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Za1ah
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May 5, 2020
Question

My rectangle tool will not let me draw rectangles

  • May 5, 2020
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  1. Everytime I click on the rectangle tool, it won't let me draw. 
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    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 5, 2020

    I saw you mentioned that you were drawing white lines.

    If you have the 24.1.x version you will have the real-time drawing feature.

    When you draw with white strokes, and or white fills, you will see nothing while drawing when in the View menu Show Edges an Show Bounding box are turned off.

    When finished drawing you will see nothing when you draw with white on a white background.

    Draw wth a colour to see what you are drawing.

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    Za1ahAuthor
    Participant
    May 5, 2020

    Tool selected and it's drawing white lines...

    Charu Rajput
    Community Expert
    Charu RajputCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 5, 2020

    Hi,

    Please check Fill Color/ Stroke Color, it may be set as NONE or White, which may be not visible.

     

    Thanks

    Best regards
    Charu Rajput
    Community Expert
    Charu RajputCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 5, 2020

    Hi,

    Make sure your layer is not locked or invisible on which you are trying to draw.

     

    See similar post here.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/can-t-draw-a-new-object-in-my-document/m-p/11107182?page=1#M175687

     

    Hope this helps you.

    Thanks

    Best regards
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