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Working Environment
When you launch ConceptDraw for the first time, the Template Gallery dialog comes up. This dialog lets you choose a template, to base your document on. If you don't want to see this dialog at start-up, remove the Show At Startup check. For this Quick Start guide we won't need templates. Click on the Blank document button in the Template Gallery dialog to create a blank document.
The document window will come up, with the main menus, several toolbars and a blank document.
The document window:
The user can re-arrange and customize toolbars; however, we will use the default toolbar settings for the purpose of this exercise.
The Drawing Tools toolbar is located in the left part of the document window and contains the main tools for drawing and editing shapes and their text.
At the top of the document window you can see the main program menu and all or some of the following toolbars: Main - for working with document files (opening, saving, printing, copy/paste commands and others), Formatting - for working with line and fill colors and styles, the Snap & Glue toolbar which toggles the Snap and Glue modes on/off, the Zoom toolbar that is used to increase/decrease the zoom level in the document.
The Text toolbar, that controls text formatting of shapes, is located at the bottom of the screen.
By default, the grid is displayed for more convenient and precise drawing. It can be disabled from the View / Grid menu.
By choosing the Rectangle tool  you can draw a rectangle in the document, using the mouse. Press and hold down the mouse button, and drag the mouse across the page to draw a rectangle of the desired size and form. On releasing the mouse button, the rectangle will appear. To select the rectangle, switch to the Select tool  and click somewhere on the rectangle. To deselect it, click away from the rectangle. To move the rectangle to some other place, click and hold the mouse button on it, drag it to the needed location and then release the mouse button.
When you are in the select mode, you can resize the rectangle by dragging the corresponding resize handle.
To remove the selected shape, press the Delete key.
If you double-click the rectangle, or press F2 when the rectangle is selected, the text editing mode will turn on. The text can be added to each shape. The text editing mode will also turn on automatically if you start typing when the shape is selected.
If you press and hold the Ctrl key when dragging a shape, you will drag a copy of the shape instead of the original shape. You can carry the copy to the needed location and release the mouse button to drop it there.
Besides, the selected shape can be moved with the keyboard (the arrow keys).
If you click on a resize handle of a selected shape, the resize handle will get selected and you can use the arrow keys to move the resize handle and reshape the shape by doing this way.
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