Ellipse Tool Properties

The Ellipse tool allows you to quickly draw an ellipse or a circle.

  1. In the Tools toolbar, select the Ellipse tool.

    2. The tool's properties are displayed in the Tool Properties view.

Shape Tool Properties View - Rectangle

NOTE To learn how to use the Ellipse tool, see About Shape Tools.

Pencil Properties

Just like other shape tools, this tool creates pencil lines. Hence, its tool properties are similar to the ones of the Pencil tool and it can be used with pencil presets.

Property Description
Preview Area

The Preview area lets you see a preview of the stroke your drawing tool will make.

Preview Stroke

Size

Defines the width of the pencil line used to draw the shape.

Pencil Presets

These options allow you to select, create and manage pencil presets.

Icon Property Description
  Presets list

Harmony provides a few pencil presets and also lets you create and save your own. It is a good idea to create and save pencils with precise sizes and parameters when you draw for efficiency and consistency.

You can export the pencil presets that you have created and import those that others have created. This is a good way for you and project collaborators to keep a consistent look for the project.
New Brush Preset

Creates a new preset based on the current tool properties.

Delete Brush Preset

Deletes the currently selected preset.
Brush Presets Menu

Open a menu that contains the following options:

  • New Brush Preset: Creates a new preset based on the current tool properties.
  • Delete Brush: Deletes the currently selected preset.
  • Rename Brush: Allows you to rename the currently selected preset.
  • Import Brushes: Allows you to import brush presets exported from Harmony.
  • Export Brushes: Allows you to export your brush presets into an .xml file.
  • Small Thumbnail: Displays presets in a grid of small thumbnails with a preview of their tip.
  • Large Thumbnail: Displays presets in a grid of big thumbnails, with their name and a preview of their tip.
  • Stroke View: Displays presets in a list, with their name and a preview of a stroke done with each preset.

Drawing Options

These options affect the way your shape is added to your artwork.

Icon Property Description
Draw Behind

When enabled, your brush strokes will appear behind the existing artwork.

NOTE Your brush stroke will temporarily appear over your artwork as you draw it, until you release the mouse cursor or tablet pen.
Auto Fill

When enabled, the shape you draw is automatically filled with the selected colour. By default, drawing a shape only creates its outlines.

Snap to Contour

When enabled, while you're drawing, the mouse cursor will snap to the nearby contours of the artwork in your drawing.

Snap and Align

When enabled, while you're drawing, the mouse cursor will automatically align to the rectangular bounding boxes of other strokes and shapes in your drawing.
Snap to Grid

When enabled, while you're drawing, the mouse cursor will snap against the intersecting points of the grid.

TIP To display the grid, select View > Grid > Show Grid from the top menu or press Ctrl + '.

Auto Flatten Mode

By default, when drawing, each new stroke is created as a separate drawing object, which can be edited independently from other parts of the artwork. When enabled, the Auto-Flatten option automatically merges strokes into existing artwork.

NOTE

Using the Select tool, you can use select and remove a segment of flattened pencil lines. Overlapping pencil lines drawn with the Auto-Flatten mode are essentially cut into segments by the overlap and can be treated as individual lines.