With this function you can describe fundamental shapes and insert them into the drawing as closed polylines.

The dynamic preview of the outline is situated at the top left in the dialog box.

Opens the Dialog box Assign Layer. You will find further information on this in the Chapter Layer assignment.

Opens the Dialog box Assign hatch pattern. You will find further information on this in the Chapter Hatch pattern assignment.

In this dialog box section you specify the initial shape of the outline.

Area 1, 10, 100, 1000
Provides separate storage areas for the described parameters of a basic shape. Each section is initialized as standard with its correspondingly specified size. The magnitude of the values in the sections is not though prescribed.

Filter
The button Filter opens the Dialog box Filter outlines in which you can restrict the selection in the list of outlines.

List of outlines
The pull-down list shows you all available shapes from which you can choose one.

Material
Opens the Dialog box Material selection, where you can select a material. You will find further information on materials in Chapters Material and Material selection.

In this dialog box section you can adapt the insertion point of the outline. You enter positive or negative values according to your required displacement. The displacement of the base point is retained for each basic shape.

In this dialog box section you can adapt the selected basic shape via your descriptive parameters. Each shape has its own extent of parameters. With some basic shapes the parameter designations in the dialog box section are buttons which permit optionally different descriptions. These buttons are visually highlighted for identification.

When you click OK, the dialog box is closed and the following appears:

This dialog box is also called by other parts of the program. Therefore it is not always essential to insert the described outline into the drawing. Where applicable, you are returned to the original dialog box.