Ellipses and Circles

You can create an ellipse or circle by using the Ellipse tool.

To create an ellipse click and drag the mouse from one corner to the other of a rectangle into which the ellipse will be drawn. If the shift key is held down while doing this a perfect circle can be created. If the Ctrl key is held down then the initial click position will be the centre of the ellipse instead of one corner. The line type, line thickness, line colour, and shape fill colour will be set to the current settings.

The edit window for the Line , Arrow , Item and Ellipse Items simply allow you to edit their geometry (e.g. as can be seen in the image on the right for an Ellipse ).