Overview of the Toolbox

The Toolbox offers all the tools you need to create, select, and edit paths; as well as navigate around your document, scale and rotate objects, and more. Expression Design offers many more tools than are immediately visible in the Toolbox. These extra tools are contained in tool groups underneath the visible tools. To see them, click and hold the mouse button down on top of any tool that has a marker in its lower-right corner. You can also see the alternate tools by right-clicking a tool.

The Toolbox displaying tool groups

Here is an overview of each tool in the Toolbox (click the name of the tool for more information).

Selection tool

Direct Selection tool

Group Select tool

Lasso Selection tool

Paintbrush tool

Pen tool

Add Anchor Point tool

Delete Anchor Point tool

Convert Anchor Point tool

Polyline tool

B-Spline tool

Rectangle tool

Ellipse tool

Polygon tool

Line tool

Text tool

Fill Transform tool

Gradient Transform tool

Scissors tool

Reverse Path tool

Start Point tool

Color Dropper tool
Attribute Dropper tool

Pan tool

Zoom tool