Last week, Dassault Systemes announced the launch of DraftSight. An open, free, professional-grade 2D CAD product with an online community accessible through DraftSight.com. Its aim, to provide all CAD users access to new services and products to "unlock valuable data stored in billions of DWG files."

DraftSight provides users with a better way to read, write and share DWG files. Based on an advanced architecture, DraftSight is easy to use. At 42mb, generally takes only a few minutes to download and runs on multiple operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Mac OS and Linux support will be available later this year). DraftSight is available for all users, including CAD professionals, students and educators.

Download it now at www.draftsight.com.