The first twobuttons on the right of the screen show the current fill and line colours. The default settings are a white fill and a black line. The settings are used for any shapes that you draw. You can change the settings as shown in the links below. The third button is for a gradient fill.
The selected button is shown with a pale blue highlight. Clicking on a selected button will deselect it and "fold up" the panel. This can be useful to maximize the space in the right toolbar.
Click on the fill button to show this panel. Set the colour by clicking on one of the colours in the palette. If you don't want a fill, choose the top left square with the cross.
The slider sets the opacity of the fill colour. Reducing the opacity makes the fill increasing transparent. The new colour is applied to any selected shapes. |
Click on the line button to show this panel. Set the colour by clicking on one of the colours in the palette. If you don't want a line, choose the top left square with the cross. The slider sets the opacity of the line colour. Reducing the opacity makes the line increasing transparent. The second slider set the width of the line from 0.1mm to 10mm. Fine lines
The check box allows you to draw thin lines with a width from 0.01mm to 0.1mm. You will need to zoom in to see the thinnest lines clearly. There is a choice of line styles. Selecting a dash style shows two boxes
The first box set the length of the dash (in pixels) and the second set the space between the dashes (in pixels). The third option draws a centre line pattern. 4 pixels = approximately 1 mm The new settings are applied to any selected shapes. |
 If you can't find the colour you want in the palette, click this button to show a popup colour dialog. By dragging on the large box and the vertical bar on the right, you can create any colour you want. Click the Apply button. If the "Fill" tab is selected the new colour applied to the fill colour otherwise it is applied to line colour. The new settings are applied to any selected shapes. |
This tool allows you to select colour from the drawing area. Click on any part of the shape to pick up the colour(solid fills only).
If the "Fill" tab is selected the new colour applied to the fill colour otherwise it is applied to line colour.
This tool is on the left toolbar. Select the tool and then click on any shape in the drawing area. The fill colour is updated to the current fill colour as shown in the palette on the right.
If the shape has no fill, then you must click on the outline of the shape.
If the shift key is held down, the current line colour is applied to the shapes outline.