DrawWell's toolbox is central to the creation of new graphical objects, once you have advanced in your skills you may find that being able to define your own specially configured objects for re-use would be helpful. To achieve this, simply create a document with the lines and shapes you require and turn it into a palette* - see image at top of page. A palette document lets you click and drag its objects onto your page, very useful if you need to create the same kind of specialized objects repeatedly.

DrawWell provides a number of useful shapes as standard, on occasion it may be convenient to convert a shape to a series of line segments. For example using the curve line tool to draw circles is quite challenging, as a shortcut create a circle shape and convert to path**, then select the control handles to make your own lines containing circle arcs

Often in creating drawings you will find that a set of lines and shapes you have drawn go together towards making up a larger shape, for example a number of lines and rectangles used to make up a drawing of a computer. You can imagine that it would be very convenient to be able to treat these objects as a single unit. In fact DrawWell does allow you to do this by providing the "Arrange" ▸ "Group" menu option.

We like to go one step further than you might expect in our software products so our method of grouping distinguishes itself by allowing you to edit objects inside the group without having to go to the trouble of un-grouping it, making edits and then re-grouping again, see image above.

On occasion you may have chosen a shape, applied numerous attributes such as colored fills, outlines and inserted text and imagery only to find that perhaps an altogether different shape would have been more appropriate. One way to tackle this is to create the desired new shape and manually re-apply all the attributes, something of a long winded process. DrawWell offers an alternative; a Morphing inspector! This gives you the power to change any selected shape into another shape while retaining its attributes.

Merging is based around the principle of inserting merge tokens into your document which are later resolved into strings of text (or even images) when the document is "Print Merged...". Good examples of this might be to include page numbering for your multi page documents, modification date, current date/time, printer name, sequences of number. Also user defined values useful for including information which might changes such as name and address when creating letters or product prices etc.

*Turning a document into a palette is easily achieved by selecting "locked" in the document inspector.

**This can be done by selecting "Tools" ▸ "Graphic Conversion" ▸ "Convert to Path" from the menu.