Bantam Tools Draw vs MultiPlot

Bantam Tools Draw is a minimalist iPad drawing app to turns your sketches into Art Machine ready line work. It offers Apple Pencil responsiveness, as well as touch drawing, and SVG export optimized for physical machines to reproduce your art. While most iPad drawing apps focus on blending, shading, and screen-based illustration, often converting strokes into filled shapes, Draw doesn’t. It captures each stroke as a single, clean vector path, exactly what pen plotters need. Whether you're drafting technical diagrams, exploring generative patterns, creating meditative hand-drawn designs, or combining art and engineering with a generation already comfortable drawing on iPads, Draw helps you draw with intention and plot with precision.

MultiPlot is your essential companion for multi-color pen plotter projects. Import SVG artwork, automatically separate paths by stroke color, optimize the plotting sequence to minimize pen changes, and manage your workflow from start to finish. Designed for generative artists and plotter enthusiasts who work with AxiDraw, iDraw, and other pen plotters. MultiPlot solves the tedious problem of managing multi-pen workflows by intelligently grouping and ordering your plot layers. Key Features: SVG Import and Parse — Load SVG files and automatically detect all unique stroke colors. Preview each color layer independently. Color Splitting — Automatically group paths by color into separate plot layers. Each layer represents one pen change. Pen Order Optimization — Minimize pen changes with intelligent path ordering algorithms. Save time during long multi-color plots. Workflow Manager — Step through your plot layer by layer. Mark each layer as plotted, skip layers, or reorder as needed. Project Persistence — Save multiple projects with their SVG data, color splits, and workflow progress. Resume any project anytime. No internet required. No account needed. No data collected. Just you and your plotter. Download MultiPlot and streamline your multi-color plotting today.