Cartoon Mode
Drawing software designed for stained glass, in lead or copper alike, without a single superfluous tool.
The tools
Get to grips with Diafane in an hour, then stop thinking about it. With a stylus on a tablet as with a mouse, everything is within a finger's reach. No layers to stack, no settings whose purpose nobody knows, no three-level menus: everything to help you stay in the flow.
Import
Nothing you have drawn elsewhere in vector format needs redoing. Whether your files come from Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity or another vector application, they arrive intact and Diafane takes them over: your lines become lead lines and every closed area a piece of glass ready to color.
Tracing
Whether it is a photo taken on site, a pencil sketch or a scanned old cartoon, lay the image under your drawing, set it to scale, straighten it if needed, then draw over it as on a light table.
Symmetry
Halve the work on a symmetrical design (or quarter it!). Rose window, lancet or medallion: set your axes, and what you draw on one side appears on the other instantly. Nothing left to transfer, everything is calculated live and can be edited at any time.
Lead or copper
Whether you assemble with lead or wrap in copper foil, Diafane can calculate everything. Mix, if you wish, several flange widths in the same window, or change the width and finish of your solder, and get the exact shape to cut.
Diafane takes into account heart widths, cutting clearances and the side on which each lead came sits, so that the window comes out at its final size.
Error checking
Never lose a sheet of glass to a drawing flaw again! Whether you prefer to be warned of everything or only of what matters, you set the strictness of the check, and Diafane shows you on the drawing what will go wrong at the cutting stage: a lead line stopped a hair short of its neighbor, an angle too tight or a piece too small to be cut.
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