#DRAFTSIGHT 2016 VS 2015 HOW TO#
#DRAFTSIGHT 2016 VS 2015 UPDATE#
#DRAFTSIGHT 2016 VS 2015 WINDOWS#

Mate icons: A fix for an issue where assembly mate icons are not greyed out when an assembly part is suppressed.Improved text contrast in the Feature Manager Design tree: This issue is related to text colour becoming grey instead of black when switching the Interface brightness setting.SOLIDWORKS 2016 SP2 features were locked down in December however among other things this release will include: The current plan published by Tom Spine who is Director of User Experience Design at SOLIDWORKS is: Year after year the development team have proven they are listening. Hide and Show - The icons have changed to an eyeball in both part and assemblies which also differs in appearance when hiding/ showing.Ĭustom Properties (left) and Options (right)Īlready the amount of feedback for these changes in 2016 has been great, while some like the new interface others wish for something more akin to the icons in 2015 and previous. We now see a very clear difference between the icons to edit and add sketches to prevent accidental selection: The most noticeable changes are shown below. While we can see a clear difference in the colour scheme and some of the icons have been revamped, you can also see that the icons are in the same position between versions meaning the same familiar mouse clicks.

#DRAFTSIGHT 2016 VS 2015 UPDATE#

The icons seen in SOLIDWORKS 2015 have not seen a significant update since SOLIDWORKS 2004 so were overdue for modernisation: This did not work too well in 2015 but is much better supported by SOLIDWORKS 2016.īelow is an image at 100% scaling on a 4K screen (3840x2160) This allows SOLIDWORKS 2016 to support screen resolutions beyond regular “HD” (1920x1080), for instance 3K, 4K and 5K screens, or just help those users who prefer larger text/icons.

#DRAFTSIGHT 2016 VS 2015 WINDOWS#

The primary reason for changing the icons is to change from the pixel/image based icons in <2015 to vector based icons and text which scales as you change the windows text scaling settings. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.The SOLIDWORKS 2016 User Interface has undergone a significant revamp for SOLIDWORKS 2016.

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DVIEW with a Twist: Rotating a Viewport View.

Verify that the image is not an XREF by entering XR or XREF in the command line.

(In this example, the image is placed in paperspace)

Place the picture in the drawing and specify the scale.

Accept the default option of “Paintbrush Picture” in the Paste Special dialog box.

To paste the image in AutoCAD, use the command PASTESPEC or click the “Paste Special” button found on the Home tab > Clipboard panel > Paste drop down list > “Paste Special”.

Copy the selected picture either using Ctrl + C or by clicking the Copy button.

Select either the whole picture by using Ctrl + A or select a portion of the picture by dragging a window over the area you would like to insert into your drawing.

You could also open the picture in from the Windows Paint program.

Right click on the file and select “edit”.

#DRAFTSIGHT 2016 VS 2015 HOW TO#

Today’s tip shows how to bring the picture into a drawing so that it is not a reference and is therefore one less file to have manage… If you have dragged and dropped the image into the drawing or used the OLE method, you realize that file is being referenced and therefore the separate picture file needs to be included when you send the file to the client. But there are some logos that are not so simple and therefore using an embedded image is preferred. It would be better to convert the logo into a block object by tracing over the image in AutoCAD and applying hatching as needed. For example, a client logo that needs to be part of the title block. There are times when an image needs to be included in a drawing.

Draftsight 2016 vs 2015