Canvas X 2017 GIS

Outfitted with a powerful GIS-based feature set and diverse design environment, Canvas X 2017 GIS is an indispensable tool for GIS professionals in the oil & gas and energy sectors, aerospace and automotive industries, education, government, and much more. While supporting a wide range of GIS formats, including ESRI file geodatabases, Canvas X 2017 GIS is packed with countless tools for defining complex map projections, performing advanced property operations, and boldly managing geospatial projects with over 1 million objects.

What's New

Now with optimized speed for launching, loading, and saving, Canvas X 2017 GIS features an enriched user experience, carefully crafted for the accessibility and comfort of longtime users. With its unique and integrated design environment, Canvas X 2017 GIS makes working with and combining graphical elements and high-end effects even more straightforward thanks to a variety of efficiency-motivated enhancements. Easily access commonly used functions for a smoother workflow, make effortless calculations, edit dynamically, and much more. Developed for achievement, convenience, and overall ease of use, Canvas X 2017 GIS presents numerous UI improvements to allow for fluid object editing.

Blow it up

The Annotation Lens allows you to easily callout and magnify specific areas of objects. Just point and click. Articulate the way you want by specifying the lens shape, dimensions, frame color, and magnification, then drag it anywhere.

Indicative Icons

Stay on top of your process with accessible symbols and labels to let you know what mode you're in at any given time.

On-the-Fly Editing

Edit and delete SpriteEffects added to objects by simply right-clicking and choosing an option from the context menu.

Selection Sense

Make educated Marquee tool selections with the chosen area's dimensions clearly displayed and actively updating in the Status bar.

Mechanized Measurements

Rely on Canvas X 2017 to instantly calculate the dimensions of objects without even having to define beginning and ending points. Move or delete measurement values for clarity and aesthetics.

Shrewd Shuffling

Circumnavigate the tedium of painstakingly reordering objects one layer at a time. The Smart Shuffle buttons move selected objects above their nearest neighbors with overlapping bounding boxes, independent of the stacking order in the Document Layout palette.

Without a Shadow of a Doubt

Enjoy the effortlessness of a shadow that dynamically updates to the changes made to its object. Customize how far it appears from the object, at what angle, how blurry, and with what color.

Cross-Platform Flexibility

Canvas X 2017 allows you to work across operating systems with support for the import of Canvas Draw for Mac files.

Into Your Own Hands

Canvas X 2017 now features touch screen support for selecting, drawing, painting, and more, so you can create even on the go. Also, two-finger zooming and panning!

Agile and Able

Finish in record time! Faster and more powerful than ever before, Canvas X 2017 boasts optimized speed for launching, saving, and loading files.

Features

Canvas X 2017 GIS boasts a complete geographic information system module.

This includes providing a powerful set of GIS-based features and commands that support a range of geospatial data formats, defining complex map projections, and performing advanced property operations.

New optimization allows you to quickly open and work with documents containing over a million objects. With support for DPI settings for high resolution monitors, this feature-packed software is an essential tool for GIS professionals in the oil & gas and energy sectors, aerospace and automotive industries, education, and government.

Canvas X 2017 GIS can import and export a wide array of geospatial data formats.

Canvas X 2017 GIS’s unique and integrated design environment makes it possible for users to work with and combine all graphical elements, and to apply high-end effects in a single document. Technical illustrators can now open and manipulate documents with over one million objects in seconds vs. minutes.