Operations on Shapes

ConceptDraw V offers a variety of ways of working with shapes. You can change shape properties, assign text and hyperlinks, rotate and resize shapes and many more.

Selecting
Copying and Pasting
Duplicating
Moving
Rotating and Flipping
Resizing
Reshaping
Changing the Front-to-Back Order
Distributing Shapes
Aligning Shapes
The Join, Combine and Separate Operations
Grouping and Ungrouping
Substituting a Shape with Another Shape
Copying Shape's Visual Attributes
Deleting
Undo and Redo

 


Deleting

You can delete shapes from a document by selecting them and then pressing the Del or Delete key.
The Delete command from the Edit menu has the same effect.

Make sure no handles are selected on the shape (the selected handles appear in magenta). Otherwise, you will  delete the handles instead of the shape.

Note: You can lock shapes to protect them from deleting. In the Protection floating dialog check the From Deletion option. Then the program will respond with a warning message each time you attempt to delete the shape.


Undo and Redo

"Undo"

When creating and editing shapes, mistakes are inevitable. So, you may need to cancel a sequence of recent actions and return the document to its previous correct state. The Undo command can be used for this purpose.

To reverse the last action, click the Undo button on the toolbar, or choose Undo from the Edit menu. The menu always specifies the type of the action that will be undone.

  Ctrl + Z   Cmd + Z

The number of consecutive actions that can be undone is limited. The default value is 30. You can set the desired value for the active document in the Document Properties dialog (File / Document Properties). The higher the number, the more memory the program requires to store the actions.

"Redo"

The Redo operation is inverse to Undo. Use it to reverse the latest Undo operation. Click the Redo button on the toolbar, or select Redo from the Edit menu.

  Ctrl + Y   Cmd + Y