Welcome to Space
What Space is for, and the three workspaces a drawing moves through.
Space is a precision drawing app for people who make things. You draw at real size, in real units, and every line keeps its dimensions as you edit it. A finished drawing goes out as scaled sheets, as SVG or PDF, or straight onto a wall through a projector.
Three workspaces
Every drawing has three workspaces, switched from the top-left of the screen.
- Edit is where you draw. The tools, layers, snapping and dimensions all live here.
- Plan lays the drawing out on paper at a chosen scale, ready to print or export. See Plan and export.
- Place projects the drawing onto a surface at true scale, so you can mark it directly. See Place.
Plan and Place both show the live drawing, so a change made in Edit appears in them without rebuilding anything.
Where to start
- Read Interface for a tour of the screen.
- Learn the gestures and shortcuts that pan, zoom and undo.
- Draw something with Shapes and Measure. Most drawings in Space start as rectangles and lines struck to a size.
On iPhone
On iPhone, Space is Field Notes: a free pocket notebook for photographing things on site, setting their scale from one length you know, and marking up sizes. Notes sync through iCloud and open here as ordinary drawings.