XDesign for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Jackiebobackie

  If your looking for a “Visio” type application for the Windows, here it is!

  Great to scale drawing program. I cant believe how inexpensive this program was for what it offers. I really wanted a “Visio” type program and this fit the bill perfectly! I only wish I could figure out how to zoom in and zoom out with a shortcut. Otherwise, FANTASTIC!

  
  
• By skrko4

  Some potential

  The program has some good features, but it keeps crashing. When exporting, the program doesn’t akways export in the correct file format, therefore, cannot be opened by receiver. Was cheap enough, but I guess we get what we pay for. I don’t really think I will be able to use it. The program glitches are aborbing way too much of my time.

  
  
• By Tfyoder1

  Light weight, easy to use vector app that merges iphone and Windows!

  As a user of Inkscape, I wanted something that could do a bit of vector graphic editing on the iphone and stumbled across the iDesign app and found it to be a pretty powerful app for the phone. I was very pleased that they made XDesign for the Windows that bridges the two worlds so seamlessly. Light weight, easy to use vector app that merges iphone and Windows! Good work. I would suggest making the saving/retrieving on the phone a bit easier, but the Windows version is ace! Easy to design graphics, or even technical drawings. I’d like to see an option to “lock” an object in place, and move objects infront or behind another object. It’s probably in there already and I haven’t found it yet. For the short while I’ve used it, it has done everything I was expecting, and then some! Good work. Looking forward to what ever updates you make to this app. I think you’ve got a customer for life.

  
  
• By colin_young

  Nice idea, flawed implementation

  User interaction is awkward at best. I was hoping to find something that’s as fluid to use as the drawing tool in Notes on IOS, but that would work on my Pc and had more technical features (e.g. dimensions, ability to print at a specific scale), or like SketchUp but for 2D. Unfortunately this program falls a bit short on the "fluid to use" part. Missing features/Usability problems no ability to create construction lines, e.g. drag from ruler onto page to create line to snap to need to reselect tool after every operation (e.g. to create dimensions: select dimension tool, draw dimension, select tool, draw next dimension, select tool, draw dimension, select tool, …) resizing lines works as resize box, not drag endpoint of line resizing boxes doesn’t appear to snap to grid/snap points fractional dimensions aren’t formatted very well (poor separation of whole number/fraction portion) It’s useful enough to accomplish what I need, but I’ll still be looking for another (better) option.

  
  
• By wx2junior

  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.

  
  

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