, you can rename the BAK file to DWG and open it in DraftSight Professional. The BAK file will be saved in the same location as your DWG file. This is the previously saved version of the file. BAK – Every time you save your file in DraftSight Professional, a backup file is created.OK, so you probably all knew those file types, now we’ll get to the lesser known ones!

DGN – A competitor to the DWG File Format from Bentley Systems, which, as of DraftSight 2017, you can now import into DraftSight Professional.DXF – Before DWG was supported by the majority of CAD systems, DXF was the means to share files with other, Non DWG compatible CAD systems.Practically every modern CAD system supports the format. DWG – Everyone in the CAD world knows about DWG files.The three supported drawing file formats are:

In today’s blog, we will talk about the different File Types associated with DraftSight Professional, what they are and what you can do with them!
