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Lesson 1 of 23

A tour of VETRATA Studio

The four tabs, the menus, the tools and the bars around the drawing: where everything lives.

5 steps2 minChecked against the Studio on 17 October 2026
VETRATA Studio with the Sunwheel window open in the Draw tab: the tool rail down the left, the pattern in the middle, the Inspector on the right and the glass bar under the drawing.
1 of 5 Four tabs, one pattern Across the top are the Studio's four workspaces.

VETRATA Studio runs in your browser, with nothing to install and no account to make. Everything it does sits in one window, arranged around the pattern you are drawing.

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    Four tabs, one pattern

    Across the top are the Studio's four workspaces. Draw is for the leadwork, Glass for choosing a glass for every piece, Plan for the numbered pattern plan and its colour key, and Preview for the finished panel in light.

    All four work on the same pattern, so a lead you move in Draw has moved in the Plan and the Preview too.

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    The menus

    File starts, opens and saves patterns. Edit holds undo, copy and paste. Create adds motifs and lettering, imports SVG and DXF drawings, and places a tracing image. Export makes the cutting PDF, the plan and files for cutting machines. View sets the grid, rulers, guides and snapping.

    The Vetrata menu has these tutorials, the keyboard shortcuts and the pattern shop.

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    The tool rail

    Down the left edge are the drawing tools, in groups: selecting and editing, building the leadwork, shapes and detail, glazing, and measuring.

    Point at a tool to see its name, its key and what it does. A small mark in a tool's corner means it has other forms: hold the button, or right-click it, to choose one.

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    The Inspector

    On the right, the Inspector shows what you are working on. With nothing selected it describes the pattern: its name, size, number of pieces and lead lines, how the pieces are numbered, and its layers.

    Select something and it shows that instead: its position and size, and the commands that act on it.

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    The glass bar and the status bar

    Under the drawing, the glass bar holds the glasses in this pattern, each with the number of pieces it is on.

    Along the bottom, the status bar counts the pieces, sets the zoom, says whether anything in the pattern is worth checking and when it was last saved, and spells out what the tool in your hand does.

    Tip Lost? Press CtrlK and type what you want to do. Find a command searches every command in the Studio.

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