Add: Shapes tab → tap any shape. It drops on the plate, already selected.
Move: drag a selected object with one finger. Empty space drags the camera. Pinch zooms.
Edit: tap an object → bottom panel: size, rotate, lift, color.
Shapes tab → Draw. Camera flips to a top-down blueprint view. Tap to place points — each line shows its live length in mm and snaps straight to 0°/45°/90° (toggle Straight off for free angles).
Drag any point to fine-tune it. Tap the white first point or hit Finish to close the outline, pick a wall height, and it becomes a solid part — custom brackets, odd-shaped plates, anything the basic shapes can't make. Don't let lines cross each other.
Select a shape → Make hole. It turns translucent orange. Push it into a solid where you want material removed. On STL export, holes are truly cut out — screw holes, slots, channels.
Engraving trick: add Text, mark it as a hole, sink it slightly into a plate. Exported part has recessed lettering.
Hole rule of thumb: make the hole taller than the part it cuts through so it punches all the way.
Edit tab → Multi → tap each piece → Group. The assembly now moves, rotates, and scales as one unit. Ungroup breaks it apart again.
Shapes tab → Text → type a label (A–Z, 0–9). Solid text on top of a part = raised embossing. Hole text = engraving.
Tap the Comic pill in the ribbon. Snap or upload a photo and it gets comic-inked on your phone — bold outlines and poster colors, three styles: Pop (color), Ink (black & white), Sketch (line art). Pick the style before adding the photo.
Tap a panel to select it, then add characters, speech bubbles, and caption boxes. Drag anything to place it, pinch to size it. The ⇄ button flips a bubble's tail, ⬆ brings an item to the front.
PNG exports the finished strip ready to share or print. Save keeps the whole comic as a file you can reload and keep working on.
Tap Skit in the ribbon (or 🎬 from the comic). Cast shows every character you've already inked in your comic chapters — tap one to put them on stage, or shoot a new photo.
The animation trick is one move: scrub the timeline, then drag your actor. Every drag records a keyframe (the gold diamonds). Scrub ahead, drag again, press play — they travel between poses. Pinch or +/− to grow and shrink (that gets keyframed too). ⇄ mirrors an actor to face the other way.
Bubbles appear at the moment on the timeline where you add them and pop away after their duration (⏲ cycles 1.5s–6s). 🎥 Video plays the skit once and records it into a real .webm video file you can text or post. The skit saves inside the same team project file.
When Comic Studio opens, sign in with your name (tap the round chip up top to switch people). Everything anyone adds is recorded in the Log — who did what, in which chapter, and when.
Chapters hold the story: add new ones, rename them, and jump between them. Inside a chapter, use + Before / + After to insert panels at any point in the strip and − Remove to cut one — up to 9 panels per chapter.
Working as a team: the comic autosaves on this device. Hit Save to write the whole project (all chapters, pictures, and the log) to one file — text it or share it to a teammate, they Load it, sign in with their name, add their part, save, and pass it on. The log keeps everyone's credits.
4D printing is real technology: parts printed in smart materials (shape-memory polymers, hydrogels) that transform after printing when triggered by heat, water, or light — flat-pack parts that fold themselves, pipes that expand, grippers that close.
Flip the 4D pill in the ribbon. Select a part → Set start → move/rotate/resize it → Set end. Scrub the timeline or press play — every keyed part morphs between its two states. Pick the trigger (🔥 💧 ☀️) your material responds to.
Design rule: 0% is what you print, 100% is what it becomes. Export STL at 0% for the printable file. Tap Demo 4D for a heat-activated bloom.
• Snap (Edit tab) locks moves to half-grid steps — great for lining up screw holes.
• Top view (View tab) is the layout view — design like you're reading a blueprint.
• Save file often. Designs save as JSON you can reload, share, or text to someone.
• Overhangs droop when printed. Wedges and cones print cleaner than mushroom shapes.