XDesign 4+
TouchAware Limited
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- $19.99
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Description
Precision 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
What’s New
Version 1.5.2
Minor bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
OK for simple things, but early beta quality
The implementation of XDesign is rough. I used it for one project, designing a replacement for an existing deck. I used zooming, layers, locking, grouping, rectangles, colors, scale changes, dimension lines, and text, and found many problems in just those features. I didn’t use other things such as circle, and Bezier objects. I briefly tried arrange, align, and boolean operations, but when they didn’t work as expected, I gave up on them. Here are the problems I found. I used a recent 27” iMac with 16 GB RAM, with few other apps running, so there were plenty of resources.
1. Changing color of an object changes opacity back to 100. Opacity should be maintained.
2. Zoom sometimes freezes. To fix, save a copy (use Duplicate command), and work with the copy.
3. Selecting an object doesn’t always show the fill color selected in the color pane.
4. Editing text is poorly implemented. You must double-click the text opject to open an editing popup, and then click back in the text object or a blank space to accept the change. If you click on a different non-text object, the changes disappear. If you click on a different text object, the change goes to that object.
5. You can’t change text size on multiple selected dimension objects; only the first selected object changes.
Only 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.
Excellent Support
Although being a bit hard to "master" this app ti does create some very good fundemental drawings (that is what I use it for) used for presentations. I had an issue with "Text" not working for me so I sent in a request for information.
Within the same day I got a response and after a few detailed and personalized emails my problem was fixed! Best customer service by far.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the positive feedback! Happy to support with any issues or queries.
The app is being actively developed, more to come.
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Information
- Seller
- TouchAware Limited
- Size
- 5.7 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Welsh
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2014-2023 TouchAware Limited
- Price
- $19.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.