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iDesign app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 1712 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: TouchAware Limited
Free
Current version: 4.0.2, last update: 5 months ago
First release : 23 Apr 2010
App size: 72.38 Mb

Precision 2D vector drawing and design on the iPad & iPhone.

Make professional quality designs, illustrations and technical drawings on the move using your fingers at last! iDesign has unique features and offset controls which allows you to draw accurately with your finger not getting in the way or blocking your view.

Full feature compatibility and automatic sync of designs via iCloud with XDesign (Mac version).

User Guide (PDF) available at www.touchaware.com/apps/idesign/userguide

FEATURES

- A universal app for both iPad and iPhone which adapts to the native screen size of the device.
- An unobtrusive icon based visual and context driven user interface with a full screen board view
- Toolbars and panels with easy access to frequently used functions for a fast work flow

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
- 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
- Create multiple layers to organize & separate design components
- Connector tools for drawing charts and flow diagrams

Unique Features for Touch Based Editing
- Offset handles for moving and positioning without your finger blocking the view
- Nudge controls, allows precise movement of selected shapes or selected points
- Delta transformations to apply incremental values by keyboard

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
- Dynamic grid supporting feet, inches and inch fractions at different zoom levels

Units & Board Setup
- Support for standard and custom board sizes.
- Set a drawing scale
- Full set of standard unit systems.
- Unit aware Grid with customisable settings
- Snap to grid, snap to object and points
- Unit aware rulers

Shape libraries to organise and reuse shapes
- Add, remove and organise shapes in your own libraries
- A set of standard shapes for creating floor plans included

Export/Import & Print
- Export designs to JPEG, PNG, PDF & SVG formats
- Import SVG files
- Share your designs with other iDesign users via Email
- Dropbox support for Export, Import
- AirPrint Support

iDesign is available as a monthly or yearly subscription and includes a free trial period that begins once your purchase has been confirmed with your Apple ID account. At the end of the trial your subscription will start and renew automatically. Your Apple ID account will be charged for the upcoming period unless you disable auto-renew or cancel your subscription in your Account Settings at least 24-hours prior to the end of the current period.

Terms of Use: http://www.touchaware.com/apps/termsofuse
Privacy policy: http://www.touchaware.com/apps/privacy

Pros and cons of iDesign app for iPhone and iPad

iDesign app good for

iDesign est sans doute lune ou la meilleure app de dessin vectoriel, très proche du professionel, et cest un exploit vu la faible puissance du ipad. Il ne lui manque que : - possibilité dombrage des objects - outil dalignement dobjets - combiner des "paths" ou joindre des objets. ------------ iDesign is a great app for the ipad, very professional compared to the ipad capabilities. What I would love to see is the ability now to : - drop shadows on objects - have a tool to align selected objects (bottom, top, middle, horizontally or vertically) - be able to combine paths - be able to join distinct paths
Im a designer, I make my vectors in Corel and Illustrator, a long time I try found one Vector APP for iPhone and iPad to make my vector works, this APP is the best, Im very happy because I can export to Illustrator. To developments, my congratulations for this APP.
This is a marvel for technical drawings. I will indicate to all my colleages in my engineering course, please keep updating and fix some bugs. (Note: some people simply dont know how to use the tools, but the interface is very easy to understand for everyone that has used any vector grapghics editor, but an tutorial link in the app can help in this).
Finally a design/drawing app that has all the features I have been looking for in other apps in vain. This one I can really use. Support is great and with upcomming features implemented I would not hesitate to 5/5 it.
So far I really like this App! The UI is well usable and all in all its a powerful app for making simple graphics on iP***. Would be really neat to have boolean subtract, add etc.
Recension iDesign This app is a very good one and it is for the possibilities of an iPad very easy to use. But I always use to say nothing is perfect and that can be made better. + Good performance - Exporting PDF is not possible for Pages, PDF Reader or QuickOffice - Exporting choice not individual. Résumé: Well I wouldnt say it is perfect but I cant find much to say.

Some bad moments

just your average vectorial drawing app, except that only half of the freakn commands actually work. worst 5$ spent on a app in a very long time, stay away from that piece of garbage.
Very frustrating, tried multiple times to add a text box and I still cant create one. Shouldnt that be simple?
bad app.. cant add a text to a simple sign i am trying to design. waste of $
Developer, u should give back refunds to all the previous users who paid for extra features, despite the costly app itself. Now whats the point of paying for extra features?
Ive been working hours on a design and all seemed to go well until I closed and reopened the app. The multiple dropbox backups and the native file on my ipad 2 opened on a very early stage of my work. This is ridiculous and there certainly should be a SAVE option as we work. A waste of my time and money...
I bought this software because I needed to design a stage area for a show coming up. I was up all night doing the design (I LOVE the software!) but then the software crashed and will not restart. I had not had the chance to export yet and fear that I have lost all my work. This is an extremely time sensitive issue (the concert is this week) and I am panicking. I have tried rebooting the software several times as well as performing several hard resets on my iPad to no avail. (fast forward 5 days) I now see that an update has been released. I have installed the update and the software still will not start. It gets to the screen where is says "Loading..." and then just closes back to my home screen after about 15 seconds or more. Any ideas? If my work is saved and the software gets going again, I will gladly rate it with a 5 star..... Jeff

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