Illustrate, design, and share your technical illustrations and graphic designs with ease, precision, and professional quality results – all from within one fully integrated application. Canvas X 2019 is all you need to create all you envision.

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Illustration

Canvas X comes loaded with a comprehensive set of vector object illustration and advanced raster image editing tools.

Drawing with Precision

Canvas X comes loaded with tools and techniques that allow you to easily create scale drawings, floor plans, architectural designs, and other technical drawings with measured precision and placement. Snap objects into exact positions relative to each other, draw from the center points of objects, define the scale for scale drawings, systematically align objects, display size information as you work, and add dimension objects.

Work with Vector and Raster Images

Canvas X’s unique and integrated design environment makes it possible to work with and combine all graphical elements and apply high end effects to each in a single document. Thanks to the ability to work with both vector graphics and raster images with the same powerful enhancement tools, Canvas X users are able to create professional-looking outputs while preserving complete editing control of all graphical data.

Add Objects on the Fly

Canvas X comes stocked with a diverse range of commonly used and specialized technical symbols. Or you can create your own from any vector, text, composite, or paint object, and add it to the Symbol Library. And if you alter a symbol in the palette, all copies of it in the document will change along with it, allowing you to maximize efficiency.

Vector Object Versatility

Experience complete flexibility while working dynamically with vector objects. Canvas X’s adaptable Sprite technology can be used to apply image and transparency effects without rendering, allowing you to continue to edit your graphics at any time. Do more with specialized technologies, such as gradient transparency tools, vector masks, opacity effects, channel masks, and much more.

Raise the Bar with Raster Images

Design, edit, and upgrade raster images with a variety of industry-leading tools and filters. Form composites, touch up photos, create and utilize transparency effects, paint, clone pixels, and more.

Communicate with CAD Files

Import native AutoCAD files, enjoy CAD-inspired dimensioning tools, and edit and manipulate CAD objects. Place a 2D view of a 3D object in your document, edit the view, adjust the orientation, rotation, zoom, and lighting.

Purposeful Pasting

Paste attributes, paste into Text Flows, paste and replace, and copy and paste images and objects. Render objects by copying and pasting them into selections in paint objects. Paste almost anything into a selection, including a selection of a raster image channel, or a channel mask that is attached to another object.

Draw with Data

To satisfy the accuracy demanded by engineering and scientific fields, Canvas X offers complete control over vector object coordinates. Create illustrations from geometric data, use grids and guides to position objects, and adjust objects’ numerical position for absolute precision.

Go with the Flow(chart)

Present complex data in visually appealing, logical, and accessible flowcharts. Avoid having to import static pre-made charts with external spreadsheet programs by creating dynamic charts and tables with data inputted directly into Canvas X.

Design

Comprehensive toolkit for technical design to work with total precision.

Work within Industry Standards

Create dimension objects that fully conform to existing industry and government standards, including: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer’s) floating point standard, ANSI (American National Standards Institute) U.S. Product and industry standards, DIN (Deutsches Institut für Normung/German Institute for Standardization) internationally adopted standards, JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) standards.

Thorough Text Tools

Create text, text layouts, and flow text from column to column. Control all aspects of formatting, create and save styles, apply effects to type, wrap text inside objects, repel text from objects, bind text to object paths, and enjoy a full range of text proofing and annotation tools.

Work Seamlessly with Others

Collaborate with confidence and efficiency with the ability to add comments to any object, including paint, vector, and text objects.

Definitive Dimensions

With linear, chain, and baseline dimensioning tools, it’s easy to pinpoint horizontal, vertical, oblique, and perpendicular distances. Display size information as you draw, measure diameter, radius, angle, area, and perimeter, add dimension objects to illustrations, mark the center of arcs and ovals, and nail down the scale for scale drawings.

Articulate with Annotations

Add clarity to your illustrations with labels or text. You can use the annotation tools to add labels, callouts, or comments to your diagrams or illustrations, or to create simple flowcharts. And if you re-position the annotation label object, the SmartLines™ connecting it to the illustration move right along with it.

Painless Precision

Work with infinitesimal units of measure with certainty and control. Canvas X’s drawing engine fully conforms to the IEEE floating point standard used in scientific, engineering, medical, and biotechnology industries. Personalize these standard settings by editing the size of lines, gaps, text, and tolerances, modifying them for new and unique workflows, and saving them for ongoing use in similar work contexts.

Augment Your Vision

Apply a variety of filters to your images, text, and vector objects with SpriteEffects, or transparency with SpriteLayers. Create a lens object and apply effects to accentuate specific elements of your document. Lens objects let you limit an effect to a particular region of an illustration, or they let you magnify an area when you want to show a detailed view.

Harmonious Help

Never lose your way with Dynamic Help and context-sensitive Canvas Assistant help built right into the application. With Canvas X, when you select a tool or function, the corresponding help is made immediately available to you.

Create Documents for Every Purpose

Canvas X’s templates take the effort out of starting your project. Create documents for illustration, Publication, Presentation, and Animation.

Sharing

Canvas X makes sharing your vision with professional publications and presentations, and collaborating a piece of cake.

Communicate Visually

Application Overview

Examples

What’s New in Canvas X 2019

Great new features and improvements!

What’s New video shows:

Table tool
SVG import
Annotation labeling
Mirror effect

Tables

Create tables for your data: components, changes, parts lists, legends, and more

Easily create, customize, and add to tables. You can copy data straight from Excel^(R) and other sources.

Mirror tool

Mirror will make a reverse copy of selected objects in 2 clicks. The mirroring axis can be drawn or snapped to other objects and rotated freely

Annotation notes features

Annotation Notes now supports auto-numbering and auto-alphabetizing. Use an EasyShape like a circle, rectangle, or diamond shape for annotations.

Settings file

Save and share your settings file for consistency across your organization.

Templates & Presets

Inspiring color presets and helpful template files to start off your illustrations

Additional Scripting functions

Additional scripting functions to automate your workflow

System Requirements

To activate your software, you will need a valid email address and an internet connection.

Hardware

Intel® Pentium® 4 or better 64-bit processor
4 GB RAM installed
2 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)
16-bit color or higher (True color recommended)
1024×768 or higher screen resolution recommended

Software

Windows® 7, Windows® 8, or Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10 (all 64-bit OS)

Product Support

Video Tutorials

Release Notes

End User License Agreement (EULA)

Illustrate your world with industrial precision

All-in-one graphic design and technical illustration software
Comprehensive vector illustration and image editing tools
Work in extraordinary detail with 0.035 micron accuracy
Helpful built-in Canvas Assistant and dynamic help

Canvas X™ is

Technical IllustrationGraphic DesignVisual DocumentationInfographicsMontagesPresentationsGIS MapsAdvanced Illustration

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Canvas X 2019

Illustrate your world with industrial precision

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Subscribe for $239/year

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$599 Perpetual license

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Upgrade $299

Do you have too many graphics applications? Do you want to save time creating beautiful illustrations efficiently? Try Canvas X 2019 and check out our tutorials. You’ll love straightforward workflows – GUARANTEED.

Features | Communicate Visually | Application Overview | What’s New | System Requirements

Features

Illustration

Drawing with Precision

Work with Vector and Raster Images

Add Objects on the Fly

Vector Object Versatility

Raise the Bar with Raster Images

Communicate with CAD Files

Purposeful Pasting

Draw with Data

Go with the Flow(chart)

Design

Work within Industry Standards

Thorough Text Tools

Work Seamlessly with Others

Definitive Dimensions

Articulate with Annotations

Painless Precision

Augment Your Vision

Harmonious Help

Create Documents for Every Purpose

Sharing

Professional Publishing Results

Insert Some Interactivity into Your Documents

Clear Collaboration

Share with Assurance

To Preserve and Protect

Proficient Printing

Communicate Visually

Application Overview

Examples

What’s New in Canvas X 2019

Great new features and improvements!

What’s New video shows:

Table tool

SVG import

Annotation labeling

Mirror effect

Tables

Mirror tool

Annotation notes features

Settings file

Templates & Presets

Additional Scripting functions

System Requirements

Hardware

Software

Illustrate your world with industrial precision

Subscribe

Buy

Upgrade

Subscribe

Subscribe for $239/year

Buy

Perpetual license $599

Upgrade

Upgrade $299

$599
Perpetual license

Do you have too many graphics applications? Do you want to save time creating beautiful illustrations efficiently?
Try Canvas X 2019 and check out our tutorials. You’ll love straightforward workflows – GUARANTEED.