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Draw a circle or ellipse

Reference1 min readUpdated July 2026

The Circle annotate tool draws an ellipse - a fast way to highlight a single device or a small cluster without the hard corners of a box.

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Open + Add, pick Circle, and drag on the canvas. Like Box, it's a real shape with its own colour, fill and stroke controls in the Inspector.

Step 1: Draw a circle or ellipse

Circle behaves exactly like Box in every other respect - same style panel, same right-click layering (bring to front / send to back), same delete/duplicate shortcuts. See "Style shapes: colours, borders and opacity" for the full styling panel.