How can we help?
- Using the dashboard
- Personalized dashboard
- Customizing your dashboard view
- Expanding and collapsing sections
- Using folders
- Creating folders
- Refreshing folders
- Renaming folders
- Moving folders
- Trashing, restoring and permanently deleting folders
- Finding drawings and folders
- How to find a drawing's location
- Export drawing in the dashboard
- Import PDF to the dashboard
- Create and manage teams
- Creating a team
- Inviting team members
- Understanding team permissions
- Understanding inheritance in teams
- Sharing a team drawing
- Managing team permissions
- Renaming a team
- Leaving or deleting a team
- Create and manage drawings
- Selecting multiple drawings
- Creating a new drawing
- Renaming a drawing
- Moving a drawing
- Trashing, restoring and permanently deleting drawings
- Understanding trash permissions
- Duplicating a drawing
- Pinning a drawing to the top
- Saving and opening an offline drawing
- Using templates
- Creating a template
- Creating a new drawing from a template
- Editing a template
- Using Vecta template
- Browsing Vecta templates
- Sharing and collaborating
- Sharing a drawing
- Sharing with email (requires signup)
- Sharing with a public link (no signup required)
- Managing access and invites
- Permission types
- Sharing to social media
- Publishing a drawing
- Real time collaboration
- Viewing who is online
- Chatting with teammates
- Viewing notifications
- Integrating with Slack
- Creating a team from your Slack channel
- Sharing a drawing to Slack
- Page size, scaling and units
- Displaying the page setup dialog
- Selecting a page sizing
- Setting a custom page size
- Selecting page orientation
- Fitting a page to a drawing
- Selecting a measurement unit
- Page scaling
- Page margin
- Multiple pages
- Adding a new page
- Renaming a page
- Selecting a page
- Page reordering
- Deleting a page
- Page previews
- Basic shape operations
- Selecting a drawing tool
- Selecting shapes and sub shapes
- Drawing squares, rectangles and rounded rectangles
- Drawing lines, arcs, curves and freeforms (paths)
- Modifying paths
- Moving path points
- Extending or joining paths
- Adding path points
- Deleting path points
- Rotating shapes
- Resizing shapes
- Maintaining aspect ratio
- Resizing shapes from the center
- Resizing with proportional stroke or line weight
- Setting stroke widths or line weight
- Setting text stroke width
- Setting line style
- Understanding line style format
- Setting line end (arrow)
- Setting line end (arrow) sizing
- Modifying stroke linecap
- Setting stroke linejoin
- Using connectors
- Using elbow connectors
- Using straight connectors
- Using jump connectors
- Resizing connectors
- Using connection points
- Adding connection points
- Deleting connection points
- Moving connection points
- Connecting shapes using connection points
- Changing connection mode of a shape
- Locking shapes
- Adding hyperlinks
- Arranging and aligning shapes
- Arranging shapes using back, backward, front and forward
- Aligning shapes
- Distributing shapes
- Creating guides
- Deleting guides
- Attaching shapes to guides
- Moving guides
- Hiding and showing guides
- Clearing (deleting) all guides
- Modifying fonts and text
- Setting font family
- Adding your own web and custom fonts
- Setting font sizes
- Setting text alignment
- Positioning text
- Modifying text padding
- Creating text
- Outlining text
- Setting rounded background on text
- Find and replace text
- Setting rich text styling on text
- Using painter
- How to use painter
- How to use multi-mode
- Using format painter
- Using color painter
- Using formula painter
- Using json painter
- Using the color picker
- Single click to set most recent color
- Setting text stroke color
- Setting background color on the text
- Using default colors
- Setting colors quickly
- Customizing colors
- Customizing gradients
- Add more stops to a gradient
- Remove a stop from gradient
- Saving customized gradients
- Resetting saved gradients
- Using colors and gradients across multiple devices
- Using the color palette
- Advanced shape operations
- Grouping shapes
- Ungrouping shapes
- Grouped shapes with text
- Flip vertical
- Flip horizontal
- Fragment shapes
- Union shapes
- Difference shapes
- Intersect shapes
- Flatten shapes
- How flattening works
- Trimming shapes
- Joining paths
- Outline text
- Converting shapes to path
- Why convert to path?
- Shape properties and formulas
- Viewing Shape properties
- Adding a field
- Removing a field
- Entering values
- Entering units and expressions
- Locking aspect ratio
- Viewing and entering formulas
- Deleting a formula
- Editing formulas on the mini editor
- Automatically minimizing Shape properties
- Viewing text properties
- Editing text line spacing
- Assigning name to shapes
- Automatically incrementing shapes
- Resizing line end (arrow)
- How to use color palette in custom properties
- Repeat transformation
- Using version control
- Save a version
- Reverting drawing version
- Using stencils and symbols
- Opening and using a stencil
- Creating a new stencil
- Collapse all stencils
- Symbol View
- Stencil size
- Understanding stencil permissions
- Editing stencil properties
- Closing a stencil
- Deleting a stencil
- Arrange stencils
- Moving stencils
- Sharing stencils
- Refreshing stencils
- Using symbols
- Creating a new symbol
- Saving schematic pages to the stencil
- Using saved schematic pages from the stencil
- Editing symbol information
- Copying a symbol
- Pasting a symbol
- Pasting a symbol's name, description and tags
- Editing a symbol icon
- Resetting a symbol icon
- Refreshing a symbol
- Deleting a symbol
- Collapsing a stencil
- Arranging symbols in a stencil
- Finding symbols
- Downloading a stencil
- Importing a stencil
- Creating and using layers
- Displaying the layers dialog
- The default layer
- Creating new layers
- Creating non printable, hidden or comment layers
- Renaming layers
- Selecting an active layer
- Assigning shapes to layers
- Inheriting layers
- Deleting layers
- Selecting all shapes in a layer
- Showing or hiding shapes in a layer
- Changing the z-order of layers
- Add custom data
- Importing files
- Importing images into Vecta (PNG, GIF, JPG, SVG, AI)
- Auto-resizing and clipping of imported image
- Importing Visio documents into Vecta
- Importing AutoCAD (DWG/DXF) into Vecta
- Importing Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files into Vecta
- Exporting shapes and drawings
- Exporting shapes
- Exporting the entire drawing
- Exporting as JPG
- Exporting as PNG
- Exporting as PDF
- Exporting as DXF
- Exporting as DWG
- Exporting as SVG
- Plugins
- What are plugins?
- Personal plugins
- Team plugins
- Public plugins
- Accessing and using plugins
- Plugin categorization
- Collapse all plugins
- Plugin size
- Running a plugin
- Automatically running plugins when drawing loads
- Stopping an automatically run plugin
- Creating a plugin
- Editing the plugin script
- Renaming and editing a plugin
- Editing plugin icons
- Refreshing a plugin
- Sharing a plugin to other teams
- Finding plugins
- Applying shadow, bevel and other effects
- Applying effects
- Drop shadow
- Inner shadow
- Bevel
- Blur
- Glow
- Deleting an effect
- Effect on text
- Add custom data
- What is custom data?
- Add custom data
- Use custom data
- Add custom menu
- Viewing custom menu
- Understanding custom menu
- Selecting a custom menu
- Rearrange custom menu
- Example of custom menu
- Using Clip Path
- Create clip path
- Text clipper
- Remove clip path
- Using flow text
- Create flow text
- Offset flow text
- Revert flow text
- Preferences and settings
- Setting the language
- Setting the keyboard increment
- Automatically resize symbols to snap on grid
- Show confirmation dialog when modifying stencils
- Automatically insert title block after creating a new page
- Automatically snap to nearby shapes
- Play sound when chat message is received
- Play sound when collaborator joins editing
- Notification settings
- Enable or disable desktop notifications
- DWG/DXF settings
- Enable or disable Import dimensions and Import layers
- Keyboard shortcuts
- List of keyboard shortcuts
- Using dark mode
- Viewing dark theme and light theme
- Pricing
- Freemium model
- What happens to my drawings and Stencils after Beta?
- Are you sustainable?
- How do we intend to make money?
- Are you open to any integration request or customizing Vecta to fit into our workflow?
- Frequently asked questions
- If I share a drawing and then move the drawing to a folder, will it affect other users?
- What happens if a user trash the drawing I shared to them?
- Can a user create a new drawing from shared drawing?
- How to check if the drawing belongs to personal or team in the editor?
- I have a suggestion I would like share with Vecta. How can I contact you?
- How to delete my account?
- Google Drive Integration
- Create Google Files from Vecta dashboard
- Google Files Functions
- Google Files Ownership
- Deleting Google Files
- Add custom events
- What is custom event?
- Steps to create custom events
- Use custom events
