Mark areas

The shape tools let you mark an area, a spot, or an item in the plan drawing with a square, rectangle, circle, ellipse, or triangle. You can easily resize and rotate the shape to match the area to be marked.

Tip:
1. Areas of irregular shapes can be highlighted with a polygonal markup. See Mark an Area with Polygon for more details.
2. You can also use the 'Cloud' markup to spotlight an area on the plan sheet. See Mark an Area with Cloud Shape for more details.

To add an area markup

• Open the plan to add the markup.
• Choose the border color, stroke width, and background fill color as required. See Setup stroke width and color if you need guidance on this.
• Click the 'Shapes' tool on the toolbar
• Choose the square, circle, or triangle markup tool
  • Square - Make a square or rectangular box markup
  • Circle - Make a round or ellipse markup
  • Triangle - Use a triangle to mark an area

• Click on the location of the drawing where you want to place the shape.
• Click on the box/circle/triangle and drag it to the precise location you want to markup.
• Click and drag the handles at the corners and sides to resize the element.

The markup is added with the color, stroke width, and fill, with default settings or as set in the 'Stroke' tool and the 'Fill' tool. You can change them as required.

Tip: If you have calibrated the ruler, you can see the area and length measurements of your rectangle, square, circle, or triangle markup by clicking inside and selecting the area markup. Alternatively, you can view their dimensions in the layer editor. See how to calibrate a ruler here.

To change the stroke color, width and fill color 

• Click on the markup to select it
• Click the 'Stroke' tool
• Choose the color from the palate
  • Alternatively, use the color picker at the bottom right to choose a custom color.
• Size - Use the slider to set up the brush width for the markup
• Fill color:
• Click the 'Fill' tool
• Choose the color from the palate
  • Alternatively, use the color picker at the bottom right to choose a custom color
  • Opacity - Use the slider to set up the transparency of the color fill

Your selection takes effect on the currently selected markup and is auto-saved for your next markup tool.

The markup element adds as a layer to the 'Draft' group. It is shown in the layer editor on the left.

• Use the icon to show or hide the layer
• Click the icon to remove an element added by mistake
• Go to the next tool if you want to add more markup elements.
• Once you are done with the markup elements, save the layer group as markup. See Publish Markups for more details.