How to skew a rectangle?

#1

Hello,

Could someone clarify if it´s possible to skew a rectangle in Axure RP?

The Widget Style Manager don´t has CSS transforms and I can´t import custom stylesheets to my project.

Best regards

#2

Hi! There isn’t a “skew” feature per say, but if you need something beyond rotation, flipping, and adjusting a widget’s width/height, then you can right-click a widget and choose “Convert to Custom Shape”; this will allow you more control as you edit the now-custom shape.

https://www.axure.com/support/reference/vector-drawing#editing_custom_shapes

There are also a few transformations that may come in handy:

https://www.axure.com/support/reference/vector-drawing#transformations

Hopefully that helps a bit!

#3

Yes, Alyssa, it helps! Thank you!

But I had to mess with “point” because my context menu didn´t show the “convert to custom shape” option.
Notice that I am using Axure RP 9. This options was removed from context menu?

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Best regards,

Thiago

#4

Hi Thiago!

The “Edit Points” option has replaced “Convert to Custom Shape” in Axure RP 9. You can find the “Edit Points” option in the context menu by right-clicking on your shape widget.

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#5

In addition, you can click along the border of the widget to enter point-editing mode directly! Your cursor will change to the point tool when you’re along the widget’s border.

#6

Nice, Chelsea and Rachel!

Thanks for your help :wink:

#7

@Alyssa_Axure has this been fixed in Axure RP 10?

#8

The feature is still the same as it was in RP 9. Depending on what you’re trying to do, adding a shape to the canvas and using Right Click > Select Shape can help you to get closer to the shape you want to make. To further customize a shape, you can Right Click > Edit Points to access the points for the shape, which will allow you to transform it by dragging the points.

To add on, if you Shift-Click to select multiple points this allows you to modify both of those points at the same time, which hopefully is closer to what you’re looking for. Here is a quick demo showing how this would be done.

#9

:slight_smile: Thank you.

Good explanation and demo video on how to it in Axure RP 10.

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