Overview
INKit offers the pencil tool for annotating and simple shape-blocking style painting, an eraser and a text tool.
Annotating and Painting
- Canvas
- pinch with two fingers to zoom in on a canvas
- zooming in automatically hides the canvas thumbnails
- zooming out to 1x zoom bring them back
- tab with two fingers to undo
- pinch with two fingers to zoom in on a canvas
- Pencil
- previews and draws in the chosen color, yellow by default
- drag the Pencil button to change its brush size
- at its smallest size the pencil is always pressure sensitive
- at larger sizes it draws at a fixed thickness for blocking in shapes, which you can optionally toggle to be pressure sensitive
- Eraser
- selectively remove any ink currently on the canvas
- drag the Eraser button to change its size
- always at the chosen fixed size
- Text
- add text notes using keyboard inputs
- drag the Text button set its size before and during text unputs
- tap on the canvas place the text bring up the keyboard
- longer text wraps to the next line automatically when it reaches the canvas border
- force a line break via 3 spaces on iOS and 2 on Android
- change the color as you type
- Pick
- using the preset colors, choose an annotation color directly
- pick any color shown on the canvas via the Color Picker for painting
- tap or drag on the screen to make preview and lift the stylus to select
- Canvas Thumbnails
- tap to switch canvases
- live-switches them in Blender too
- hold to duplicate, duplicate + clear or remove one
- tap to switch canvases
Keep in mind
Erased strokes will always have rounded stroke ends. To achieve a flat end, paint over it in the background color.
Collaborative Drawing
Because each device connects to Blender as a client of the INKit server, you can have several tablet computers - or even regular browsers - connected at the same time. That works well for design reviews and presentations.