While working with Idea Studio, I keep coming up with improvement ideas that I’m jotting down as they come to mind. So I thought it would be a good idea to gather them in one place — both for myself and for anyone else in the community who’d like to contribute.
Some of these ideas or wishes may be easy to implement, while others could be more complex — that’s something for the development team to assess.
Please, feel free to use this thread to add and discuss your own thoughts!
I´d like to bump these old here:
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Continued support for Crafter and legacy systems
Machine > Crafter vs iCraft support (I still cannot include links) -
Snap system
LOKLiK Software > IdeaStudio 2.4.0 | We heard you — here’s what’s new > Please add a snap-to-0,0 feature
Maybe a clickable ‘Snap to Grid’ option would also be interesting.
- File handling improvements for MySpace
LOKLiK Software > Improvements in My space would be nice
And add some new I already have jotted down:
- Better selection features:
Implementing selection behavior common to most office and design tools. I can drag to select grouped shapes, but if I want to select one far away that doesn’t fit within the drag box, I can’t hold Shift and click to add it.
Even drag select when two shapes are close is a bit buggy, as it also selects nearby shapes even when you´re not targeting them directly.
This also applies to layer selection. Ctrl+Click adds layers to the selection, but it would be great to batch select a range by clicking the first and Shift+clicking the last in a row:
- Layer names:
The previous image also illustrates something else that would be wonderful: preserving SVG layer names. When working on complex projects outside Idea Studio, it’s really helpful to name layers for better organization. While we can rename layers inside IS, it’s a lot of work if there are many, and keeping the original names would be a huge time-saver.
- Constrained displacement:
It would be very useful if holding Shift + drag allowed movement constrained to X or Y only — as in most design tools.
- Adding distribute feature: aligning tool improvements:
It would help if align, center, and distribute (now called array) were grouped under a main tool, with each having its own subfeatures. This could be developed as extensively as in dedicated vector software, but at the very least, separating them (to avoid a long combo list) and adding the distribute feature would be amazing. This feels indispensable for a design tool focused on repeated elements — like making sticker sheets.
I also wish they had more options for the editing of nodes and make it more zoomable to see the nodes better
