Draft it Architectural V5

Create viewports in layouts with different paper size and scale settings to the original drawing.

layout viewports are to be considered as a view window on your drawing in model space.

Any changes made in model space will be reflected in all of the viewports.

Create your own toolbars containing your favourite commands.

You can switch them on/off as required to suit the type of drawing you are doing.

Assign commands to keystrokes for even faster drawing for example assign the Move command to the 'M' key.

Once done simply pressing the M key starts the move command.

No need to click a button or change to another command ribbon.

You can now preview the import and change various properties and settings to control what is imported.

You can zoom, measure distances, set the insertion origin and scale, explode entities and turn layers on and off.

You can even change the entire drawing contents to a single colour.

Quickly add aligned sequential datum dimensions.

Simply select the first point and position the dimension, then click subsequent points and datum dimensions are added and placed in line with the first one.

Create your own parallel multiple line styles. A Multi line is drawn with a single command in the same way that a Polyline is drawn. However a Multi line style is pre-defined (spacing, colour, thickness) set of the parallel lines.

These are special points that you can add to a symbol so that it can be manipulated (rotated & scaled) in specific ways once it have been inserted. So for example a symbol where the rotation can be altered around a predefined point or its scale changed in X or Y or both axis.

Easily create text tables with control of the number of columns, rows, headers etc. You control the full appearance of tables and can edit them in the intuitive table interface. You can even paste tabular data to and from other compatible applications such as Spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel) and document tables (Microsoft Word).

Six new paste commands controlling what happens to pasted entities. For example placing on the current layer and paste and explode.

A selection of new editing tools which use the properties of existing entities to change settings or apply them to other entities.

Rather than re-define certain settings in drawing you can copy them from a drawing you have done previously. Simply select the copy sections command which is on the end of the drawing settings sub-ribbon. Select the drawing to copy from and all of the settings are transferred into the current drawing.

You can convert any Polyline made of straight segments into a revision cloud. Select the polyline and choose the option via the middle mouse button.

When multiple items are found in a single click a context menu displays the entities in a list allowing easy selection.

Automatically close an open polyline, this feature closes any gap (regardless of size) in a polyline with a single line segment. To access the feature select a polyline and press the middle mouse button, if there is a gap you will see the option to close the boundary.