Studio

New Fonts

• Thank you to our Sessions viewers who answered our font poll, as well as to users who have reached out more directly with requests for fonts - you helped us pick 11 new fonts to add to Studio!

• The new fonts include two new single line fonts, a new stencil font, two more fonts for increased language support (Khmer & a more ‘classical’ Hebrew), as well as some novelty fonts that we think will make for great signage.

  
  

  

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue with downloaded SVG naming not matching My Files downloads

• Fixed an issue which displayed the custom Origin anchor regardless of mode menu setting

• Improved undo behavior while editing parameters in the Design Panel

  
  

Shortcuts

• Desktop users can now enjoy an even speedier workflow with new shortcuts including placing shapes and text, some common selection and canvas actions, and even copy—paste encoding in Plan Mode!

• A new page in the help menu helps you quickly reference all of Studio’s Shortcuts.

  
  

  

Fixes and Improvements

• In Design Mode, transform handles for shapes are animated as they appear

• Fix to DXF import and ShapeShifter to cleanup disconnected lines

• Fix for workspace updates sometimes missing mirror actions

  
  

Duplicate in Place

• Use ‘Duplicate in Place’ either by using the duplicate button group at the bottom of the canvas, or use a new shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+D (windows) or CMD+SHIFT+D (mac).

• Duplicate in Place is great for creating designs or patterns that will share some alignment - like concentric circles or a pattern of tenons.

Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue where single line fonts in older designs were getting closed

• Exported geometry from Studio is no longer faceted, unless it has been edited in ShapeShifter.

  
  

Studio’s geometry engine is rebuilt for better precision

• Geometry in Studio is no longer faceted by default. Curved shapes and fonts are now crisp and smooth at all sizes and zoom levels.

• Note that: a high-detail faceting step will still occur when geometry is passed through ShapeShifter and when exporting to SVG. For best results, ensure that your designs are the right scale before bringing them into ShapeShifter or downloading them.

  
  

Fixes and Improvements

• Selection in plan mode is improved for complex designs

• Fixed issue with pan & zoom on mobile devices

  
  

Design Sharing

• Easily send your design to a friend, or share it with the Shaper community by clicking ‘Share Design’ in the main menu.

• You can choose if your shared design is listed (viewable by everyone) or unlisted (only viewable to those with the link) and add an optional short description.

• If you want to make changes to the shared design - you don’t need to worry about someone saving it in a mid-edit state. Once your changes are ready, just click “Update Shared Design” in the share menu.

• ShaperHub now has a new library of designs that you can sync to your files and use as a starting point for your next project.

Studio Features Now Available To All Users; Studio Lite is Discontinued

• Studio Lite is discontinued; copies of existing Lite designs are converted to SVGs in Studio Lite Archive within “My Files.”

• Licensed users of Studio have unlimited access to all of Studio’s Design, Plan, and Review features, along with unlimited exports and automatic syncing with Origin

• Unlicensed (non-paying) users now gain access to all of Studio’s Design, Plan, and Review features, but are limited to 3 exports (download as .SVG or send to Origin) per month.

• Two License tiers introduced: Studio Annual License: Annual renewal option. Formerly Studio Subscription

• Studio Perpetual License: Allows users to pay once for continued, unlimited use of Studio

Fixes and Improvements

• Review Mode performance is improved for complex designs and for Safari users

• Studio thumbnails get an upgrade in Studio, My Files, and Origin

• Studio now opens your most recently created or opened designs, including exports from Origin

• Improved login modal and added ‘forgot password’ flow

• Fixed an issue with re-snapping when dragging shapes

• Fixed an issue with duplicated designs momentarily showing old data

New Fonts!

• 3 custom single line fonts that are especially great for engravings with Origin.

• 12 more fonts with support for non-latin character languages.

An improved font picker

• The font picker now has filters to help you narrow down your search for a specific font style or type.

• You can now preview your font choice before making your pick. On desktop, do it by hovering or using up/down arrow keys. On mobile, you can do this by pressing and holding on the font choice.

• Fonts are now listed alphabetically so you can find the font you previously used more easily.

• Better error reporting when (re)naming Studio designs.

• Now double-click on a piece of text to edit.

• Fix for panning when holding [space] + drag.

• Rotation snaps to 45° increments when "smart alignment" is toggled on.

Set as Reference

• With set-as-reference, you can now easily lock shapes on the canvas with the click of a button in the parameter panel.

• Use this feature to more easily draw over your traces or reference designs and keep your working designs out of your cut files.

Objects set as “Reference” will be:

• Locked (non-editable) and set to a yellow color.

• Deprioritized from selections and excluded from lasso selections.

• Will not be visible in Plan or Design modes and

• Not included in the downloaded SVG or on Origin. Setting as Reference is not included in Studio Lite

• Improved zoom performance on mobile and trackpad with changes to how touch gestures are handled in Studio.

• Display angle on shape during a rotation action.

Custom Anchor support for Origin

You can now add a Custom (Origin) Anchor to your design at [0,0] and position all you work off of that to make positioning your designs on Origin easier than ever.

Mirror

• Mirror any object across the horizontal or vertical axis

• Mirror will respect the active anchor on the object and keep that fixed while mirroring about the intended axis

Selection Manager

• Introducing a new way to deal with those pesky selection tasks. Clean up your active selection directly in the selection manager.  

• The selection manager separates your objects into individual elements that are easy to recognize and select.

Recenter and Zoom to selection

• A new action on the canvas to quickly recenter your design when you lose your place in design 

• When you have an object (or multiple) selected, this same button changes to “zoom to selection”, letting you quickly bring your selected path to focus.

• On mobile, now multi-selection is the default. Just tap on unselected objects to add to your selection and tap on selected objects to deselect. Along with the selection manager, selection tasks on mobile have never been easier. 

• Updates to hover styling in design and plan modes to make it clearer when you are trying to select or deselect objects.

• Rotation math erroneous negative values and consecutive rotation values

• Calculator fixes (including multiplication on Android)

• Adding calculator functionality to grid size

Introducing in-line Calculations!

• No more mental math required to enter fractional bit sizes (such as ¼,  ⅜, etc)! You can now do simple inline calculations right in any relevant numeric input boxes in Studio.  

• Convert units (mm ← → in) or even evaluate multi-unit expressions like “1/2in + 0.5mm” right in-line.

Sync System improvements

• Major improvements to the sync system to improve performance on slower and higher latency networks.

• No more “view-only” messages when you have the same design open in multiple places simultaneously. You can instead choose to load the latest version or save the current version as a new design.  

Selection improvements 

• Plan mode now has lasso select! Just like in Design mode you can now use a lasso to select multiple objects by holding [shift] + drag (on desktop) or tap + hold & drag (on mobile or desktop).

• Studio now automatically orders the layers of objects on the canvas so the smallest shape is on top -- this improves the overall selection experience. 

• On touch devices you now have to select the object (tap) before you can move it. This prevents unwanted move operations when panning the canvas on a phone or tablet. 

Introducing Duplicate Design

You can now duplicate a Studio design to create and save variations, branches or just saved moments in time of a particular design.

• Fix to prevent browser UI from zooming when zooming Studio canvas.

• Improvements to Zoom sensitivity so that the experience is more consistent across devices and browsers.

• Search button in Find Art now works as expected.

Place Separately -> Explode!

“Place Separately” on Import is now replaced with the option to “Explode”. This breaks apart ALL paths in the imported file (SVG or DXF) into individual objects so they can be edited independently.

• Increased snapping thresholds for better snapping performance

• Clicking outside Mode Menu now closes it

• Fix for getting stuck in “multi-select” mode sometimes when shift key is held down

• Stability improvements to sync system

• Fixed SVG download issue on certain Studio designs

• Fixes for sync system to prevent rare data loss, reliability with large updates and slow networks, and client clock errors

• Fix for Android keyboard issue during input for text elements

• Fix for sync issues for some users with device clock not matching server clock

• Fix for duplicate button text displaying wrong defaults

• Fix issues when creating trials

• Fix for browser compatibility issue on iPad OS 15.6/7

The official launch of Shaper Studio!

See shapertools.com/studio for details on features