United StatesPrecision 2D vector drawing & design for the Mac Make professional quality designs, illustrations and technical drawings on the Mac with XDesign, and on the move with iDesign. Full feature compatibility and automatic sync of designs via iCloud with iDesign (Mac version of XDesign - Available on the iOS AppStore), keep all your designs in sync automatically between your Mac, iPad and iPhone. Check out the XDesign Product Tour (YouTube) & User Guide (PDF) - at www.touchaware.com. FEATURES - Create designs using the traditional keyboard, mouse and large screen on the Mac using XDesign - Full feature compatible with iDesign for iOS to take your designs on the move on your iPad/Phone - Toolbars and panels with easy access to frequently used functions for a fast work flow - Unlimited fast and smooth multitouch zoom with sharp and clear images Standard Tools & Functions - Line, polyline, square, rectangle, circle, arc, ellipse, polygons, stars & path tools - Copy and paste selected shapes and groups - Group and ungroup shapes hierarchically to create complex designs - Edit points, convert shapes to path, close shapes, add and remove points, break, weld, explode and join - Keyboard input options for setting the shape attributes and dimension values - Precise rotation with ability to rotate at user defined center - Object alignment tools - Fill color and pen color swatches with opacity controls, custom RGB mixer - Stroke width, line style, line caps and corner join styles, arrow ends and dash patters - Text insertion with fonts, styles, sizes, paragraph alignments, multilingual, rotate/resize - Set a background image for tracing/marking over it - Insert images, copy, paste, move, resize and position them accordingly - Multilevel Undo/Redo for all edit operations - Undo/Redo individual points and move previous points even while creating multisegment lines and paths - Autosave for all operations to ensure work is saved at all times Layers - Create multiple layers to organize & separate design components - Add, remove, merge, reorder, lock, hide layers independently - Set layer transparency Advanced Tools for Graphics Design - Advanced path editing options for corner, smooth and symmetric control points, straighten and curve segments - Text to path conversion - Boolean operations on shapes, unite, intersect, subtract, exclude - Freehand drawing, auto smoothened paths - Gradients / color blends Advanced Tools for Technical Drawing - Circle and Arc tool based on center, start/end point, radius and angle of arc - Dimensioning tools, length as well as angular with customisable settings - Support for Feet+Inches+Fractions (U.S & older unit system) - Architectural formatting option for Dimensions, to format values in Feet + Inches (eg. 12' 3 1/4" ) - Dynamic grid supporting feet, inches and inch fractions at different zoom levels Units & Board Setup - Support for standard board sizes (A1 to A5, B4, B5, Letter, Tabloid) and custom board sizes. - Set a drawing scale of upto 10,000 times screen size with four decimal place precision - Full set of standard unit systems, Points, Inches, Feet, MM, CM and Meters - Unit aware Grid with customisable settings for grid lines and separators - Snap to grid, snap to object and points, rotation snap and custom snap settings for precise positioning - Unit aware rulers Export/Import & Print - Export designs to JPEG, PNG, PDF & SVG formats for Hi-Res professional quality output - Import SVG files (from email attachments using “Open In” option and also via Dropbox) - Full iCloud support and automatic sync of designs between devices, design files can be saved locally or on iCloud - Standard support for printing
I really like this program but it doesn't support all scales
This program is really good but I can't use it becasue I need 1/8" scale, where 1/8 inch = 1 foot. This and all other architectural scales are impossible to set. I have to draw in 1/8 and 1/4 scales so I can not use this program. If you can use other scales for your drawings this is an amazing program.
United StatesOnly App to design for wood working
I use this app when designing wood projects. It helps me easily figure out how much material I need, what to expect while working, planning for less waste etc. I love this App. Developers are very responsive to any inquiries. If I were to want one feature that doesn't exist today, it might be to have some sort of scale helper... It isn't hard to do the math to figure out your scale on the units, but if I could pick a board size, say letter, then draw a box, then click on that box and somehow choose that the box is 24 mm by 24mm, and the scale then be adjusted mathmatically based on that, it would make this already great program even better, but as is, I love it.
United StatesExcellent program for people new to graphics / logo design
My part-time business needed a logo. After watching a few YouTube videos on logo design, I chose this application to help me create mine. In less than a day, I had my logo created. It looks great! This program has a lot of capabilities, including a lot of tools that are more than just basic. If you are confident using and learning new computer software, but are new to graphics and logo designing like me, I highly recommend this software. But do download the software’s User Guide from the “Help” link, and keep the .pdf open on a second screen while you work on your primary screen. After creating the logo, I “printed” it to .pdf, saved it to Photos and “auto-enhanced” it. The copper color in the logo really popped and looks amazing. It looks fantastic printed on inkjet glossy business cards. For the price, I can’t say enough good about this program and how it helped me.
United StatesSome potential
The program has some good features, but it keeps crashing. When exporting, the program doesn’t akways export in the correct file format, therefore, cannot be opened by receiver. Was cheap enough, but I guess we get what we pay for. I don’t really think I will be able to use it. The program glitches are aborbing way too much of my time.
United StatesIf your looking for a “Visio” type application for the Mac, here it is!
Great to scale drawing program. I cant believe how inexpensive this program was for what it offers. I really wanted a “Visio” type program and this fit the bill perfectly! I only wish I could figure out how to zoom in and zoom out with a shortcut. Otherwise, FANTASTIC!
United StatesNice idea, flawed implementation
User interaction is awkward at best. I was hoping to find something that’s as fluid to use as the drawing tool in Notes on IOS, but that would work on my Macbook and had more technical features (e.g. dimensions, ability to print at a specific scale), or like SketchUp but for 2D. Unfortunately this program falls a bit short on the "fluid to use" part. Missing features/Usability problems no ability to create construction lines, e.g. drag from ruler onto page to create line to snap to need to reselect tool after every operation (e.g. to create dimensions: select dimension tool, draw dimension, select tool, draw next dimension, select tool, draw dimension, select tool, …) resizing lines works as resize box, not drag endpoint of line resizing boxes doesn’t appear to snap to grid/snap points fractional dimensions aren’t formatted very well (poor separation of whole number/fraction portion) It’s useful enough to accomplish what I need, but I’ll still be looking for another (better) option.
United Statesclose to useless
Every export that you do from XDesign alters the layout of the elements. Example: Everything is laid out & scaled properly in the .idesign file, however the export (.png, .jpeg, and even .svg) will have will alter the location of the individual elements. In some instances some of the elements are missing altogether on export. If you want to do a quick initial mockup that’s fine, but know that you’ll have to use another application that can properly export with all elements. Doing work twice seems to not be worth it, instead download an app that you only need to do work in once and that properly exports.
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Enhancements for zoom options - Added pinch zoom support for trackpads. - Zoom value options now shown in the toolbar. - Added zoom to fit width and zoom to fit board options. - Updated short cut keys for zoom options.
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