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Drawing and editing squares and rectangles on plans

Updated over a week ago

The Square Tool adds rectangles and squares to Plans. Squares drawn will not add quantities to Measurements. If quantities are required, please use Length and / or Area Tools.

💡Depending on the screen size, the location of buttons and functionality may be different from that in this article.

Drawing Squares

  1. Click the Shapes Tools

  2. Click the Square Tool

  3. Click and release on one corner, move diagonally
    Hold SHIFT to draw a proportioned Square

  4. Click and release to complete the Square

  5. Repeat for additional Squares

  6. Click Done

Square tool - new ui

Editing Squares

  1. Press ESC

  2. Zoom in and select the square on the plan

    • To move: Click, hold and drag
      To move several items at once, use the select tool

    • To resize squares: Click, hold and drag the blue square boxes
      Hold SHIFT to lock the rotation to 15º angles

    • To rotate: Click, hold and drag the blue dot rotation handle
      Hold SHIFT to lock the rotation to 45º angles

  3. Click actions to:

  4. Click settings to:

    • Change the line colour, line opacity, line style, corner rounding, fill colour, fill opacity %, line width

  5. Click save, to cancel the changes, click cancel

💡To restore a Deleted Square

  • Hold CTRL/Command ⌘ and press Z or

  • Click Undo before leaving the Plan

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