Drawing Shapes Using Floating Tools




You can use the Shape Recognition tool in the Floating Tools toolbar to draw circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, triangles and arcs.

NOTE: Alternatively, use the Shape Floating Tool to add shapes, including common geometric shapes.




To draw a shape with Floating Tools

NOTE: The Shape Recognition button is not included in the default Floating Tools toolbar. However, you can customise the Floating Tools toolbar by adding and removing tools. For the following steps, the Floating Tools toolbar must include a Shape Recognition button.

  1. Press Shape RecognitionFTShapeRecognition.png in the Floating Tools toolbar.

  2. Draw a shape on the interactive screen.




If Floating Tools recognises your drawing as a circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle or arc, it replaces your drawing with the shape.

ShapeRecognitionExample.png




SMART Notebook recognises the drawing as a
triangle and replaces your drawing with a triangle.

  1. When you have finished drawing, press Select FTSelect.pngin the Floating Tools toolbar. Otherwise, SMART Notebook continues to draw shapes when you press the screen.

NOTES

If a program is Ink Aware (that is, it's integrated with SMART Notebook), whatever you write or draw on the interactive product becomes a component of the program file. You can save your changes by saving the file.

If a program is non-Aware, whatever you write or draw on the interactive product appears on a transparent layer over the current program. You can take a screen capture of your notes and the program at any time. Each screen capture appears as an image in a .notebook file.




To customise the Shape Recognition floating tool

  1. Press Shape RecognitionIconShapeRecognition.png in the Floating Tools toolbar and then press Customise FTCustomizeTool.png.




The Properties dialogue box appears.

  1. Select the colour, thickness, style and line endings.

  2. Press Save Tool Properties.