Draw Leather Features

Draw, edit, round, and parallel-offset construction geometry — including seam / stitch-allowance offsets and border lines — as a layout scaffold.

Angle, grid, point, line, size, and point-constraint snapping to keep work square and aligned.

Import a reference photo and correct keystone/perspective to trace over, held in the local project.

Live magic-offset and magic-mirror sub-tools.

Add measured dimension callouts, freeform text notes, and annotation marks to a pattern — sizes and reminders that travel with the design and can be shown, hidden, or printed alongside it.

On-canvas "rays" — dashed guide lines with a value label — that show the number you're setting (an angle, a length, a distance, a radius) right where you're working, instead of only in a corner readout.

Draw around a credit card, a banknote or an AirTag without looking the size up.

Combine closed construction shapes: unite them into one outline, cut one out of another, keep only what they share, or split them into the regions they make where they overlap.

Calibrate the canvas to your screen so what you draw is the size you'll cut.

Work in inches or millimeters, switchable at any time.

Pan and zoom with mouse, trackpad, or multi-touch gestures.

Select, move, flip, rotate, group, and duplicate anything on the canvas — leather pieces, construction lines, groups, or tracing images. Move with the mouse or nudge precisely with the keyboard arrow keys.

Toggleable true-to-size cutting-mat backdrop.

Light and dark appearance options with automatic system settings detection for the default mode.

Measure the distance between any two points, and read the size of whatever you've selected.

Written notes placed on the canvas — "skive this edge", "grain runs this way" — either floating on their own or pointing at one or more parts, cutouts or seams with callout lines.

Rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and freehand piece outlines.

Subtract an arbitrary closed path from a piece, including some preset cutters like common oblong punches.

Place punched holes, kept as separate cut paths for export.

Lay out stitch lines along edges and paths, with configurable hole spacing and hole shape.

Link two stitch lines so they stay in sync — when two seams are sewn together, they should line up hole-for-hole even at different lengths, and editing one updates the other. This is the relationship layer on top of plain stitch lines.

Mark rivets, snaps, and other hardware placement.

Create leather piece outlines and stitch lines directly from construction-line geometry.

Pieces, cutouts, and stitch lines traced from construction lines stay live-linked to those lines, and linked parts can be spread out on the mat for cutting.

Arrange your leather parts on the sheet for printing — align, distribute, and auto-spread overlapping parts apart.

A hole on every corner, at your exact chisel pitch, and a round hole at each turn — instead of corners that land wherever the arithmetic puts them.

A library of ready-made, configurable common project shapes — coasters, belts, wallets, keychains, and more.

Add a margin of extra leather around a piece that is cut away after stitching, so the seam can be sanded and burnished flush.

Curated built-in set of decorative stamps.

Place an individual stamp on a piece.

Emboss / deboss preview that reads as pressed into leather.

Tile stamps along an edge or path, auto-rotated to follow tangents.

Fill a region with edge-matching tessellated stamps.

Import your own SVG stamps into the project.

Export the pattern as a raster image (PNG, JPEG, etc.).

Plain vector SVG and DXF (for laser / CNC) of the pattern.

Print-ready, multi-page tiled PDF at A4 / Letter sizes, with a printed scale-check mark to verify it printed 1:1. The same document can be sent straight to the printer, and every page carries a DrawLeather.com watermark plus an export-identity footer.

Auto-generated step-by-step cut → punch → stamp -> stitch → finish sequence.

Portrait/landscape orientation, additional paper sizes, custom margins, crop marks, and registration marks, plus per-section control over what the PDF contains — the pattern, a title page, scale-check, and the step-by-step instructions — all with no DrawLeather.com watermark. Helpers for large-format document and "architectural blueprint" printing services like FedEx and Staples.

Layered, machine-ready SVG / DXF (cut / hole / engrave / decoration) with material nesting and multi-machine presets.

Add your own logo and branding to exported PDFs.

Surfaces the real-world tools for each workflow operation (cut, punch, stamp, bevel, dye) with links to where you can get them.

Define the specific leather tooling tools and stamps you own in your tool rack, to tailor stamp choices and Related tools recommendations.

Collapse and expand individual panels and sections — parts list, properties, stamps, Related tools, etc.; split right sidebar.

Reposition panels and arrange the overall editor layout to taste (pro customization).

Named color palettes for the workspace, each drawn from a family of colors a leatherworker already knows — paints, dyes, famous leathers, thread and hardware.

Early-access features are marked with a small Preview badge, and during the public preview everyone can use them. If you'd rather work without them, one setting hides them all.

Collapse all sidebars for a distraction-free, full-canvas workspace.

Save and auto-restore distinct panel layouts per mode — e.g. hide the parts list while tooling, or collapse everything for immersive work (pro customization).

Use the full editor in any modern web browser, nothing to download or install.

Full editor on iPad with pressure-sensitive Apple Pencil / stylus drawing and palm rejection.

Install to the home screen / desktop as a Progressive Web App for an app-like, full-screen experience.

Support for touch devices without a pointer.

Keep designing without a connection — the PWA caches the app to work offline. Only features available in Local / no-login mode work offline; anything that needs the server (cloud projects, marketplace, sharing, teams) requires a connection.

Automatic in-browser autosave of the current project.

Save / open a .leather project file on your device.

Store and sync large source photos / reference assets (server storage).

Projects saved to your account and synced across devices (server storage).

Restore earlier versions of a project (server storage).

Sketch a tooling / carving design freehand on the leather before committing to precise linework.

Preview how a tooled design reads pressed into the leather — including where stamps and tools overlap — before committing to it.

Export or print the tooling linework as a transfer pattern to trace onto the leather for carving / stamping.

Guided, step-by-step tooling instructions that walk the maker through each carving / stamping step in order.

Surface the right real-world tool for each tooling effect (bevel, stamp, shade, camouflage, background, …), with guidance on how it's used.

Free patterns authored by Draw Leather, the community, and partners.

Purchase premium patterns from the marketplace.

A public profile showcasing your patterns and shop.

Share a design with anyone via a public link.

Contribute your own patterns to the free community library.

List and sell your own patterns for income.

Shared account with multiple members.

Team-wide stamp and asset libraries.

Multiple makers working on a project together.

Threaded comments and discussion on projects and patterns.

Per-member access control.