Goodnotes ruler tool pdf#

I personally don’t use the phone version for creating anything, but having access to absolutely everything I’ve ever written all of the time in my pocket has saved me on a good few occasions.īefore I wrap up, it’s only fair I mention the few things that could be improved, particularly from the point of view of an engineer.

iCloud sync means that everything on my iPad is also available on my phone.

Also very handy if you want to draw some guidelines for writing, then erase them after. This is incredibly useful for correcting dense calcs.

Switch the eraser tool from traditional to erase entire stroke.

Especially handy is support for transparent PNG files, which allows seamless import of more complex sketches done in other apps.

Insert images and text, rearrange your pages and all the other myriad basics you’d expect.

Search within your notes for text including your handwritten notes.

This is such a useful touch - if you’ve imported a snapshot of a drawing or design model and marked it up you can still tweak your marks without also moving the import underneath. The lasso can be toggled to select any or all of handwriting marks, imported images, and text boxes. This is very helpful for sketches, and little things like copying titles across calc pages as well as just making everything line up nicely after you’ve done it.

Use a lasso tool to select and move or copy any marks you’ve made.

This is extremely useful for doing small sketches within your calcs, or neat dimension lines or leaders.

Draw straight lines and a few basic shapes with either the pen tool or the highlighter tool with a toggle.

Want to import a set of architect’s drawings? No problem - you can decide either to import them as individual files (which you can view in separate tabs), or you can import them a single batch so each drawing is in one multi-page document with each drawing on a separate page.

Import PDFs as standalone documents (from Dropbox or similar), or import them as new pages in an existing document.To create a new blank page, you simply swipe past your final page and GoodNotes will insert a new page using the template you’re currently working on. New page creation is an absolute doddle when you are working too. This is where I keep a copy of our company’s calc paper. Import PDFs as templates into the app’s library.The highlighter tool has the same colour and stroke width customisability, and the transparency allows you to layer colours up too, should that take your fancy.Īside from the excellent pen, there are tonnes of features that make GoodNotes ideal for engineers. My go-to colours in the fountain pen are the default deep blue, and a teal that I took from the expanded colour picker. I’ve tweaked my stroke widths slightly and added two shades of green to my palette, but otherwise tend to stick to the defaults. There are 4 preset stroke widths to pick with, but they can also be adjusted with a custom slider. The pen tool can be switched from a fountain pen feel to a ball-point pen feel, and there are 15 preset colours to choose from. You have the option of expanding your default palette from a grid of 150-odd more, or the freedom to feed it hex codes for any colour you wish. Also notable: the palm rejection with the Apple Pencil is great. The act of writing feels natural, and the results, at least to my eye, are perfect. The great news for engineers is that the features included and the design decisions made for GoodNotes make it an incredible paper replacement for the practicing structural engineer.īefore we talk about why GoodNotes is great for engineers, let’s cover the basics: Any handwriting app worthy of notice should feel great to write on, and produce handwriting that is unmistakably that of the writer. The talented people who made and maintain GoodNotes market it heavily to students as a note-taking tool, and with good reason - it is truly wonderful for note-taking. The most notable feature is the very best digital handwriting inking engine I’ve seen on iOS - and I have tried a lot of handwriting apps.

Goodnotes ruler tool pdf#

GoodNotes is at its core a vector based PDF markup tool with a small but near perfect box of tools. Note: clicking on an image in the gallery moves to the next image.