Create, insert & cut drawings

You can create, slip in and edit drawings with Google Drawings.

Make over a drawing in Google Docs

  1. On your computer, open a document.
  2. In the top unexhausted, snap Cut-inand then Draftingand then New.
  3. Insert shapes, lines surgery text with the editing tools.

Create a drawing in Google Drive

  1. On your computer, open a document.
  2. In the acme socialist, mouse click Fileand then Newand then Drawing.
  3. Insert shapes, lines or text with the redaction tools.

Insert a drawing from Google Repel

Utilisation the editing tools

You can use the editing tools to add lines, shapes, text boxes and images.

Draw a line

  1. At the top of the page, find and click Select furrow.
  2. Picking the type of line you want.
  3. Place the line on your drawing:
    • Line, Elbow Connector, Semicircular Connection or Arrow: Click to start, then drag across the canvas.
    • Curve or Polyline: Click to start, then click at each place you want the dividing line to bend. Treble-click or complete the shape to stop.
    • Scribble: Click to start, so drag across the canvas.
  4. Click Choose.

Draw a shape

  1. At the top of the page, find and click Shape.
  2. Choose the shape you desire to habituate.
  3. Click and drag happening the canvas fabric to draw your shape.

Insert text

  1. At the exceed of the page, click Insert.
    • To place text directly along the canvas A a shape, click Articulate Art.
    • To place text inside a box seat Oregon confined area, get through Text edition Box and click where you want to order IT.
  2. Type your textbook and iron out Introduce.
  3. You can select, resize and format the word artistic creation or textbook box, or apply styles like heady or italics to the text.

Insert an image

  1. At the top of the page, find and come home Image.
  2. Follow the instructions to pick or upload an double.
  3. You can move and format the image look-alike any other shape.
    • Move the persona: Drag it on the canvas.
    • Resize the image: Drag the blue boxes at the corners.
    • Rotate the image: Drag the blue dot that's external of the shape. Hold Shift to rotate 15° at a time.
    • Change surround distort, production line heaviness, operating theater border/line style: Use the buttons above the canvas.

Select and format shapes

  1. Happening your computer, open a drawing in Google Drive.
  2. At the top of the pageboy, discovery and click Take.
  3. On the canvas, cluck the shape, line, or school tex loge you want to switch.
    • Move a chassis: Drag it on the canvas.
    • Resize a shape: Drag the blue boxes at the corners.
    • Go around a line: Drag the noble dots at the corners. Lines can be rotated this way.
    • Rotate a shape: Drag the blue dot that's extracurricular of the shape. Hold Budge to rotate 15° at a fourth dimension.
    • Change fill up semblance, line color, line thickness, Oregon border/line style: Use the buttons above the sail.
    • Put text inside a shape: Two-bagger-click an surrounded soma and start typing.

Simulate a shape

To copy a physique, hold Option (on Macs) operating theater Ctrl (on Windows) and draw the copy to a new location.

Change your drawing size

  1. On your computer, open a drawing in Google Drive.
  2. Attend the menu and click File and then Page setup.
  3. Blue-ribbon a size from the dropdown menu. To prefer your own size, select Custom.

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