Sketch Box (Easy Drawing)

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About this app

DESCRIPTION

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Easy to use lightweight sketching and drawing tool covering wide range of requirements including technical drawings (alternative to vector CAD systems), general sketching, Google maps support, interactive map tools.

Most of existing on market tools for drawing are oriented either for traditional or general drawing either for technical drawing, last automatically means that tool expected to be a vector graphic tool. As alternative to this, Sketch Box provides smooth combination of two mentioned approaches, powered by traditional drawing applications tools and by futures of CAD systems.

Do you remember time when engineers use real paper and pencil for work :)? Sketch Box its something similar, always with you in your pocket, ready to help you to fix instantaneous ideas and decisions.

NEW:

- ADVERTISEMENT FREE: now free version contain no advertisements.
- Introducing Pencils Set: you can have set of pencils with different features each.
- Pencil (Brush) Redactor: change pencils characteristics in powerful redactor.
- Input Dimensions text.
- Optimized Multiline tool, now can build line with any basic shape continuously,
Manual points positioning (scalar and radial coordinates)
- Added free and radial selection tool.
- Drawing engine optimization.
- UI improvement.

Sketch Box is projects based application.
You can create projects from 3 sources
- New project from scratch: has predefined Themes (Black and White, Dark, BluePrint and REM)
- Project from Google Maps snapshot
- Project from device Gallery
Keep and reuse projects anytime later, duplicate and share it.

Layers support:
- Up to 6 layers (Pro version)
- Lock Layer
- Layer Opacity control
- Duplicate Layer
- Clear Layer
- Delete Layer
- Merge to down and merge all.

What it has:
- Wide range of Basic shapes like Lines, Rectangles, Ovals, Arcs to create sketches for any tasks.
- Set of predefined Brushes for free hand drawing.
- Grid tool for precise technical sketching.
- Dimension tool for quick dimensioning (linear, angular, radius).
- Scale tool for setting scale ratio of drawing.
- Flood filling Tool.
- Hatching tool -hatch areas just with one touch!
- Text Tool.
- Elements Color control panels, support colors history.
- Copy tool: copy parts of the drawing, and paste it multiple times anywhere (Use angular multi paste mode for drawing radial continuously repeating details, transfer copy between layers), support squire, oval and free selection. Now have option to save selection to device disk and reuse it later.
- Drawing Rotation tool. Move rotation center around drawing.
- Insert Images from device gallery, rotate, resize and control opacity of it (assemble more complex sketches from parts).
- Setup you working space according to your needs with flexible buttons panels. Move panels around canvas. Pin it.
- export current drawing to Gallery or share it.

GOOGLE MAPS SUPPORT:
- Use Google maps as background for your work.
- Share your location with your comments and marking.
- Use Interactive Compass tool to bind you sketch with North direction.
- Use Vector Tool to show azimuth directly on canvas with just one move (if Compass Tool is used, will provide azimuth considering Compass North direction).
- Use Map Tools to:
- Measure distances between objects on map (odometer).
- Measure areas simply outlined it on canvas.

Enjoy sketching with Sketch Box!!!

Ratings and reviews

I wanted to like this because it has so much potential. I'm a UX designer myself and there's a lot of good ideas present, but it's missing many controls that should be there. Whenever you're learning something for the very first time you're bound to make mistakes. You should be able to erase. I saw an undo button but not an eraser tool or a move tool. Take a look at the UI for Figma, Sketch or Photoshop. I don't think this is meant to be as sophisticated as those tools, but it could be close.

This seems to be a good and very light-weight technical drawing tool. But it doesn't provide a way to delete (clear) a part of a drawing: either you have to use a small eraser (which is slow and imprecise) or you have to clear the whole project (really, really wasteful). Please add a select-cut functionality, developers. Overall, pretty useful app. Well done!

The app is excellent but essentially incomplete, there are three major things that are required to make it 'complete' in my opinion 1 An eraser - there is no way as far as I can tell to erase anything other than through the undo button and even this doesn't work for some things, this means that you can often find that a project you have been working on for quite a while is completely ruined because you cannot delete a simple mistake (personally I would suggest going with an erase function similar to that used by Samsung notes, in which you draw a 'lasso' around whatever you want to select and then just delete it as this is effective and a similar function already exists within the app for copping) 2 A curve line tool (the app appears to have one but it is not functional - instead you just get a pen) 3 A more comprehensive guide - the app has a huge number of functions but there is virtually no guidance on how to use any of them. it could really use a 'tool lookup' so you can find out what any given tool does and how to use it. 4 An option to plot an xy graph If these are addressed (or even if only 1 and 2 are addressed) I will change my rating to 5 stars as the app is otherwise flawless

What's new

Fixed existing projects open issue