- Mac app
3.1
New File Format
Single files making it easier for you to share.
Improved Masks
The button in the toolbar is more versatile.
Smarter Snapping
More intelligent, with better text snapping.
Pages Panel
Redesigned for speed and convenience.
Improvements (62)
- Sketch’s file format has changed; documents are now truly single files and can be safely emailed or shared via Dropbox and other services without having to zip them up first
- Creating Masks has been made easier; the Mask-with-Shape button now accepts any combination of layers
- Boolean op’ed shapes’ bounds now only include the visible area only, not the total bounds of all subpaths
- Layer snapping has been made smarter, including better text snapping
- You can now add ruler guides with a single-click on the rulers
- Significant speed increases and file size reduction when using pattern fills
- Hover the Rulers for a quick preview of your next guide. Ideal also for quickly checking if layers align etc
- Fixes a bug where Opacity wouldn’t be rendered consistently between shapes and bitmaps
- Rendering speed improvements
- Fixes a bug where text editing could jump slightly when zoomed in some cases
- Pages Panel has been redesigned and now fits as a permanent sidebar in the UI
- You can drag/drop layers to the pages panel to quickly move objects between pages
- Fixes a bug where Sketch could crash when a symbol name started with @
- Fixes all known bugs in Framer - Sketch integration
- Improves integration with the system color picker for gradients
- Cmd+Return can now be used to exit text editing mode
- You can now reset the rulers by double-clicking the ruler intersection area
- Improves the zoom tool on dark backgrounds
- Significant speed improvements when the rulers are visible
- Improves undo for renaming layers
- Fixes a bug where renaming Symbols could cause a crash
- Fixes a bug where dragging out an SVG slice could crash Sketch
- The Scissors Tool now scales properly with zoom value
- Fixes a bug where patterns wouldn’t be drawn in the shared styles preview
- Fixes a bug where Angular gradients could be rendered at low resolution
- Fixes a bug where adding a guide could place it on subpixels
- Fixes a bug where slices created for rotated objects could be one pixel off
- Fixes a bug where point coordinates outside an artboard could be wrong
- Due to popular request (no it wasn’t a bug), we’re making move Forward/Backward dumb again
- You can now replace the contents of an image layer with a new image by going to Layer > Image > Replace
- Restore an image to its original size by going to Layer > Image > Original Size
- Fixes a bug where some documents could consume extraordinary amounts of CPU
- Color and Gradient presets now display a checkered background when they’re transparent
- Fixes a bug where creating a slice for a transparent layer could make the slice too big
- Large patterns are now properly scaled to fit the small preset previews
- Fixes a bug where deleting an artboard could leave its outline on the canvas in some cases
- Fixes an issue where Gradient editing was confusing when started on a subpath
- Fixes a bug where ‘Bring to Front’ on multiple layers could get their order mixed up
- Fixes a bug where extra spaces wouldn’t get trimmed around slice names
- Fixes a bug where moving layers off an artboard with the arrow keys would never actually remove them from the artboard
- Fixes a bug where inserting an artboard while you were in a rotated group could look funky
- Fixes a bug where pasted text could be invisible at first
- While inserting a layer you can now drag outside the canvas to make the view scroll
- When changing guides in the preferences, the canvas now updates live to reflect the change
- Moves Grid color settings to the grid settings sheet to make it more discoverable
- Inserting points in vector mode on an existing line now also honours rounding preference
- Fixes a bug in bitmap cropping
- The templates folder can now be an alias or symlink
- Fixes a bug where layer naming would go wrong
- Vector point coordinates in the inspector now round to two decimals
- When you resize an artboard from the top or the left, the content stays anchored in the canvas now instead of shifting left or up
- Symbols and Text Styles menu can now be arbitrarily deeply nested by using / in their names
- Fixes a bug where text layers wouldn’t render multiple fills
- Shift-clicking on a vector point now deselects it if it was already selected
- View > Collapse Groups has been renamed to include Artboards too
- Fixes a bug where Magic Wand would miss the top 1 pixel
- Flattening layers into a bitmap now inserts the bitmap at the location of the old layers instead of on top
- Fixes Shared Styles break when copying and pasting style
- Fixes a refresh issue when changing text layers from fixed to flexible width
- Fixes a bug where Pencil vectors would not end up in the correct artboards
- Ignore character spacing for the last character to not miss with centred text
- Fixes a bug where making a grid of objects could rename the source object as well
Download Sketch 3.1
Requires Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) or newer
