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Creating shapes with the Shape Recognition Pen tool

You can use the Shape Recognition Pen tool to draw circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, triangles and arcs.

Note 

You can also create shapes using the Shapes tool (see Creating shapes with the Shapes tool) or the Regular Polygons tool (see Creating shapes with the Regular Polygons tool).

ClosedTo draw a shape

  1. Press PensPens icon.

    The Pens tool buttons appear.

    Pens tool buttons

  2. Press Pen Types, and then select Shape Recognition Pen.

  3. Draw a shape on the page.

    If SMART Notebook software recognizes your drawing as a circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle or arc, it adds this shape to the page.