But their placement - the far right end of the control bar - is the same in all systems.)Īnother possibility is that you have turned the fill and/or stroke off completely. (Note that icons may look different on different systems. The 3D Box tool doesn't have a default button. Which is on the right end of the control bar. To return the shape to it's default, for Star and Spiral tools, click this button

They are tiny squares, circles, and diamond shapes. The handles appear when the shape tool is enabled, and the object is selected. ) and it's drawing something, but not what you want, chances are that the last time you used it, you moved one or more of the handles that control it's shape.

If the non-working tool is a shape tool (Rectangle

Also in Layers dialog, make sure the eye icon is open.

Check Opacity slider for each layer (all the way to right, 100%) Layers menu > Layers opens the Layers dialog.

Layers can be made transparent as well.Fill and Stroke dialog at the bottom, the Opacity slider should be all the way to the right, with a value of 100%.Object menu > Fill and Stroke (called Fill and Stroke dialog) on both the Fill tab and Stroke Paint tab, look at the A: slider (alpha) which should be all the way to the right, with a value of 255.There are a few places to control transparency: Usually we find that someone has made an object transparent, and thus, the next object they draw with that tool will also be transparent. What To Do When Tools Are Drawing Invisible Objects (or No Longer Working as Before)īy default, whenever you draw a new object with Inkscape, that object takes the style (color, stroke width, transparency, etc.) of the object which was last drawn with that tool.

Color drawing inkscape