Polyarc Draw

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TOOLS

PDraw
VSelect shapes
ASelect anchors
IEyedropper

VIEW

Space+dragPan
Space+scrollZoom
RESET VIEWReset pan and zoom to 100%

DRAWING

ClickPlace anchor
RRotate arc direction
Click near first anchorClose and finish path
Enter or Right-ClickFinish path (open, needs a stroke to be visible)
EscapeCancel path
ShiftSnap arc to 45˚ increments (only when dot grid is off)

SELECT (shapes)

Click shapeSelect
Drag shapeMove
Alt+drag shapeDuplicate and move
Cmd/Ctrl+C/VCopy & paste
Drag corner handleScale
Drag origin handleReposition the origin point
Right-click+dragScale and rotate around the origin
Drag empty canvasMarquee select
Shift+FFlip horizontal
Shift+MFlip vertical
Shift+RRotate 90°
Backspace / DeleteDelete selected
EscapeDeselect

The origin handle appears at the shape's bounding box center when selected. Moving it sets the pivot for right-click scale/rotate.

EYEDROPPER

Right-click shapePick its style (fill, stroke, texture, roundness)
Left-click shapeApply the picked style to it

SELECT (anchors)

Click anchorSelect
Shift+click anchorAdd to / remove from selection
Drag anchorMove selected anchors
Drag empty canvasMarquee select
Arrow keysNudge 1px
Dot Grid + Arrow keysNudge by grid step (20px)
Backspace / DeleteDelete selected anchors
EscapeDeselect

EDIT

Ctrl/Cmd+ZUndo
Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+ZRedo
Ctrl/Cmd+YRedo
Shift+GGroup / Ungroup
GToggle dot grid

FILL & STROKE

Adjust width fieldSet stroke width in px (0 = no stroke)
Right-click paletteSet stroke color
Left-click paletteSet fill color
Toggle ROUNDToggle round line caps and joins
Click dash swatchesSolid, dashed, dotted, or dash-dot
Drag color swatch to shapeApply fill directly
Right-click drag color swatch to shapeApply stroke directly
Drag texture swatch → shapeApply texture fill

Stroke and fill settings apply to both new and currently selected shapes.

FILE & EXPORT

EXPORT PNGDownload the drawing as a PNG image
EXPORT SVGDownload the drawing as an SVG
COPY SVGCopy the SVG markup to the clipboard
NO BGExport with a transparent background
SAVE .arcSave an editable project file
LOAD .arcOpen a saved project file
CLEARRemove all shapes from the canvas

If shapes are selected, the EXPORT functions export only those.

CREDITS

Textures are royalty free from Bakku no Oni - Mapping and Bakku No Oni - Royalty Free Materials for 3D. The color palette is AURORA by Dawnbringer, sourced from Lospec/.

Output license

You can use files you create with Il—Verse for anything (personal, educational, commercial) except those relating to or containing non-fungible tokens ("NFT"), crypto, web3 or blockchain-related projects.

No attribution required, but if you'd like to:
Created with POLYARC DRAW (https://hlnet.neocities.org/polyarc-draw), a tool made by Heikki Lotvonen (https://heikkilotvonen.com)

Output is provided as-is, no warranty.