Draft Site change of status and program down load not working

I've been using draft site free 2D CAD for quite a number of years for those of you who follow my articles in ME and ME Workshop will be familiar with my drawings which were all done using draft site.

Draft Site caught up with me when my free licence expired No Problem I thought I'll just have to part with some cash for the basic licence at £100/year including fat its not as expensive as other drawing packages and I'm familiar with it.

Not wanting to part with my cash too soon I decided to try the 30day free trial down loaded the program fine, loaded one of my drawings up to try it out and non of the drawing features would work I didn't even have a cross hair cursor

After messing about for I bit I registered for the online chat room this didn't work either it wouldn't recognise my user name or password I tried resetting my password but I've had nothing back from them.

I deleted the programme and tried reloading it but this time I've got nothing.

I've contacted the help desk but so far nothing.

I'm afraid I'm quickly loosing confidence in the system

As any one else had similar problems

Stew

I gave up on Draftsight when they locked me out & demanded money to continue, so have no experience with the current version. I do recall seeing something at the time saying that the new 3D capable, charged-for, version was incompatible with drawings done on the original 2D version, but can't find a link for it now.

I changed to the free version of NanoCad, which has opened my old Draftsight drawings without issues so far. I have been able to set NanoCad up so that it looks almost identical to the way I had Draftsight setup & a lot of the same commands work, much as the same commands I was used to with AutoCad LT worked with Draftsight.

There have been a couple of hiccups - setting up different line types isn't as straightforward & you can't do a line tangent-to- tangent between two arcs - but I have managed so far to do what I wanted to do both with new drawings & opening legacy Draftsight drawings.

Nigel B.

FreeCAD

Can you import your Draftsight files to FreeCAD? It's free and open source and allows both 2D and 3D modelling.

This is what someone I make parts for said in an email at the end of October:

Then someone suggested turning back my laptop date. That lets my old faithfull Draughtsight get going, after which I can reset the date - & everything carries on nicely.

Martin C