Creating Rectangles

You can create a rectangle.

Before you begin:
See Also
Creating Oriented Rectangles
  1. From the Sketch section of the action bar, click Rectangle .
  2. Locate the first point for the rectangle.

    You can:

    • Click the point's location in the work area.
    • If you want to know where this point must be located, use Tools Palette, which now displays value boxes for defining the point coordinates. These value boxes are:

      • H: horizontal

      • V: vertical

  3. In Tools Palette, enter the coordinates of one of the vertices of the rectangle.


    The Tools Palette now displays two additional value boxes, Width and Height.

  4. Position the diagonally opposite vertex from the first point by specifying the values for the width and height.
    The rectangle is created.

    Note: In this task, we used Tools Palette but you can also create a rectangle manually. To do this, move the pointer to activate SmartPick and click as soon as you get the required coordinates or length.