xTool Creative Space

The latest update to the 2.0 version is not user intuitive. The previous version was decent and made good usage of the screen space for an app. Currently, it is not easy to build projects from scratch or choose what you want the laser to do (cut/engrave/score).

Everything I try to do on this app won’t work. It’s already bad enough that it won’t connect to the machine over Wi-Fi regardless of what I do, or over USB. But now I’m trying to paste a paragraph instead of type it out and nothing happens. I’ve manually gone into my settings to allow paste in the app, and I’ve tested copy and paste everywhere else on my device and it works fine. this is an absolute pain and ends up being more trouble than it’s worth, just use the desktop app.

Took me three times as long to edit a plaque because you would edit for five minutes and it would glitch and shut the app down and you had to restart. Everything took me almost a day to do something that should’ve took me only 30 minutes with the old app.

Major features were added however some of the most useful features were removed with no alternative available. Example: There is no way to hide a layer. This feature was integral in my design flow and now it is gone.

The iPad app was almost at feature parity with the desktop version. With the most recent v2 release supporting their new F1 Ultra device, they completely reworked the UI, cluttered with nameless icon buttons with no tool tips, forcing you to trial and error your way through things. It now takes three or four clicks to make settings changes where it used to take one or two. Worse, we lost marking completely. Now we’re forced to just muddle through the old way of nudging our objects or materials around running and re-running framing until dialed in. Such a time waste. This “easy panel” thing is collapsed/hidden by default which just adds to the confusion. I yearn for the cleaner, simpler, yet functional UI from the prior version. This should not have been released without MUCH more community testing and input.

Let’s be honest, this was a barely usable software before, but now however, it’s completely destroyed. Any old file before this update is now completely useless. Everything is either corrupted or has completely lost all the layers. The settings are now setup up perfectly for a child that eats glue. They added nothing accept rearranging things that were already terrible. Communication with the actual device has now gotten so hard, I could contact a “Tech support” agent in India easier than connecting to my laser. I’m begging to know who the software engineer on this update is. Has he ever used a computer? Is he living in a cage in Iraq? Please, for the love of god, how did you make this so much worse?

The most recent update is ridiculously incompatible with use on an IPAD. I’m getting a laptop and then dumping your software completely.

The new update seems to make it slightly faster to engraving and it will be a learning curve but I like the use of the preview so it can be easier to follow. Issue: clicking the side button that was used for framing the last time just does endless rotation and doesn’t frame anymore. You have to push the frame button on the screen.I am also not a fan of the new way to set up the setting for engraving. They changed it around and I have to hunt for the inns.

Don’t bother with the android version, its nowhere near the PC one. Now on the IPad you will get the closest to the PC version as you can get but there are limitations. First don’t expect to use a connected physical keyboard to do anything more than type. For example moving objects using arrow keys, undo etc. They will not work. So you have to rely on your steady fingers when moving stuff. Also the tracing algorithm is not very intuitive compare to something like Lightburn. Even the simplest three color images it has a problem with. Maybe in the following updates this will get better but i find myself having to edit certain things in lightburn then bringing it over to Creative space. Hope this changes soon.

Would be great if the app would have the option to export as an svg.