DrawPad 2.0: from idea to print in under a minute. New: • Starter templates — keychains, cookie cutters, name signs, coasters, gift tags and stencils. Type a name, pick a shape, see it at real size and export. Cookie cutters can use your own drawing as the shape. • Raised layers: lettering and parts can sit on top of a base, so name signs and tags print as one piece. • Open DrawPad projects straight from Files or AirDrop. • Works with AI assistants: the free DrawPad tools for Claude and other assistants turn a description into a print-ready STL and a DrawPad project you can open and keep editing. Fixed: • Text and Box & Lid parts are now saved with your projects. • Undo now covers text and parts, and always steps back exactly one change. • Text no longer sinks below the build plate. • Exports of shapes with holes, stencils and lettering are watertight in every slicer. • Split & Mate and the top/bottom plates handle raised layers. • Small models no longer open to an empty 3D view.

Fixes an issue where black and white pen colours were swapped when the device was set to Dark Mode — black ink drew invisibly on the white canvas. Your existing artwork is unaffected and displays correctly after updating.

Undo that survives relaunch, print-weight estimates, and a smoother, steadier canvas. • Undo that survives — Your undo history is now saved with each project. Load a project and keep stepping back through the session you saved it in; closing the app no longer wipes the timeline. • Print estimates — The 3D Workshop dimensions readout now shows your model's exact volume and estimated print weight, and every STL export reports volume, grams of PLA / PETG, and metres of filament alongside the print-readiness score. Know what a print costs before you slice it. • Fixed: quick text and the keyboard — The tools sheet now lifts above the keyboard while you type, so the Quick Text field and Place button stay visible. Drag the list down to tuck the keyboard away. • Fixed: smoother layers on iPad — Background layers now render only what you actually drew, ending the slowdowns and freezes some layered drawings hit on iPad. • Fixed: autosave no longer causes a brief hitch while you draw — saving now happens entirely in the background. • Fixed: imported photos now export in the position you placed them, instead of snapping to the canvas corner. Bucket Fill remains paused while we finish rebuilding it — it will return in a future update. Thanks for printing with DrawPad Pro.stl.

What's New in Version 1.5 - A cleaner, faster canvas with the same one-tap access to 3D. • Redesigned tools menu — Tools now slide up in a polished bottom sheet with a grab handle and a dimmed backdrop. Tap the handle or anywhere outside to dismiss. More room, smoother scrolling. • Push-to-clear — Touch and hold the + button to clear your canvas. A red ring fills as you hold, so there are no accidental wipes — release early to cancel. • Tidier header — Layers, projects, export, share, text, and help now live under a single ••• menu, so the top bar stays clean. Extrude stays right where you need it, front and center. • Loaded-image pill — When you're tracing over a reference photo, a quick pill shows it's active — tap once to remove the background without touching your drawing. • Polish and stability improvements throughout.

The 3D Workshop grows up — this one's for the printing hobbyists who've been with us from the start. New: • Vertical Split is here. Designs wider than your printer's bed now split into 2–5 side-by-side segments with puzzle interlocks carved right into the cut: knobs for alignment, tabs for registration, or dovetails that slide together from above and lock against pulling apart. The female side of every joint is sized by your chosen fit (Loose / Press / Glue), cuts automatically steer around holes in you design, and rings split into C-pieces — not solid halves. Export the set and print one segment per plate. • Fitting keys. Flip one toggle and instead of carved joints, BOTH sides of every cut get sockets and separate key pieces print alongside — dowel pins for stacked splits, bowtie keys for vertical ones — bridging each joint for a solid, positive-locking assembly with flush cut faces. Keys export as their own STL in the set. • A real build plate. Your model now sits on a 220 × 220 mm bed with a millimetre grid, just like your slicer — so you can tell at a glance how big the print is and whether it fits. • View buttons. Jump straight to Top, Front, Side, or 3D views, or tap Fit to frame your model — no more orbiting off into space. • Tap any object to select it (it glows blue) and a full properties panel appears: spin, tilt on two axes with 15° snapping, scale, and 1 mm nudge arrows. • Drop to Plate and Lay Flat buttons put your part flat on the bed, ready to print — perfect after tilting or importing a model. • Live dimensions. A readout shows the exact width × depth × height in millimetres for the selected object or the whole scene — the same numbers your slicer will report. • Models render with realistic physically-based shading, so the preview finally looks like the print. Fixed: • What you arrange is now what you print. Moves, rotations, scales, duplicates, hidden objects, and imported 3D files are all baked into the exported STL. Previously the export quietly ignored the workshop arrangement. • Rotating an object now spins it in place. It used to swing around a far-off point like a tetherball. • Two-finger drag now moves objects across the plate and follows your finger from any camera angle. Dragging used to lift parts into the air and invert after orbiting. • Duplicates no longer vanish when you adjust a slider. • Imported 3D files land where the file says they should, and they export along with everything else. • Orbit below the plate and it fades away so you can inspect the underside of your model. Thanks for printing with DrawPad Pro.stl.

Version 1.3.2 — Stability Update This release focuses on iPad reliability. We squashed a batch of crashes and visual glitches reported by users: • Undo no longer blanks the canvas. Tapping the back/undo button while working with multiple layers used to occasionally wipe the canvas to white. Fixed. • Zoom is rock-solid. Pinch-zooming and the +/− zoom buttons no longer crash the app, even during rapid gestures or right after launch. • Finger panning works again. Moving strokes with the Hand tool no longer crashes when panning with your finger on iPad. • Importing photos as layers is reliable. Large photos from the camera roll no longer crash the app, and failed imports now show a clear message instead of failing silently. Photos are also now downsampled for faster, smoother editing. • Text extrusion improvements. Extruding text that includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, emoji, or other scripts no longer crashes. Thanks for the bug reports — please keep them coming.

Version 1.3.1 — Tracing-quality photo zoom, sturdier undo, fill tool paused Fixed: • Imported photos scale and pan together with the strokes you draw on top of them. Pinch-zooming used to leave the photo pinned to the screen while only the drawing layer zoomed, which made tracing impossible. The photo is now locked to the canvas at the moment of import and tracks pinch-zoom and pan one-to-one with your work. • Undo no longer brings strokes back the next time you draw. Pressing back used to remove the last stroke correctly, but the next new stroke would re-emit every previously-undone stroke as a side effect. The stroke cache is now fully reset on every undo so each new stroke commits cleanly on top of the post-undo state. Changed: • Bucket Fill is temporarily disabled. The tool was producing an all-white canvas and freezing the app on iPad. Tapping the Fill button now shows a "Fill is temporarily disabled" message; the implementation is preserved and will return as soon as the iPad regression is reproduced and squashed. Thanks for printing with DrawPad Pro.stl.

Version 1.3 — Bigger eraser, full-canvas exports, steadier undo Five fixes from your feedback. Fixed: • Exports no longer crop to the original viewport. Drawings made while zoomed out — especially with the radial-symmetry tool — now save and share at their full extent instead of getting chopped at the screen's initial bounds. • Send as Image now includes the entire drawing. Same root cause as the export crop; it flowed through the share sheet, save to Photos, copy to clipboard, and every PNG/JPEG/PDF format. • Undo no longer behaves erratically. Pressing back used to re-mirror restored strokes under symmetry and could appear to wipe the whole canvas. Each undo now reverts exactly one step. • The eraser size slider actually resizes the eraser, and its upper bound is now 200 pt — wiping a fill or large region is no longer a chore at the old 80 pt cap. • White and other pale swatches in the colour palette now show a faint hairline outline when not selected, so you can tell where they are against the panel background. Split & Mate. Cut a tall design into 2–5 stackable parts that press-fit back together. Choose Pin, Tab, or Dovetail connectors and a Loose / Press / Glue tolerance preset; the app auto-places the connectors and exports each part as its own STL. Threaded and Vertical-cut are coming next update. • STL repair pass on every export. Drops zero-area triangles, welds vertices that landed on the same point but missed by a float, removes duplicate triangles. Each export now shows a print-readiness score so you know the file is clean before you walk to the printer. • Shared Loose / Press / Glue tolerance preset across all the matching-parts forms (gears, Box & Lid, peg & socket, hex bolt & nut, dovetail sled) AND the new Split & Mate connectors. Pick once; everything that mates uses the same clearance. Thanks for printing with DrawPad Pro.stl.

Three new matching parts for anyone designing mechanisms. New: • Rack & Pinion — straight toothed rack plus a meshing involute pinion. Set the module, pinion tooth count and rack length; pitch line and pitch circle line up at your chosen clearance. • Internal Gear — annular ring with inward teeth and an external pinion that runs inside it. Same-direction drive for compact gearboxes and lazy susans. • Planetary Gears — sun, planets and ring laid out together. Ring tooth count is auto-locked to sun + 2 × planet so the geometry meshes correctly. Pick 2–6 planets. Fixed: • Inserted matching parts now land at the visible centre of the canvas instead of an off-screen content coordinate. On iPhone, Box & Lid and the new gears used to drop bits past the screen edge with no way to scroll them back into view. • Asymmetric assemblies (a big ring with a small pinion) recentre on the placement point after fitting, instead of leaving the larger part hanging off one side. Thanks for printing with DrawPad Pro.stl.

What's New in Version 1.1.0 Fixed: • Box & Lid now fits the iPhone canvas instead of spilling off-screen — the zoom buttons stay responsive while placing a part, and the outline clears cleanly from the 2D canvas. • Box and lid extrude to their own heights again. The slider now scales every part proportionally, so a 20 mm box with a 6 mm lid keeps that ratio as you dial the height up or down. • First-run welcome walkthrough no longer has floating tool panels poking through on top — the welcome sheet is clean and uninterrupted. Thanks for printing with DrawPad Pro.stl