Arrette Scale sketch drafting1.4.39 - App Store

Rated #1 Technical App for Architects by ArchDaily!

Arrette Scale for iPad is an app for designers who want to draw freehand while maintaining a measurable drawing scale like vector drafting tools. Architects, urban planners, surveyors, home remodelers, field archaeologists and dozens of other kinds of professionals will find this app useful. Unlike some other vector drawing tools, Arrette is simple to use.

Arrette provides the platform to begin design work and generate ideas without moving too quickly to rigid straight lines and curves. We want to help you draw much as you would normally draw on paper, but to give you the extra tools and ways to share your work that make your life easier and make the design process simpler and more productive.

The basic drawing structure is a familiar one - drawing layers which can be overlayed on a base image. The Grid keeps you aware of the size of what you're drawing, and the Edge helps you draw straight lines when you want. When you're ready, you can easily share drawings by email or save them to your device.

We've designed Arrette to be extremely easy to learn. In about five minutes, you'll understand how to zoom and scale your canvas, draw lines, and load base images to work on top of. Our tools will seem familiar from other structured drawing applications, but every tool we've built has been simplified and optimized with scale in mind.

Uses for Arrette:

* An urban designer drafts plans for a new sub-division in a small town
* A real estate agent snaps a photograph of a living space and begins to sketch out ideas for staging
* A new home owner sketches the plan for an elaborate garden in the back yard
* An archaeologist precisely records the provenience of a newly discovered artifact, including its location on an aerial map and the outline of its form
* A construction manager notes progress on a work site, sending annotated precision-scale documents back to the general contractor live from the work site

These are just a few of the ways that we have envisioned Arrette becoming an essential tool for many professionals. Arrette is the ideal tool for sketching because of its ease of use, preservation of scale, and flexibility in working with original source material such as other drawings, photographs, and maps.

Included drawing tools:

* Freehand drawing pens that scale like vector lines but are as easy to use as pencil and paper
* An adjustable grid system that you can easily flip between the metric system and decimal feet
* A straight edge tool for drawing perfectly straight lines or arrays of parallel lines
* A circle edge tool for drawing arcs and circles of arbitrary, but precise radius
* Distance and area measurement tools for measuring the lengths, perimeters and areas of arbitrary pathways in your drawing at precise scale
* A lasso tool to select, move, copy and paste previously drawn lines
* Layers, for separating out parts of composite objects or for adding new ideas to an existing document that overlay earlier designs
* The ability to share Arrette documents with other users or to e-mail documents in PNG or PDF formats
* An eraser tool, for revising your designs or removing objects from previous work
* The ability to adjust the width of all lines globally even after the lines have been drawn
* A color picker to choose from a variety of different pen colors for your drawing

Base image imports:

* The ability to load base images to draw on top of; base images respect their original scale and direction when the document is zoomed or panned
* Import base images from Email, Dropbox, and Adobe Creative Cloud
* Copy and paste from other apps that support JPG, PNG or PDF

Document sharing features:

* Send PDFs with scale and direction information to colleagues, clients, and other parties via email
* Save your work to your Photo Gallery
* Share raster versions of your work with anyone via email, Twitter, or Facebook

Version History Adds a menu option to allow you to easily sort by your most recently modified Projects. 1.4.39 11/20/2023 Removal of legacy unsupported API code 1.4.38 10/20/2023 Minor UI tweaks to accommodate iPad 9th generation and iPad mini 6th generation models 1.4.37 10/11/2021 Minor updates for new iPad 12.9" and 11" M1 models. 1.4.36 05/26/2021 Tapping the drawing or erasing tools with the pencil locks those actions to the pencil. Tapping any tool with the finger will allow drawing and erasing functions by finger or pencil. 1.4.35 04/25/2021 Improved accuracy for Apple Pencil on some iPad Air models. 1.4.34 02/08/2021 Fixes a minor bug in the toolbar toggle function. 1.4.33 11/16/2020 Fixes bug that causes lines drawn on 11" devices to be misplaced on the grid. 1.4.32 10/09/2020 Minor bug fixes for iPad screens larger than 9.7" diagonal. 1.4.31 09/13/2020 Updated lasso tool to include horizontal and vertical flip operations plus two modes to rotate selected lines around an adjustable center axis. 1.4.20 12/29/2019 Bug fixes and improved reliability and speed for Share menu functions for more complex documents. 1.4.19 06/08/2019 Fixes a bug that caused certain base images with 16-bit color profiles to render incorrectly. 1.4.18 03/18/2019 This release contains stability improvements for recent updates to iOS. 1.4.17 01/14/2019 Fixes a bug that caused the drawing grid to display the incorrect scale on newer iPad devices. 1.4.16 11/05/2018 Fixed a problem that prevented users from successfully connecting to their Dropbox account, a function used to bring in base photos and drawings for projects. 1.4.15 05/29/2018 Fixed a bug that caused the Help screens to appear in the incorrect order. Fixed a bug that prevented users from exporting drawings as JPEG files to the Photo Library. 1.4.14 04/28/2018 Lasso cut and paste tool now allows for rotation at precise angles. You may also change the center of rotation in your selections before you rotate. v1.4.13 02/28/2018 Fixes a problem that affects Aerial photo import from Maps. v1.4.12 11/14/2017 Now, cut, copy, paste, and rotate lines in your drawing with the enhanced lasso tool. v1.4.11 10/19/2017 Fixes a bug that prevented sharing Arrette documents between devices. v1.4.10 07/10/2017 Updates the Dropbox base image import functionality to work with the latest API. Requires iOS 9.3 or greater. 1.4.9 06/29/2017 What's New

Customers have been asking, when will we have a Copy and Paste tool available in Arrette? The wait is over! We've extended the functionality in the Lasso tool to allow you to duplicate your hand drawn lines as much as you like.

* Use Lasso to select a line or groups of lines in a layer
* Cut, Copy, or Move the selected lines within the current layer
* Paste lines into different layers
* Paste lines into different projects

Additionally, we've enhanced the file saving mechanism to add extra protection for large documents. Now, if your app crashes in the middle of a large file save, the system will automatically recover the last successful save. 1.4.8 04/04/2017 What's New

Our focus has been to improve the stability of our drawing application for users creating complex designs and those using the enhanced features available on the iPad Pro. Additionally, we've added a few much requested features that should greatly improve your drawing experience.

We welcome your feedback! Please visit our web site and join the forums to share your experiences and feature requests.

- Choose from an unlimited number of pen colors using our new color picker
- Select and move previously drawn lines using our new lasso tool
- Archive your projects to iCloud Drive in the share menu (requires iOS 10)

Other Improvements

- Enhanced app stability for large documents 1.4.7 10/23/2016 Improvements

- Better line quality on higher precision devices and accessories
- Preserves transparency of the image when sharing PNG files 1.4.6 01/23/2016 New Features

- Allows users to upload drawings to popular cloud sharing services if those applications are installed on the same device. This is an exclusive feature for Arrette Scale users.
- Easily open your drawings in other applications that support PNG and PDF images.

Bugs Fixed

- Updates drawing routines to display correct scale on larger devices.
- Fixes a bug that prevents Adobe Creative Cloud access. 1.4.5 01/15/2016