The shape tool allows you to create various shapes that can be used in flowcharting, diagramming, and for many other purposes.
Adding shapes
There are several simple ways to add shapes to the board:
- Select shape on the toolbar or press S on your keyboard, choose the one you would like to add, and click your board
- Drag and drop a shape from the toolbar right to the board
Adding a shape
To see the full list of shapes click All shapes - this will open the Diagramming panel.
Opening the full list of shapes
You can add new shapes to the library by clicking More shapes. Basic shapes, Flowchart, Connectors are available for everyone. Other shape packs (BPMN, Data flow, AWS, etc.) are only available for Business, Consultant, Enterprise, and Education plans.
Adding new shape packs to the Diagramming panel
Editing shapes
Select a shape to change its style, color, and transparency. You can style the borders by choosing the color, transparency, thickness, and type.
Styling a shape
Use the white nodes to change the dimensions of a shape. Drag the arrow icon to rotate the shape.
Changing the shape's size and rotating the shape
You can select several shapes at once and style them all.
To change a shape size without changing its ratio, hold down Shift just like you would in any other graphics software.
Use Alt (for Windows)/Option (for Mac) to change a shape's ratio while keeping its center attached to the same place.
You can also convert a shape into a card, text box, sticky note, or any other shape.
The option to convert a shape
Send the shape back and bring to front - click the three dots on the context menu and choose an option. Or use shortcuts Pg Up and Pg Dn (for Windows)/fn + ↑ and fn + ↓ (for Mac).
The options to send the shape back and bring to front
Adding text to shapes
To add text to a shape, select it and start typing. Shapes have a limit of 6,000 symbols.
Feel free to use different text formatting options: you can change the text size, font, style, alignment, color and highlight the text. Note that bullet points are not supported in shapes, please use text instead.
Text in a shape
Quick diagram creation
As soon as you select a shape, a sticky note, or a card and hover over a blue dot near the object, it will show you where a new shape or a connection line will be created. Click the dot to create the line or the object. If you wish to connect the object to the one which is different from the suggested, drag the dot and draw a connection line.
One-click creation and connection in Miro
Dimensions
Use dimensions to create the same size shapes across your board with precision. You can enable dimensions in your board settings.
Aligning shapes using Dimensions
Frequently asked questions
- Can I change the radius on the corners of a rounded rectangle?
- The radius is changed as soon as you change the shape size. - How do I move a shape?
- Select the shape and simply drag it. Please make sure that the shape is not locked and that you activated the select tool. - How do I create a perfect circle?
- Choose a circle on the toolbar and click the board. If you modified the circle shape before and the custom one is created when you click the board, reload the board and add a circle again. - How do I align several shapes?
- Learn here how you can align board objects.