Mark areas with shapes and cloud

The shape tools let you mark an area, a spotlight a location, or an item in the plan drawing with a square, rectangle, triangle, circle, ellipse, or cloud with a color of your choice and a fill. You can easily resize the shape to match the area to be marked.

• Optional - Choose the required border color, stroke width, and background fill color. See Setup stroke width, color, and background if you need guidance on this.

To add an area markup

• Open the plan to add the markup.
• Tap the shapes tool and choose the shape you want. Available options are Square/rectangle, circle/ellipse, triangle, and cloud. 
• Touch the spot on the plan sheet where you want to add the markup

• Long touch the added shape to reveal the handles at the corners.
• Use the handles to resize the markup to the required size.

You can also use the rectangle/triangle and ellipse markups to measure areas and add them as markups. See below for more details.

To change the stroke color, width, and fill color

• Long press the markup to select it
• Select the Stroke tool and set the color and stroke width  

• Select the 'Fill' tool and set the background fill color and its transparency.

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

• Open the layer editor by touching the icon
• Use the icon to show or hide the layer
• Tap the ellipses button to open the edit options.
• Select 'Copy' to clone the element. See Edit markup layers for more details.
• Select 'Delete' 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 guidance.  

Add length/area measurements

Prerequisite:
Calibrate the ruler tool for the marked rectangles/ellipses to calculate the areas covered by them. See Add length measurements if you need guidance on this.

• Create a rectangle, ellipse or triangle markup covering the required area on the drawing
• Double-tap the markup to reveal the options and select the dimension to be shown on the markup
• Repeat the process to show the other dimensions

• Alternatively, open the layer editor by clicking the layers button
• Expand the group containing the rectangle, circle/ellipse or triangle markup

Tip:
If the markup is a part of the currently created group, the group is named 'Draft.'

• Use the toggle switches in the menu to view the respective values on the markup.  

The values are shown in feet/inches as the ruler is calibrated. 

The available options are: 

Square/Rectangle

• Area
• Length
• Breadth

Round/Ellipse

• Area

Triangle

• Area

Long press the markup and use the handles to resize it to measure unknown areas or lengths.