About Sketching Assistant

The creation of a symbol may involve relations between two geometrical entities such as perpendicularity, coincidence or tangency. Thanks to the sketching assistant, you can visualize these relations to create your symbol with precision.

This page discusses:

Coincidence

Every time the position of your pointer coincides with a point of a geometrical entity, the following symbol appears.

Example:

Center and Ends of a Geometry

Every time you pause your pointer over the center of circle/ellipse or over the ends of an arc or a line, this symbol appears.

Example 1: center of a circle

Example 2: the end of an arc

Junction of Two Segments

You can identify the junction of two segments of a geometrical entity through this symbol .

Example 1: junction of a rectangle's segments

Example 2: junction of polyline's segments

Parallelism and Tangency

You can draw two parallel segments or a circle/ellipse's tangent. This symbol indicates the parallelism or the tangency between two geometrical entities.

Example 1: parallel segments

Example 2: tangent of a circle

Perpendicularity

You can draw a segment perpendicular to a polyline segment or to a rectangle segment. The perpendicularity is signaled by this symbol .

Example: perpendicularity between two segments