Import PDFs of plans, take photos on site, or mark up your teammates' designs and send them back.
Advanced Natural Design
Welcome to Concepts! An advanced sketching and design tool for iPad, Concepts is used by architects world-wide to design homes, enhance communities, build landscapes and plan renovations on-site, with clients, at home and at the office.
Architects can explore and sketch ideas naturally by hand, produce precision drawings to scale, iterate on designs quickly, export to software applications like AutoCAD, and instantly share their work for an efficient, mobile workflow. Designed as a smart yet natural replacement for all those reams of trace, Concepts is chosen by architectural firms, freelance architects, interior designers and landscape architects as their go-to mobile design tool.
Combined with the sensitivity afforded by the Apple Pencil, I was finally able to use my iPad as a true sketch pad.
How you'll use Concepts
Import client files
Sketch By Hand
Explore and sketch with realistic pencils, pens, wire, markers and more organic brushes in COPIC colors all over the infinite canvas.
Adjust Anything
Adjustable vectors allow you to iterate and change elements of your design without having to redraw anything.
Real-world Scale
Know one measurement, know them all. Set your project to scale and work with measurement to deliver a design with exact dimensions.
Iterate Freely
Infinite layers for as many iterations on a theme as you need to make your client happy. Quickly toggle between alternatives.
Precision Tools
Precision tools like grids, snap, ruler and shape guides help you polish your sketch into a plan.
Export and Share
Export in standard and high-resolution file types or connect with other apps, including JPG, PNG, SVG, DXF (AutoCAD), PSD (Adobe), CPT (Concepts native) and PDF.
You’ll be amazed at how Concepts makes your work easy, enjoyable and organized.
Apps That Work Well with Concepts
AutoCAD An industry standard software package for creating technical drawings, plans and designs. Concepts exports to DXF.
Rhinoceros 3D 3D modelling software for graphics, rendering, drafting, fabrication and 3D printing purposes. Sketch in Concepts, export as a PNG to Rhino3D, and flesh out your design for printing. Alternatively, bring it back into Concepts for fully-imagined concepts sketches.
Grasshopper 3D modelling software for graphics, rendering drafting, fabrication and 3D printing purposes. Sketch in Concepts, export as a PNG and flesh out your design for printing.
Shapr3D An iPad Pro only app, Shapr3D allows you to create fast, 3-dimensional massing studies for your architectural and product designs.
Readdle Documents A one-stop project management and organization app, use it to transfer files between your clouds and between devices.
Adobe Illustrator An industry-standard, vector-based illustration software for the desktop, architects use this to add text and other final enhancements to sketches they've hand-drawn in Concepts. Export PSD, PDF, PNG and JPG from Concepts to Illustrator with a Creative Cloud Account.
Adobe InDesign Create document designs and layouts for digital and print. Export PSD, PDF, PNG and JPG from Concepts to InDesign with an Adobe Creative Cloud account.
Community
Connect with others like you in our Concepts Pro Facebook group.
Enjoy fellow inspiration and share your work with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest.
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Resources
Start sketching with Concepts in no time.
New to Concepts or deepening your know-how? Watch our Quick Start tutorial or download the Quick Start Guide. Check out our other tutorials and see Concepts' vectors in action, learn to set scale for your projects, and export with industry standard file formats.
Read the manual
Become an expert with all the nitty-gritty deep-dive stuff.
Read Online, Download a PDF or get the Quick Start Guide
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Special thanks to Evan Bronstein, Osama Elfar, Erick Mikiten, Ewen Miller and Woojae Sung for sharing their art, insights and inspiration.