We recently talked to Brandon Foster, the CAD Administrator at Sealed Air Corporation. Sealed Air specializes in industrial packaging materials, equipment, and services. Brandon has 20 years of experience using SOLIDWORKS, but he and his team also rely on DraftSight for many of their 2D needs.
Brandon told us, “DraftSight is critical for us. Probably 60% of our legacy designs are still within a 2D format, so we have to maintain those. We use those designs to build off of as templates. So, it’s necessary for us to have those tools to still manage the 2D environment. We use DraftSight on a lot of different levels. We use it from an electrical design standpoint. We do schematics and wiring diagrams. We also use it primarily for plant layout to look at production lines to see how the equipment fits and works with the customers.”
“It’s a lot faster to use something like DraftSight to be able to formulate those layouts quickly for customers versus trying to put it all out in 3D,” he says. We briefly turned our conversation toward the tools available to them in DraftSight and asked specifically if there was anything in particular that stood out or has become extremely important to him.