As a fall back you can group the rectangles and place them in a repository Dia. Then you can copy and paste the grouped shapes between Dia just as you can within a Dia.
Of course you miss out on having them neatly organized in a sheet/palette as you would have by converting them to shapes and making sheets On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Matthew Lamberson <mlamb...@comcast.net>wrote: > I need to draw very simple schematics for 5th grade kids in an > extracurricular Electronics class. Powerpoint isn’t cutting it, so I > stumbled on your software while searching the internet. It seems like it > will do everything I want, but I need to save some custom shapes like a > battery (simply 2 rectangles), light bulb, etc. baut cant seem to figure it > out. Can this be done? Any info you can give would be appreciated.**** > > ** ** > > Matt Lamberson**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > dia-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > > -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com>
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