Drawing and Dragging Elements

You can create elements such as lines, curves, circles, squares, and so on. You can combine these elements to create complex drawings of all the equipment in your manufacturing environment.

After you draw an element, you can modify its properties. For more information about modifying properties, see Editing Element Properties.

Regardless of the kind of element you are drawing, drawing each kind of element is very similar.

After you draw an element, the pointer tool is selected again by default. To draw multiple elements of the same type, double-click the element in the Tools panel. It remains selected after you draw your first element of that type. You can press the ESC key to return to the pointer tool again.

If you draw or drag an element outside of the visible canvas area to the right or bottom, horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars appear but the visible area does not follow the mouse. You can later use the scroll bars to scroll the canvas and see the element you drew or moved.

Related Topics

Working with Graphic Elements

Drawing Rectangles, Rounded Rectangles, Ellipses, and Lines

Drawing Polylines, Polygons, Curves, and Closed Curves

Drawing 2-Point Arcs, 2-Point Pies and 2-Point Chords

Drawing 3-Point Arcs, 3-Point Pies, and 3-Point Chords

Placing and Importing Images

Drawing Buttons

Placing Text

Drawing Text Boxes

Drawing Status Elements

Drawing User Interface Common Controls

Dragging Elements