Creating shapes with GIMP?

[katzdvd]

I am trying to edit electrical schematics, & I need to be able to draw squares, rectangles, triangles & various other shapes. Is there a "good" way of doing this using GIMP? So far all I have been able to do is create them freehand using the mouse, & that is just not turning out so good...

[UncasMS]

will this help?

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[katzdvd]

Hi UncasMS,

Nice link....except I can't get GIMP to behave properly. I am able to create the shape, but for some reason, I am unable to get the color fill to work. Most likely PEBKAC. I will keep working at it. It seems odd that they would make this program so "non-intuitive"... mostly everything I do with GIMP seems very convoluted.

[BR7]

Yea, gimp takes some getting used to.I do love Gimp 2.4 it has a lot of cool new features


I haven't been able to use it or Photoshop much because my mouse is going nuts(it makes masking a PITA).It's been like the for almost 3 months,every time I go to get one I spend my money on a movie instead

I can't find it right now, but I think there is a script or plugin that creates basic shapes for gimp

EDIT

Here it is

It goes here
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts

[BR7]

Go here and look at Fenceposts scripts,they should help you out and make things easier.You can do stuff like this with a click of a button
You can also check out his great tutorials

[katzdvd]

It goes here
C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts

Not on my Linux pc...

[BR7]

from what I understand the scm files(scripts)should work for linux gimp as well.You just have to find your script folder