aspexDraw is an excellent vector drawing software for PC’s.

It is really easy to use, great for primary schools and powerful enough to be an ideal choice of drawing program in secondary schools.

Some of the clipart available in aspexDraw

Aspex Draw is an object-based, or vector drawing software, which means that each shape you draw on the screen is a discreet, separate object. You can manipulate and alter it in a number of ways. An object can be resized, copied, moved around the screen, rotated through 90 degrees or freely, clockwise or anticlockwise, undo, redo, group, align and much more. You can make a mirror image of the object, bring it to the front or put it to the back and group it with other objects. 

Draw simple straight lines, crooked lines or closed shapes with the same tool, or curved lines, circles, ellipses, squares and rectangles and lots of other shapes. There are tools to fill shapes and lines with colours and graded colours, have thicker or thinner lines, or no lines at all, they can be dashed and dotted and there are plenty of editing tools. 

Edit pictures with cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, rotate, resize, move, import.  See the full list of editing and features.

“ … we have been searching for a  PC drawing program 

to use with all our pupils for a very long time”

1. A simple line drawing

2. With windows added made

from rectangles

3. A backdrop made from colour filled rectangles and circles, with a couple of curves introduced

4. The completed house is placed over the backdrop which has been 'sent to the back'

1. Plan view of a netball court made from lines and curves

2. The plan view is grouped and then converted to isometric

3. Players are dragged on to the court from the clipart window

4. ... and a couple of basketball nets

Simple colour filled shapes

A bird made from eight edited curves and lines

Drawn with closed lines and cirlces with colour fills and some text

Beach scene drawn mainly with curves and graded colour fills

aspexDraw contains lots of auto shapes to aid in the creation of your drawings. Most of the

shapes are adjustable, the regular polygon for example shape can be adjusted to have

any number of sides to make a triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon etc

... more

The vector clipart comprises 2D Plan View and 3D Views of different objects, chairs, tables, bathroom furniture, playground and classroom items.

Do you have a stock of teaching resources which are being wasted because they are in the Acorn format? Transfer them to

the PC platform using aspexDraw which supports most Acorn Drawfiles, and you can continue to make good use of them.

You can set an option to display all your photo's and drag them on to the picture

Here's a neat project to design a new shop front. Load in a photograph of the original shop...

... create a new shop front design with

drawings and text ...

the original photograph

apsexDraw editing and other features

Redo

Select All

Cut

Copy / Paste

Useful too for joining 'pipes' together smoothly. A pipe can be made using degrees of line thickness combined with graded line colour.

2. Drag the mouse over a picture, and any objects that it touches will become selected.

3. Set the option 'inclusive selection' to select only those objects enclosed by the mouse bounding box.

When an object is selected, a bounding box will appear with grab handles attached to it for scaling and rotating the object.

In other words one can move an object without it being cluttered with a bounding box.

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WMF*

Spo (Spex)

AcornDrawfile

Gif

Acorn Sprite

PNG

Tiff

AcornSprite

Can young children use aspexDraw?

aspexDraw is easy for children of all ages to use. It has a simple toolbar option for very young children and worksheets designed to help them take their first steps in ICT.

aspexDraw in ICT

Being a vector, object-based program, each shape you draw in aspexDraw is a separate object. Pupils learn new skills as they move, edit, manipulate and rotate computer graphics to make a picture or design. Also included within the program are basic ICT worksheets.

aspexDraw in Mathematics

aspexDraw helps pupils explore Shapes and their properties. Drawings are made from lines, curves, rectangles, ellipses, clipart, images and text. There are also Square and Isometric Grids to help you create 2D and 3D drawings. Scales and units of measurement can be altered.

aspexDraw for Art and Design

aspexDraw is the easy-to-use drawing program children use to create images. You can draw pictures or diagrams and also construct plans using Isometric or Square Grids with units of measurement. 

As well as being very handy for Art and Design, it helps with Graphics Modelling in ICT and as a way for pupils to explore the Shape and Space strand of Maths.