tool for circles & squares?

[signman]

Maybe my brain is frozen today...I cannot for the life of me find the tool to click on to drag and make perfect circles, squares, boxes in Design Shop and I know it's got to be in there somewhere...I remember doing those in class!
Trying to get this 'tree' logo done and it's killing me. I need to draw a perfect oval for an outline and fill (like a patch).
Vectorizing the trees I found (used that Stanford U. website free vectoring-what a disaster. Set it for only a couple colors and it still broke up every butt color area into dozens of little snippets of color-so it is impossible to auto digitize any of it)
Help! Someone tell me where that tool went?
I found that 'combine' tool talked about last week-and it took so long just to join two small elements I gave up and just manually drew the entire outline in a matter of seconds-using that tool would have meant probably 2-3 hours of 'click, shift, click, shift, combine, etc. over and over'.

Roland

[Mr. Sew & Sew]

Roland - I'm at my day job now watching the stock market crash yet again, but off the top of my head, why don't you get the shapes from Dakota? I use their circes, ovals, squares, etc all the time when I need a perfect shape. Resize it, change the density and off I go. I'm no expert, but that's how I get simple shapes in my designs.

Good Luck
Tom

[Body Cover]

It seems to me like you just hold down the shift or ctrl key while dragging your shape.
I may be wrong though.
Couldn't hurt to try.

Ron

[HERB]

Roland,
On the tool bar, looks like a red circle with a bar through it. Next to that is a small arrow, when highlighted it says custom shapes.

[Juli in Kona]

The trick is to select the KIND of stitch first. So, click on Walk Normal or Complex fill and then click on the arrow beside the the Custom shape icon, pick something and click and drag. When you at first click on the type of stitch/fill, then the custom shape will only give you those shapes that can be done in that particular stitch.

Juli in Kona

[signman]

Thanks everyone-Herb gave me a phone call and walked me through it. The shapes are there as a pulldown menu in the shape tool but you have to have column fill selected, then click the right way and that menu pops up. I couldn't get the menu to pull up, he had me walk through it and finally figured out the sequence.
It works now!
Roland