Shearing Objects

The Shear tool simultaneously skews all of the vertices of a rectangle, polygon, circles, ovals, or polyline, using a fixed point on the drawing as a point of reference. It is like placing a thumbtack on one point of an object, or the drawing, and reshaping every other object point except the one tacked down. The Shear tool can be used to fake a 3D perspective.

 

To shear an object:

1.	Select the object or objects to change.

2.	Click the Shear tool from the Basic palette.

3.	Click on the point in the drawing to tack down.

4.	Click on the object and drag the resize cursor to shear the object. A preview object displays.

5.	Click to set the shear position.