With advanced versions of digital magic developing every day, architects and designers now are able to connect more fluidly with the global design community. In this paperless, new era we live in, we welcome a recently launched feature in Morpholio's Trace app, the Smart Hatch.
Morpholio has four apps built-in. The popular Trace app with the newest feature plugs the traditional architect profession into today’s digital world with smart hatching, “trace paper” capabilities, and the precision of AutoCAD intelligence.
With the use of an Apple Pencil, the Smart Hatch feature allows enhanced adjustments in the tolerance, shading, and scaling of a pattern, as well as saving into a new hatch library, as compared to AutoCAD. Users can use the Smart Fill feature to hatch in concrete and reinforced steel details, roof shingles and wall panels in elevations, and wood planking in floor plans.
Programming analysis with hatch diagrams is available as well. The ability to calculate the pricing and surface area of materials used is also available for material budgets. Custom designed hatches will be available to users in the near future.
“Good hatch work not only brings both textural beauty and depth to a drawing, it conveys technical insight about detail and materiality” says Joey Swerdlin, Morpholio Community Director.
Morpholio has three other apps that are constantly morphing with new features. The Morpholio Board app for interior designers has live viewing of furniture placement and the ability to generate spec spreadsheets.
The Morpholio Journal app has the feature of a modern, smart Sketchbook. This app has partnered with Moleskin notebooks and will have a very exciting, upcoming feature of printing your journal as a Moleskin notebook!
The Morpholio Design Portfolio digitally syncs your work on online platforms and devices. Printing features and pinup critiques can be explored in collaboration with your portfolio and others in a public or private forum.
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I love Morpholio Trace. I use it daily, for all kinds of drawing and sketching. The trace paper metaphor and interface is intuitive and really useful.
Wish they'd make apps for Microsoft Surface, or other tablets.
I've thought more than once about getting a Surface myself and have heard some good things from colleagues. Care to share your use-case/reasons for liking it?
Nam, I don't know that I really have a lot of reasons to list for liking it. Mostly it's just a tablet that I use for surfing the web and streaming. Some photo and video editing, but not a lot.
I ended up getting it vs an iPad because, at the time, I was a little annoyed at Apple because my iMac was on the fritz, and I've never really been enamored with iPads (Why do I need a big iPhone that doesn't make phone calls?). In the end, an iPad would probably fit my same needs, but I do like that the Surface is running a full Windows OS rather than a mobile OS like Apple does with iOS for the iPhone and iPads. If Apple would give us an iPad that ran full MacOS, I might have bought one instead. But then my comment would still be the same, no? Basically I like the app and used it for little things here and there on my phone, but I want it on more than just iOS.
Which is one of the biggest downsides to the Surface I've run into, and I've run into it with more than just Morpholio ... where a company only has apps for iOS and/or Android. Most recently my wife was looking to get the Peloton app on the surface. Nope, only on iOS, Android, and Fire tablets (which is really just Amazon-branded Android) so she's stuck using her smaller devices for portability, or casting it to a larger TV for size, when all she wanted was a screen about the size of the Surface with the same portability as a tablet for Yoga sessions. Though someone mentioned she should be able to access it through a web browser, but I haven't looked into it.
Thanks EA, appreciate the response! Since we already have other IOS devices/tablets, Ive thought of it more as a replacement for a very old (Windows 10 I think) personal laptop. So the apps issue wouldn't be as much of a concern.
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