Hestus Sketch Helper

Win64, English

Hestus, Inc

Sketch Helper offers design suggestions, such as applying equality constraints to similarly sized circles or adding tangent constraints between lines and curves.

Version History

General Usage Instructions

Sketch Helper is available exclusively in Sketch Mode.
Sketch Helper tutorial can be accessed from within Solid and Sketch Environments.
Click the Hestus icon in the Toolbar to launch Sketch Helper and start receiving design suggestions.
Users can continue sketching while receiving real-time design suggestions.
Highest ranked recommendation appears right on the sketch (in red).
Interact with proposed recommendations via Sketch Helper palette or via keyboard shortcuts.
Sketch Helper remains open—keep designing and receiving new suggestions.
Easily undo any changes made through Sketch Helper with the 'Undo' button.

Screenshots

Commands

Installation/Uninstallation

Installation:
The installer that ran when you downloaded this app/plug-in from the Autodesk App Store will start installing the app/plug-in. Or, simply double-click the downloaded installer to install the app/plugin.

Uninstallation:
You can unload the add-in without uninstalling it by clicking the "Stop" button when the add-in is selected in the list box on the "Add-Ins" tab of the "Scripts and Add-Ins" dialog.
Unchecking "Run on Startup" causes the add-in not to be loaded in future Autodesk® Fusion® sessions.
To uninstall this plug-in, exit the Autodesk product if you are currently running it, simply rerun the installer, and select the "Uninstall" button.
Or, you can uninstall it from 'Control Panel/Programs and Features' (Windows 10/11), just as you would uninstall any other application from your system.

Additional Information

Known Issues

Contact

Company Name: Hestus, Inc

Company URL: https://www.hestus.co

Support Contact: support@hestus.co

Author/Company Information

Hestus, Inc

Support Information

For support, please contact us at support@hestus.co.

Version History

Version Number	Version Description
1.0.8	This version of Sketch Helper introduces powerful new capabilities aimed at making your sketching workflow faster, smarter, and more intuitive. Here's what’s new: Predictive Suggestions: - Sketch Helper now predicts your next action and ranks recommendations by usefulness, with the best suggestion appearing directly on your sketch (in red). - This helps maintain focus and reduces context switching, allowing you to better leverage Sketch Helper recommendations to complete your sketch faster and more efficiently . - The original Sketch Helper palette has been replaced with a smaller, more interactive palette, returning valuable screen real estate to the user. - Interacting with Predictive Suggestions is easy and can be done via keyboard shortcuts or by clicking icons on the palette: * Accept a suggestion by pressing Enter or clicking the green checkmark. * Cycle through alternative suggestions using the comma ( , ) and period ( . ) keys or by clicking the arrow buttons on the palette. * Continue designing without interruption by simply drawing, pressing ESC, or clicking the red X. Improved Tangents - Supercharged tangent recommendations, whether it’s line-to-arc, line-to-circle, or arc-to-circle (at endpoints or anywhere along the curve). For a more detailed release notes, please refer to our release notes page (https://www.hestus.co/releasenotes).

Version Number

Version Description

1.0.8

This version of Sketch Helper introduces powerful new capabilities aimed at making your sketching workflow faster, smarter, and more intuitive. Here's what’s new:

Predictive Suggestions:
- Sketch Helper now predicts your next action and ranks recommendations by usefulness, with the best suggestion appearing directly on your sketch (in red).
- This helps maintain focus and reduces context switching, allowing you to better leverage Sketch Helper recommendations to complete your sketch faster and more efficiently .
- The original Sketch Helper palette has been replaced with a smaller, more interactive palette, returning valuable screen real estate to the user.
- Interacting with Predictive Suggestions is easy and can be done via keyboard shortcuts or by clicking icons on the palette:
    * Accept a suggestion by pressing Enter or clicking the green checkmark.
    * Cycle through alternative suggestions using the comma ( , ) and period ( . ) keys or by clicking the arrow buttons on the palette.
    * Continue designing without interruption by simply drawing, pressing ESC, or clicking the red X.

Improved Tangents
- Supercharged tangent recommendations, whether it’s line-to-arc, line-to-circle, or arc-to-circle (at endpoints or anywhere along the curve).

For a more detailed release notes, please refer to our release notes page (https://www.hestus.co/releasenotes).