Shape Recognition

What?

Drawing on the board and letting ActivInspire turn your drawings into shapes.

Where?

Tools > Shape Recognition

Dual Toolbox

How?

Take your time to draw slowly and clearly. Works for all kinds of shapes, but is particularly useful for things like triangles, squares and circles.

What can I customise?

In the Main Toolbox:

Pen width

Default = Fine line

Change the Pen width with the slider, or select a preset width, to create thicker lines.

 

Colour

Default = Black

Change the colour by selecting another one from the Colour Palette.

 

In the 'User Input' section of Settings:

 

Recognition Timeout

Default = 5

Time interval in seconds before ActivInspire starts to turn your drawing into a shape.

Move the slider to change the timeout to between 0 and 5 seconds.

 

Fill recognised shapes

Default. Recognised shapes are automatically filled with another colour, or with the same colour as the outline (see Fill mode below).

Recognised shapes are drawn in the outline colour but not filled.

 

Fill mode

Only enabled if Fill recognised shapes is selected.

 

Another colour

Default. Fills the shape with a different colour than the outline.

 

Same as the outline

Fills the shape with the same colour as the outline.

 

Another colour

Click to select a Fill colour from the Colour Palette.

Where can I customise it?

  • Main Toolbox

  • Settings > User Input

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