Layout.
The sheet a scheme leaves on, at the size it actually gets printed.
A crit board and a design and access statement are print jobs, and print jobs want real dimensions. Layout works at true sheet size from the off (A1 landscape for a board, A3 for a document), with rulers, guides and a toggleable grid behaving the way they do in a page-layout tool. Drag imagery in from the gallery, set the type from a 300-family library, export a vector PDF at the exact millimetre size a printer expects. Laying out costs no credits on any plan; asking Corb to write a frame or build a whole document from a prompt is the one thing that does.
Boards and documents, properly sized.
A sheet at the size it prints
Sheet mode gives you one large surface, A1 landscape by default. Document mode gives you many pages at A3. Both, plus the full ISO A series, slide and social sizes, or whatever custom size in millimetres you need.
Type, grids and guides that snap
A 300-family self-hosted type library, four toggleable layout grids, and rulers you drag guides off. It all snaps together, so alignment stops being something you have to remember to do.
Export at the size a printer expects
A vector PDF at true millimetre dimensions, with bleed and crop marks if you want them. Not a PNG scaled up and fingers crossed.
Seven templates, and no invented project inside them.
Image-led Board, Competition Board and Presentation Board for sheets; Design and Access Statement, Portfolio, Project Book and Client Deck for documents. Every one comes pre-populated with placeholder text and empty image frames and nothing else, so starting from a template can't leave you presenting somebody else's invented project by accident.
Open Layout
Corb writes the copy, or the whole document.
Select a text frame and ask Corb to write it in its own named style, billed per step. Or switch Corb to Build and describe a document from scratch, working page by page from a template, for a quoted fixed fee, cheaper for a social document than an architectural one. Manual layout work stays free on every plan regardless.
Four layout grids, on by default.
Manuscript for a single text block, Columns for a three-column article, Modular for a module grid, and Baseline for evenly spaced ruled lines you align type leading against by eye. Elements snap to whichever grid is active exactly as they snap to a guide, and the grid lines themselves never turn up in an export.
Share as a webpage, or export the real file.
A read-only public link stays current as you edit the document, and you can revoke or re-issue it whenever you like. Or export the real thing: a vector multi-page PDF at true millimetre dimensions with bleed and crop marks, a PNG, or a ZIP of every page. Site plans and diagrams that need proper vector precision are worth drawing in Vector first, then dropping straight in.
See Vector
A Pen tool for diagram lines and arrows.
Click for a corner point, click-drag for a smooth curve, then close the shape or press Enter to finish. Direct Select goes back into an existing line's points and handles afterwards. Both a drawn path and a plain straight line take an arrowhead at either end (circle, 15° or 45°, open or filled), from the same preset set Vector uses, so a leader line reads the same whichever tool drew it.
What Layout gives you as a piece of software.
Sheets and documents, true size
One large A1 sheet or a many-page A3 document, plus the full ISO A series, slide and social sizes, or a custom millimetre size.
Seven founding templates
Boards and documents that arrive holding placeholder frames and nothing else.
A 300-family type library
Sans, serif, mono and display faces, openly licensed, with full size, leading, tracking and paragraph controls.
Four toggleable layout grids
Manuscript, Columns, Modular and Baseline, snapping alongside guides and never appearing in an export.
Rulers, guides and real snapping
To page edges and centre, to guides, to the grid, and to the edges and centres of other elements.
Corb writes or builds
Fill a selected frame in its own style, or build a whole document from a prompt working page by page from a template.
A true vector PDF export
At exact millimetre dimensions with optional bleed and crop marks, plus a PNG of one page or a ZIP of every page.
Share as a live webpage
A revocable, no-sign-in public link that stays current as the document is edited.
Autosave with conflict detection
Work saves continuously, with a warning if the same document is ever open in two places at once.
Frequently asked.
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Every ArchAdemia Tools plan includes everything on this page. From £29 a month, all in, with no per-tool fees and no surprise charges.