Getting Started Guide

Special effects
With Draw, you can apply many special effects to objects and groups of
objects. This section describes a few of these effects. Others include
distorting, shadows, and transparency. See the Draw Guide for
examples of the many effects available.
Flip an object
Select an object and click on the Flip icon . You will
see a dashed line through the middle of the object.
This dashed line is the axis of symmetry. The object
will be reflected about this line. Move one or both
ends of the line with your mouse to set the axis.
Then, grab any one of the eight green handles and
move it across to the other side of the dashed line.
The new position of the figure is shown dashed until
the mouse is released.
Note
If you hold down the Shift key while moving the line, the line will
rotate in 45-degree increments.
Mirror copies
Officially, this useful command does not (yet) exist in Draw. It can,
however, be easily emulated.
Move the axis of symmetry to the desired location of the mirror axis.
Copy the object to the clipboard. Flip the object, then click on an
empty area of the Draw screen in order to deselect the object. Paste
from the clipboard to put a copy of the object in its original location
and now you have a mirror copy.
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