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Modular Designing Class 6

About Shape Formatting

You can format shapes in your EDraw drawing by changing any or all of their attributes, such as line
weight and pattern, fill colour and pattern, and text formatting. For example, you might use fill
colour to make a drawing for a slide presentation more effective, or you might use line patterns to
represent specific types of connections between shapes.
The type of formatting you can apply to a shape depends on whether the shape is open or closed .
Open shape: A shape such as a line, arc, or zigzag. You can format an open shape with line patterns
and ends, such as by changing a solid line to a dashed line and adding an arrow to one end.
Closed shape: A shape that is surrounded by a continuous outline, such as a rectangle or circle. You
can fill a closed shape with a colour or a pattern.
For example:
1. You can add fill to closed shapes, such as circles or rectangles, but not to open shapes.
2. You can add line ends to open shapes, such as arcs or zigzag lines, but not to closed shapes.

Open Shape Formatting
For open shapes, such as arcs, you can change:
1. Line ends.
2. Line fill, pattern, cap, weight, colour, and transparency.
3. Shadow, colour, and transparency.

Closed Shape Formatting

For closed shapes, such as rectangles, you can change:
1. Line fill, pattern, weight, colour, and transparency.
2. Fill colour, pattern, and transparency.
3. Shadow fill, colour, pattern, and transparency.

Shape Formatting for Multiple Shapes

You can format several shapes with one-time operation by doing one of the followings:
1. Selecting multiple shapes at the same time.
2. Selecting shapes in a group (group: A shape composed of two or more shapes. You can move
or size groups as a unit but group members retain their original appearance and properties.).

About Style

In EDraw, shape formatting is also called shape style. Shape style includes the following settings:
1. Line fill, pattern, cap, weight, colour, and transparency.
2. Fill colour, pattern, and transparency.
3. Shadow fill, colour, pattern, and transparency.

Note:
Style does not include Text formatting.
Style is the best way to format shapes. By just one click, a couple of new format settings will be
applied to the selected shapes. You can modify the style to change the shapes' formatting or the
default formatting. You can also create your own styles or keep the style you like permanently.
Styles are listed in two tables:

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