Workspace and Program Interface

The Tools Panel

Tools in the Tools panel are used to select, create and manipulate objects. Some tools have additional options that can be displayed in the Control panel.

Tools in the panel can be arranged in one or two columns. Clicking on a small triangle in the top left corner of the panel switches from one mode to another. You can customize the workspace so that all panels, including the Tools panel, are attached to the main window. In this mode, the panel can arrange tools in one or two columns automatically depending on the main window size.

To activate a tool, click on its icon in the panel.

- Move Tool: selects, moves and resizes objects

- Selection Tool: selects and manipulates path elements

- Lasso Tool: selects entire objects, anchor points or path segments by outlining them

- Pen Tool: creates paths with curves or straight lines

- Draw Tool: draws freehand lines

- Path Width Tool: creates strokes with variable widths

- Gradient Tool: adds and adjusts gradients

- Text Tool: adds text boxes and activates the text editing mode

- Knife Tool: cuts paths or objects

- Scissors Tool: cuts paths at selected anchor points

- Eraser Tool: erases portions of paths of objects

- Fusion Tool: removes segments and merges shapes

- Eyedropper Tool: copies appearance attributes from one object to another

- Zoom Tool: zooms in or out of the canvas

- Free Transform Tool: moves, rotates, scales or skews objects

- Rectangle Tool: creates rectangles

- Rounded Rectangle Tool: creates rectangles with rounded corners

- Ellipse Tool: creates ellipses

- Polygon Tool: creates polygons with a customizable number of sides

- Star Tool: creates stars with a customizable number of points

- Line Tool: draws straight lines

- Arc Tool: creates arcs

- Sheets Tool: adds or deletes sheets and adjusts their size and position