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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

Overview
What is custom event?
Steps to create custom events
Use custom events

Using dark mode

Viewing dark theme and light theme

To show dark theme:

Click on menu View | Show dark theme

How to turn on dark theme

To show light theme:

Click on menu View | Show light theme

Next Step: 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?

Vecta is a powerful vector graphics editor
with built-in collaboration, CAD capabilities,
javascript based plugins and SVG optimizer
that allows everyone to create graphics faster than ever before

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