Main Interface
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The elements of the drawing screen:
Manage drawings in a project or create or switch to another project
Drawings & Projects
Additional features are available in the “Project Option” menu
Share & Print
Setup your drawings on physical paper sizes and then either print or upload them to Adobe Creative Cloud, or share them via email
Prepare your drawing to share
The shapes drawing tool is active allowing you to draw shapes in the active layer
When shapes are selected, additional options become available depending on the numeber and type of shapes
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Drawing & Erase Tools
An overview to drawing and erase tools
Snapping to points
Each shape has an associated set of snap points. These snap points are shown below. When drawing, if a draw point is close to one of these snap points it will automatically snap to that point.
Introduction to drawing shapes
Grouping Shapes and Elements
Show Areas of Shapes
Duplicate, Rotate & Other Draw Features
Explore the drawing environment interface
Polygons
shape selection
Erase Tools
Use the colour palette and save your custom colours
Restore Previously used Drawing Settings
Colours
Apple Pencil Functionality
Once you start drawing, you can vary the thickness by applying pressure to the Apple Pencil, figure 3.
Sketch Tools & Apple Pencil
An overview of the sketch tools including Apple Pencil features
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Varying the width of sketch elements using the Apple Pencil
Before you start drawing, you can vary the starting width of the freehand line or the spray dots by changing the tilt angle of the Apple Pencil, figure 1. This functionality can be switched off from the settings tool bar. figure 2.
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Explore the sketching environment interface
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Add, manage and create new symbols
Symbols
Add images to your drawings and manage the Archisketch scrapbook
Images & importing Content
Add dimension lines
Dimension Lines
When isometric or axonometric grids are selected addtional shapes become available in the shapes palette and lines will also snap to 30˚ angles in an isometric projection
Drawing in 3D
Setup a 3D grid system and see how the drawing environment adapts in order to help with 3D drawing and sketcthing
New additons and improvements to two-point perspective in version 2.5 including a new internal perspective grid system
Explore the two-pont perspective grid system
Explore the one-pont perspective grid system
Isometric & Axonometric
Setup and explore 3D grid system
An overview of the undo and redo system
Undo & Redo
Add guides that act as snap lines to your drawings
Guides
Layers
Using Layers in the drawing environment
Managing & using layers
Manupilating layers in the layers toolbar
Grids
Select different grids which would then activate a different set of properties
Settings
Manage the drawing environment in the settings toolbar
setup the drawing scale and units
Ruler & Scale
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6. Add symbols
Related Resources
2. Set the scale and the drawing units
In some cases you would like to start from a base plan or an image. To do so you need to import the image into Archisketch scrapbook which would then make the image available across all your projects. There are a number of different ways to import images and for more information on this please view “Images and Importing Content” in the help section. The easiest way to add an image to Archisketch is by using the Photos app.
Once you have finished, setup your drawing on a physical paper size to share. You can print directly from the iPad up to A1 size, or exported to PDF, which can be included in a CAD application, or uploaded to Adobe Creative Cloud or the Photos app.
Set the scale and the unit of the drawing in the ruler toolbar. Setting the scale of the drawing does not limit the size of the drawing, as you have limitless drawing size and zoom levels in Archisketch.
1. Import a base plan or image
8. Share your Work
Guides
Share & Print
Symbols
In many cases you need to use an existing drawing as a base for a new one. For example you might be adding a new floor plan or exploring the elevation of a plan. With Archisketch you can import an existing drawing into a drawing layer which it then can be used to setup your new drawing.
Drawing & Erase Tools
7. New drawing based on an existing drawing
Layers
layers
From the shapes toolbar select a draw tool and go over your initial sketches with lines to produce a more accurate drawing.
Freehand Tool & Apple Pencile
5. Hardline your drawing
Ruler & Drawing Scale
Images & Importing Content
Grids
Add some guides to help you with your hard line drawings. Guides can be set at any angles. Lines will snap to guides and their intersections.
From the sketch toolbar select the freehand tool and start sketching your ideas.
4. Add guides
Drawings & Projects
3. Start sketching some ideas
Get Started with Archisketch
Select and add a symbol from the symbol popup menu. As well as the included set, you can create your own custom symbols and add them to the library to be available across all your projects and drawings.
An intorduction to the steps to to start using Archisketch
Add text blocks & text pointers to your drawing
Text
A number of tips & tricks showing how to get the best out of Archisketch for everyday tasks
A short video showing how Archisketch can be used to prepare a survey drawing
Tips & Tricks