It would have been nice of them to have told their users - especially the ones (like me) who asked if purchasing the paid version would correct the issue. I ultimately had to wait until the end of each day to return to the hotel, and do any DWG work in SolidWorks (which requires a VPN to my company to access the license server.) This still forced me to use the SW interface, which is not very user-friendly for files in DWG format, but it did at least allow me to export to DXF and use LibreCad.

I just returned after spending 2 weeks out of country at a customer site.ĭraftsight would not work for me at all neither my windows nor my Linux versions - They both would go no further than the 'Your trial period is over, you must activate.' window.įortunately, I was able to get *some* work done using LibreCad, but their tooling supplier had sent every single file in DWG format, with no answer to repeated requests for DXF.

So here I am 70+ dwg files to work on, and no way to get draftsight to work at all.Ĭan anyone please offer me any assistance at all? RE: Constant request for reactivation dws25 (Mechanical) 1 Sep 14 08:54 And the rest of the applications on my laptop are now complaining about the sad state of my OS! I spent wasted 3 hours last night googling and tweaking and rebooting my linux laptop I finally got it to launch without kicking up errors by using a deprecated video driver and a host of symlinks and bandaids to force it to use 32bit glx, but now there is almost nothing visible in the graphics window (including the crosshairs!) And, every time I launch it, it asks for me to activate it - and yet I have received NO activation emails. Yesterday, I gave up and downloaded / installed it on my Linux box just so I could actually get some work done, but it does not run at all in Linux an extensive search online shows that it simply will not work on 64-bit Linux without swapping in 32-bit libraries, and even then it will most likely be dodgy. I have followed the flowchart on this website, emailed the used a different email address just as a test, and have posted several requests for help on existing threads here. To clarify - when I first started using it 6 months ago, I was able to activate it the very first time. I have filled in my email etc countless times, but have not received any email reply that allows me to complete my activation.

So now I am broadening my search for an answer:Įvery time I launch DraftSight, I am prompted to re-activate it. I sent this email to draftsight yesterday, as well as posting it on their forums I have also requested assistance from multiple emails on their site during the course of this week, and have also asked numerous times on existing threads on their forums that ask the same questions I have not heard one reply from their site, or them, at all.

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