Worksheet Crafter User Manual
Worksheet Crafter comes with an extensive set of shapes such as lines, arrows, bows, rectangles, circles, triangles, fraction pies and more.
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The Fraction Pie, the Curved Line and the Curved Arrow are available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2016.3 or newer. The other shapes are available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2016.1 or newer. Learn more. |
Creating a new Shape
The item bar on the left side of the application provides the list of available shapes:
The shapes offer a flexible creation method: first select your shape in the item bar by clicking on it with the left mouse button. Next click on the worksheet and span the shape while keeping the left mouse button pressed. This way you can specify the width and height of the shape during the creation process already.
Line Color and Thickness
For each shape you can configure the color and thickness of the lines. You will find all these properties in the property editor at the right side of the application while the shape is selected.
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Background patterns are available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2016.3 or newer. Learn more. |
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Linings (graph paper) is available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2025.2 or newer. Learn more. |
For some shapes you can additionally configure a background color, pattern or lining. Worksheet Crafter comes with plenty of professionally designed background patterns and a number of graph paper linings for this purpose.
To use the background patterns, first set the Fill Style property to Pattern and then choose a pattern via the Texture property:
The texture scale specifies how often the pattern repeats in the shape.
To use graph paper lining, first set the Fill Style property to Lining and then choose a graph paper option via the Lining property:
Note: the optional hand drawing rendering style does not apply to filled patterns.
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Note: For the lining fill style it may look on screen as if there are lines missing, depending on the display and zoom level. However, in print everything will look fine. |
Drag Handles
Some shapes offer yellow or green drag handles inside the view. You can grab these handles with your mouse and move them around in order to interactively modify the visual appearance of the shape. For example, the rounded rectangle allows you to configure the radius via such a drag handle.
Curves Lines and Arrows
Curve lines and arrows provide a special kind of drag handle. This drag handle influences both the curviness of the line and the direction of the arrows:
The end points of lines and curves automatically snap on to other line and curve end points when moving them. This allows you to easily create connected lines. If you want to avoid snapping hold the ALT key while moving.
The math grid item also defines all grid points as snapping point. Lines and curves snap at the grid to make positioning quite easy:
Properties
There is a whole lot of different properties available for shapes in the Item tab of the Property Editor. Also note the Shape tab of the Property Editor.
Shared Properties for all Shapes
Position |
Move the shape into the foreground or background. Use this to move shapes in front of or behind text or images or to control the order of overlapping shapes. |
Line Thickness |
Set the line thickness. |
Line Color |
Select the line color. |
Line Style |
Choose between drawn through, dashed and dotted. |
Line Properties
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These settings available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2025.2 or newer. Learn more. |
Mark start |
Mark the line start with a bar. The marking is moved slightly to the inside, so the line length can be measured from outer edge to outer edge. If the ruler lines are also visible, you will see a small offset between the marking and the first ruler line. |
Mark end |
Mark the line end with a bar. The marking is moved slightly to the inside, so the line length can be measured from outer edge to outer edge. If the ruler lines are also visible, you will see a small offset between the marking and the last ruler line. |
Ruler |
Select this to show ruler lines. |
Ruler only below |
Visible when Ruler is selected. Enable to show ruler lines only under the line (the line may be rotated in the Shape properties). |
Ruler with mm scale |
Visible when Ruler is selected. Show smaller mm lines in addition to the cm lines. |
Properties of Arrows and Curved Arrows
Arrow size |
Set the arrow (head) size. |
Two way arrow |
Draw arrows on both ends of the line. |
Properties of Areal Shapes
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Linings (graph paper) is available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2025.2 or newer. Learn more. |
Fill Style |
Choose between None, Single Color, Pattern and Lining. Based on this setting further properties will show. |
Fill Color |
Visible for Fill Style Single Color. Select the fill color. |
Texture |
Visible for Fill Style Pattern. Choose from a variety of different textures to fill the form. |
Texture scale |
Visible for Fill Style Pattern. Set the scale for rendering the texture |
Show as grayscale |
Visible for Fill Style Pattern. Replace the texture color with grayscale. |
Lining |
Visible for Fill Style Lining. Choose from different graph paper options. |
Properties of Rectangles, Rounded Rectangles, Rhombuses, Polygons and Stars
Quadratic |
Force quadratic shape extend. |
Ellipse Properties
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The Mark center setting is available in the Premium Edition and Unlimited Edition 2025.2 or newer. Learn more. |
Circular |
Make the ellipse circular. |
Mark center |
Mark the center with a cross. |
Polygon Properties
Number of corners |
Defines the polygon shape. Select between 5 and 15 corners. |
Star Shape Properties
Number of corners |
Define how many points the star has (between 3 and 35 points). |
Fraction Pie Properties
Number of segments |
Select the number of segments from between 2 and 50. |
Filled segments |
Choose how many segments are filled. |
