Arrette Sketch drafting tools1.4.39 - App Store

Rated #1 Technical App for Architects by ArchDaily!

Arrette Sketch 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 other vector drawing tools, Arrette Sketch is simple to learn and use.

Arrette Sketch is the basic version of Arrette Scale for iPad, available separately in the iTunes App Store. Compared to our professional version, Arrette Sketch is limited only in three ways: 1) distance and area measurement tools are disabled, 2) Edge drawing tools are disabled, and 3) users cannot export to PDF for sharing. For those functions, ideally suited for professionals working in business, Arrette Scale is the appropriate tool.

Arrette Philosophy

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 at any scale. 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 a few 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 Sketch for iPad:

* 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
* A construction manager notes progress on a work site, sending annotated precision-scale documents back to the general contractor live from the work site

For these uses Arrette Sketch is a great tool for drawing freehand scale sketches, whether at home, on the go, or at work. For professional work, which includes sharing original Arrette documents for review, annotation, and modification, Arrette Scale is better suited for those purposes.

Included drawing tools in Arrette Sketch (free application):

* 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
* 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
* 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
* 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

Additional professional features in Arrette Scale (available separately):

* A tool for drawing perfectly straight lines, arrays of parallel lines, arcs and circles
* Distance and area measurement tools for measuring the lengths, perimeters and areas of arbitrary pathways in your drawing at precise scale

Document sharing features in Arrette Sketch:

* Save your work to your Photo Gallery
* Share raster versions of your work with anyone via email, Twitter, or Facebook

Additional sharing features in Arrette Scale:

* Send PDFs with scale and direction information to colleagues, clients, and other parties via email

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 08/31/2023 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 Enhances the Share menu to make it easy to archive your projects to the Files app or transfer them to Arrette Scale. 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 some 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 05/30/2018 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 04/24/2018 Improvements to lasso cut and paste tool now allow for precise rotation of selected objects. 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. Our paid professional version of Arrette, called Arrette Scale, includes the ability to change the pen colors from an unlimited palette.

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

- 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 11/07/2016 Improvements

- Better line quality on higher precision devices and accessories
- Preserves transparency of the image when sharing PNG files 1.4.6 01/28/2016 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