OpenOffice's "Draw" program...

[capri0mni]

So... I've only tried to play around with this a little bit, and I have a question that OO's help section doesn't seem to answer:

How do you make a Sphreroid?

The instructions say to hold down the shift key while dragging with the cursor. But when I try that, it just makes a regular circle, and when I click on the 3-d icon, it makes a cylander.

Has anyone here made spheres with OpenOffice Draw?

Comments

[pedanther]

This is what worked for me:

Click on little triangle to the right of the 3d icon. You should get a selection of 3d objects: cube, sphere, cylinder, etc. Click on the sphere.
You should do this *before* you try to draw the sphere.

To draw a sphere, click and drag in the appropriate place. While you're dragging, you'll see a wire-frame cube, but it will turn into a sphere when you let go of the mouse button.
To draw a spheroid, hold down shift while you click and drag.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you, muchly. That worked. First though, I had to click on the toolbar menu to get the 3-d button to be visible.

Now, I can have more fun! hee!