Orbit Around Your Design
Touch · Apple Pencil · Keyboard
See your model from any angle by circling the camera around it.
uMake
3D CAD Modeling, Design
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Help
The same help as in the app: a short animated lesson for every tool, with steps for touch, Apple Pencil and a keyboard.
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88 topics in 9 sections
10 topics
Touch · Apple Pencil · Keyboard
Drag precise line and arc segments that chain into an exact profile.
Touch · Apple Pencil · Keyboard
Drag once and the Pen lays down a single smooth, even curve.
Touch · Apple Pencil · Keyboard
Sketch loose, expressive strokes — and let a closed loop fill itself with colour.
Touch
The Pencil draws while one finger orbits — two instruments working at once.
Touch · Keyboard
Set stroke thickness with the slider and pick any ink colour before you draw.
Touch · Keyboard
Drag a curve's control points to reshape it precisely.
Touch
Close a loop of curves and uMake fills it with a surface automatically.
Touch
Aim the invisible sheet your strokes land on, pin it in place, and save it for later.
Touch
Draw directly on a 3D surface and your strokes wrap to its shape.
Touch
Place text on the canvas and style it like any other object.
10 topics
Touch · Keyboard
Pick out one shape with a tap, or gather several at once with the lasso.
Touch
Move, rotate and scale any selection with the handles on its selection box.
Touch · Apple Pencil · Keyboard
Step backwards and forwards through your changes from anywhere on the canvas.
Touch · Keyboard
Split an exact copy off any selection and place it right where you want it.
Touch · Keyboard
Combine shapes into one group that moves as a unit, and take it apart again.
Touch · Keyboard
Organise your design onto layers you can hide, lock, fade and reorder, and gather them into collections.
Touch · Keyboard
Let points click onto the grid, and mirror everything you draw across an axis.
Touch
Move the pivot point so rotation and scaling swing around exactly the spot you choose.
Touch · Keyboard
Step inside a group to edit its members individually, then step back out.
Touch · Keyboard
Turn a shape into a reusable component whose linked copies all update together.
17 topics
Touch · Keyboard
Pull a flat closed curve or surface straight up into a solid shape.
Touch
Push a face in or pull it out to reshape a solid directly.
Touch · Keyboard
Spin a profile curve around an axis to build a symmetrical 3D form.
Touch · Keyboard
Reflect a copy of your shapes across the X, Y or Z axis.
Touch
Repeat a shape in a line, circle or grid with even spacing.
Touch
Create a parallel twin of a curve at the exact distance you choose.
Touch
Round a sharp corner into a fillet or cut it into a flat chamfer.
Touch
Sweep a profile along any curve to form tubes, rails and mouldings.
Touch
Skin a smooth surface between two or more profile curves.
Touch
Draw a curve across a face to divide it into separate surfaces.
Touch
Combine shapes after checking the result in 3D.
Touch
Control what gets cut and which input shapes remain.
Touch
Revisit saved operations or recover their input shapes.
Touch
Conform a flat grille or pattern to a curved body.
Touch
Turn text into a real 3D object you can model like any other shape.
Touch · Keyboard
Edit a mesh face by face: select, move, extrude and delete its geometry directly.
Touch
Measure objects and place dimension lines that document your design.
8 topics
Touch
Give any shape a new colour or a texture in a couple of taps.
Touch
Make surfaces read as glossy, metallic or matte with material presets and roughness controls.
Touch · Keyboard
Light your model with environments and a movable sun, and watch the shadows follow.
Touch · Keyboard
Turn flat shading into a rendered scene with environment light, soft shadows and visual styles.
Touch · Keyboard
Capture views as slides and present them full screen.
Touch · Apple Pencil
Sketch notes directly over a slide — the view stays still while you draw.
Touch
Send your design out as an image, a video or a 3D file from the share menu.
Touch
Drop models, textures and your own uploads onto the canvas from the built-in library.
5 topics
Touch · Keyboard
Split the canvas with a live pane where an AI render of your design updates as you work.
Touch
Choose how boldly the AI reinterprets your design and pick the look it renders in.
Touch
Re-render the preview you are looking at in higher fidelity without changing its composition.
Touch
Match an uploaded image's style, place your model into a photo, and render four angles at once.
Touch
Chat with an AI partner that builds and edits 3D geometry directly on your canvas.
24 topics
Touch
Arrange sketches, notes, photos, and 3D designs together on one infinite board.
Touch
Sketch freely anywhere on the board — finger and Pencil both draw.
Touch · Keyboard
Stack your Space in layers — trace over a locked photo, keep furniture apart from notes, or hide the options you're comparing.
Touch
Everything you collect in one tab: what AI tools make, textures, shapes and styles, with search and sort.
Touch · Keyboard
Cut the objects in a photo onto layers of their own, then move, hide or rearrange them.
Touch
Place your uMake designs on the board and orbit them live without leaving the Space.
Touch
Fill your Space with sticky notes, text, photos, camera shots, and videos.
Touch
Bring 3D model files from the Files app and content from other apps straight onto your board.
Touch
Edit objects, change the atmosphere, and turn an image into a story.
Touch
See an AI-rendered version of your board update beside you while you sketch.
Touch
Choose a tool, use your selection, and build on the results.
Touch
Connect a picture to AI cards, run them with one tap, and update every result when the picture changes.
Touch
Guide an edit with a material, style or subject image.
Touch
Try distinct directions while keeping the same subject.
Touch
Turn one image into complementary views on an organized board.
Touch
Make editable swatches from an idea or an image.
Touch
Generate separate, coordinated surfaces you can reuse.
Touch
Keep useful sets close at hand without generating again.
Touch
Restyle images with a preset or with a style you saved.
Touch
Keep a visual direction to reuse on different subjects.
Touch
Bring separate items together in one new image.
Touch
Collect distinct moments from footage you already have.
Touch
Reimagine an image and build a sequence of changes.
Touch
Stay in control while a result is being prepared.
7 topics
Touch
Start a project from the home screen — describe it or pick a project type, and land in the editor with a scene already set up.
Shortcuts
Work faster with a hardware keyboard — every canvas shortcut in one place.
Touch
Keep your library tidy with folders and favourites, and find any design fast.
Touch
Manage any design from its card menu — copy it, or file it into a folder.
Touch
Know what deleting a design does, and how to keep a safety copy before you let one go.
Touch
Bring models from other tools into uMake — SketchUp, OBJ, STL, STEP, and more.
Touch
uMake saves your work automatically and keeps it in sync, even when the connection drops.
2 topics
Touch
Know how your plan's monthly AI credits work and check how much you have left.
Touch
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