Create Custom Shapes and Libraries
Standardize designs, speed up proposals, and ensure accuracy with reusable custom symbols.
SmartDraw includes thousands of built-in symbols, but when you need something truly custom, you can create your own. Import images for your product catalog, draw custom shapes from scratch, and organize everything into shared libraries your entire team can use.
With SmartDraw, you can turn your real products into reusable, data-rich symbols. You can import your product images, set their scale, and even add shape data. This lets you create a custom library anyone on your team can use. This is perfect for construction, security layouts, facilities planning, and professional proposals and estimates.
You can be confident that every proposal will use approved products with consistent dimensions and that important data is shared during handoffs.
You can also create custom shapes directly inside SmartDraw using built-in drawing tools. Use polygon lines or connect straight and curved segments to create precise, editable shapes.
Once a shape is created, you can adjust individual sides and angles, change colors, fills, and outlines, and resize and rotate your symbol like any built-in symbol.
You can easily design custom furniture, landscape features, pools, equipment or anything unique for your space.
Whether imported or drawn, you can organize custom shapes into your own custom library for easy access.
If your organization has a SmartDraw Enterprise License, you can share any custom library across your entire organization so everyone works from the same approved set of shapes.
Create designs faster with consistent visuals across every proposal plan. Stop worrying about anyone using outdated and incorrect symbols.