PIXAVE SYNCING SOFTWARE

Ironically, the final app in the list (Scanbot, an iOS app which uses the camera on your phone to produce high resolution scans) has probably become more important as I have slowly incorporated more traditional drawing methods into my practice - it acts as the link between the analogue and digital worlds stained glass makers exist in. It is not exhaustive, nor prescriptive, and simply illustrates some of the many tools available to the contemporary stained glass practice. What follows below is a list of the apps that I use most frequently. Most of the apps I now use are available on both iOS and MacOS, sync seamlessly, and are fast, efficient and make capturing information, responding to enquiries and designing new work easier and faster. As we’ve taken on more complex restoration jobs and I spend more time on site than previously, the need for fast, simple tools to keep everything organised has become paramount.

I’ve found I’ve swapped a few apps in and out, partly in response to improvements in the usability of mobile devices (especially the multi-tasking capabilities of the iPad), but also because there has been a change in the work coming through the studio. Since I wrote the original piece on design tools, many aspects of technology have changed.

Despite the fact we work using techniques virtually unchanged in a millennia, we use e-mail.

PIXAVE SYNCING SOFTWARE

A few years ago I wrote a post on the design-related software I was using in my stained glass practice, and many people commented they were surprised just how much use was made of the computer.

Pixave syncing