GSTARCAD VS DRAFTSIGHT | COMPARISON

COMPARE THE GSTARCAD 2023 WITH DRAFTSIGHT PREMIUM.

 

REMARKS

  • This table is for reference only 
  • Empty space means functionally not supported
  • The package that contains LT version does not support BEDIT
  • Table comparison updated at Sep 1st 2022
     


GstarCAD 2023 DraftSight 2022
Files Pro Std Premium
64-bit Support ✓  ✓  ✓ 
.dwg and .dxf  for AutoCAD version 2.5 to latest ✓  ✓  ✓ 
.pat,.shx,.lin and etc ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Password Protection ✓  ✓ 
File Recover and Audit ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Purge ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Etransmit ✓  ✓  Pack and Go
Edrawing Seperated software need to pay
Sheet Set Manager ✓  ✓  ✓ 
CAD Standard .dws ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Xrefs in-place Editing ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DWF Underlay  ✓  ✓ 
PDF Underlay ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DGN File Formate Support ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DWG Convert  ✓  ✓ 
Import to WMF, SAT, 3DS ✓  ✓  Only SAT
Export to DWG, DWF, DWFX, WMF, SAT, STL, EPS, DXX, BMP, EMF ✓  ✓  Partially
Add Plotter and Plot Manager ✓  ✓ 
Plot and Publish  to PDF ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Publish to DWF 2D & 3D ✓  ✓ 
Collaboration ✓  ✓ 
IFC format ✓  ✓ 
PDF Import and Export ✓  ✓  ✓ 
ACAD Tool Palettes Import Tool ✓  ✓ 
Single-document Mode ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Digital Signature ✓  ✓ 
Reset Settings to Default. ✓  ✓ 
DWF Import ✓  ✓ 
Interface GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
Quick Properties ✓  ✓ 
Hidden Message Settings ✓  ✓ 
WorkSpace command ✓  ✓ 
Color Scheme More More Dark/Light
CUI Menus and Toolbars  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
CUI Import & Export ✓  ✓ 
Drag and Drop Customization ✓  ✓  Different Method
Visual Menu Customization  ✓  ✓ 
Ribbon/Classic ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Properties Palettes ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Design Center / Tool Palettes  ✓  ✓  DESIGNRESOURCES
Toolbox  GstarCAD Mechanical GstarCAD Mechanical Few Mechanical Tools
Xref Palette ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Command Line  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Work Spaces Switching ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Clean Screen ✓  ✓  ✓ 
New Dynamic Input  ✓  ✓ 
Menu bar ✓  ✓ 
File Tab ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Selection, Snap & Track  Pro Std Premium
Navigation Cube ✓  ✓ 
SELECTIONCYCLING ✓  ✓  Partially
Right-Click + Drag Method ✓  ✓ 
Selection Preview  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Quick Select   ✓  ✓  SMARTSELECT
Select Similar ✓  ✓  SELECTMATCHING
Xtra Grips for Hatch Objects ✓  ✓ 
Osnap  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Grid and Snap ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Polar & Track  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Distance from Endpoint and Divide Segments options ✓  ✓ 
Multifunctional Grips (Pline) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Group ✓  ✓  ✓ 
ADDSELECTED command ✓  ✓ 
Multiple command ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Dimensions GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
DIMCENTER Command  ✓  ✓  Partially
Reassociate Dimension ✓  ✓  ✓ 
DIMTOFFSET ✓  ✓ 
Rapid Distance ✓  ✓ 
Standard Dimensions  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Associative Dimension  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Quick Dimension  ✓  ✓  AUTODIMENSION
Qleader ✓  ✓  SMARTLEADER
Dimension Break ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Multileader ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Multileader style manager ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Text GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
Text Align / Text Match  ✓  ✓ 
Change Text ✓  ✓ 
Mtext ✓  ✓  NOTE
Text ✓  ✓  SIMPLENOTE
Multi-language Character Set  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
In-place Text Editor  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Mtext Editor  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Support .shx and .ttf font ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Spelling  ✓  ✓  Partially
Check spelling in Mtext ✓  ✓ 
Field ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Revcloud ✓  ✓  CLOUD
Wipeout ✓  ✓  Partially
Rtext / Arc text ✓  ✓  Only CURVEDTEXT
Text Incremental Copy ✓  ✓ 
Text on line ✓  ✓ 
Statistics Summation ✓  ✓ 
Layers GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
Auto Layer ✓  ✓ 
Change to ByLayer (SETBYLAYER) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Properties Manager ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer States Manager ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Translator ✓  ✓ 
Layer Walk ✓  ✓ 
Layer Previous ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Isolate ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Unisolate ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Lock ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Unlock ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Unlock All ✓  ✓ 
Lock Other Layers ✓  ✓ 
Layer Freeze ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Freeze Other Layer ✓  ✓ 
Thaw All Layers ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Off ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Off Other Layer ✓  ✓ 
Turn All Layers On ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Merge ✓  ✓ 
Layer Delete ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layer Match ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Hatch GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
Hatch objects from Tool Palettes ✓  ✓ 
Gradient Hatches   ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Gradient Hatches  Color books ✓  ✓ 
Custom Patterns  ✓  ✓  Partially
Background and Color for Hatch Patterns ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Trim/Extend of/to Hatch Pattern Entities  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Superhatch ✓  ✓ 
Transparency for Hatch ✓  ✓  ✓ 
trim/Extend/hatch preview ✓  ✓  Only Hatch Preview
Raster images  Pro Std Premium
Raster Image Support (Clipping, Transparency, ...) ✓  ✓  IMAGE TRACER/IMAGECLIP
Support Kinds of Image Files (bmp\jpg\png\tga\tif\gif\pcx\ecw\...) ✓  ✓  Not support ECW/JPEG 2000/Others
Express Tools GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
Lockup(with password) ✓  ✓ 
Layout Merge ✓  ✓ 
Synchronize Viewports ✓  ✓ 
Breakpoint Check ✓  ✓ 
Fast Select (FASTSEL) ✓  ✓ 
Change Base ✓  ✓ 
Layer Draw Order ✓  ✓ 
Area Table ✓  ✓ 
Break Object ✓  ✓ 
Block Break ✓  ✓ 
Graphic Compare ✓  ✓ 
Batpurge ✓  ✓ 
Layout by Path ✓  ✓ 
Line2pl ✓  ✓ 
Sptpl ✓  ✓ 
GstarCAD Tools ✓  ✓ 
Table Tools  ✓  ✓ 
Plot tools ✓  ✓ 
Drawing Compare ✓  ✓  DRAWCOMPARE
Delete Duplicate Objects (OVERKILL) ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Drawing Lock without Password ✓  ✓ 
Others GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
LISP Debugger ✓  ✓ 
CLIPIT Command ✓  ✓ 
Quick Edit Block Attribute Text ✓  ✓  ✓ 
System Variable Monitor ✓  ✓ 
Region ✓  ✓ 
Dataextraction ✓  ✓ 
Datalink ✓  ✓ 
Make Shape ✓  ✓ 
Import Layout as Sheet ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Viewport Scale ✓  ✓ 
Attribute Increment ✓  ✓ 
Define Layout Viewport from ModelSpace (M2LVPORT) ✓  ✓ 
Security ✓  ✓ 
Free Scale ✓  ✓ 
Hatch to Back ✓  ✓ 
Reverse ✓  ✓ 
Synchronize Attributes ✓  ✓  UPDATEBLOCKATTRIBUTES
Clip Command ✓  ✓ 
Array Options Panel ✓  ✓ 
Align Tool / Arrange Tool ✓  ✓ 
Areasum ✓  ✓ 
Table ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Formulas in Table ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Symmetric Draw ✓  ✓ 
Outline Objects ✓  ✓ 
Invert Fillet ✓  ✓
Draw and Modify Commands ✓  ✓  Partially
Offset Multiple ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Helix ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Real Time Pan & Zoom  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Annotative Objects ✓  ✓  EDITANNOTATION
Object Scales ✓  ✓  ANNENTITYSCALE
Redraw and  Regeneration  ✓  ✓  REFRESH, REBUILD
Layout and Paper Space ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Layout Viewport settings ✓  ✓ 
Magnifier ✓ 
Barcode & QR Code ✓  ✓ 
Non-rectangular Viewports  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Shortcut Customization ✓  ✓ 
Match Properties Across Drawings ✓  ✓ 
Multilines and Multiline Styles  ✓  ✓  RICHLINE
Block Create and Insert  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Block Attribute Definition  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Redefine Block ✓  ✓ 
Refedit ✓  ✓   EDITCOMPONENT
Hyperlink ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Scale List ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Dynamic Block Create/ Insert/View/Edit ✓  Partially ✓ 
MEASUREGEOM (Sum area and Total Length) ✓  ✓ 
AutoXLSTable ✓  ✓ 
Pline Boolean  ✓  ✓ 
3D  Pro Std Premium
3D GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
POLYSOLID ✓  ✓ 
PLANESURF ✓  ✓ 
SURFOFFSET ✓ 
CONVTOMESH ✓ 
CONVTOSOLID ✓ 
CONVTOSURFACE ✓ 
CONVTONURBS ✓ 
Point Cloud ✓  ✓ 
3D Edition Grips ✓  ✓ 
Section Plane ✓ 
Flatshot ✓ 
3D Surfaces  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
ACIS Modeling & Editing  ✓  3D command
3D Orbit options ✓  ✓  ROLLVIEW
Render  ✓   ARENDER
Visual Styles Manager ✓ 
Solid Editing ✓  ✓ 
Solprof / Solview / Soldraw ✓ 
Printing GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
CTB & STB Plot Style Files  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Plot Styles Table Editor ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Built-in Print Driver ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Import & Editing of Page Setups  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Publish  ✓  ✓ 
Hide and Shade Plot  ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Batch Print ✓  ✓  BATCHPRINT
Arrange frame ✓  ✓ 
Licensing GstarCAD Pro GstarCAD Std DraftSight Premium
Stand-alone USB dongle ✓  ✓ 
Network  USB dongle ✓  ✓ 
Stand-alone License (Flexnet) Perpetual ✓  ✓ 
Network License (Flexnet) Perpetual ✓  ✓ 
Online Register ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Subscription ✓  ✓  ✓ 
Technical Support ✓  ✓ 

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