Aha! Whiteboards | Icons

Icons add context to your diagrams, plans and presentations Use them to quickly communicate hierarchies, structures, and designs so you can improve understanding and align your team.

• Add an icon

• Pin the icon menu

• Architectural icons

Add an icon

Choose from hundreds of icons to add precision and style to your whiteboard. To do this:

• Click the Shapes icon in your whiteboard toolbar.

• Select the Icons tab from that menu.

• Scroll or Search to select the icon you want to insert into your whiteboard.

Once you insert an icon, it will behave like any other shape.

• Resize a shape by selecting and dragging its corners.

• Rotate a shape by selecting the rotation icon and dragging it to your desired angle.

• Format a shape using the customization options above it — you can edit the fill color and opacity or the line weight, color, and style.

• Add text to an object by double-clicking the object, then begin typing. Align text you have added to an object by selecting the object and clicking the Align button.

• Add a comment with the comment icon on the shape's toolbar.

• Lock the shape so that it cannot be edited.

• Use the More options menu to cut, copy, paste, link to, or group the text box, as well as bringing it forward or back in relation to other objects.

Icons and shapes often exist in relationship to other shapes — and just as often, you need to add duplicates of the same shape. You can do both of these things easily:

• Click one of the small blue dots that appear outside the shape's border. This will create a copy of the shape joined by a connector to the original.

• Click and drag to create a connector without creating another shape. If you end the new connector in another object's small blue dots, those two objects will remain connected even if they are moved later.

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Pin the icon menu

Click the pin icon in the upper right of the icon menu to keep it open while you add multiple icons. Click it again to close the menu.

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Architectural icons

Aha! Whiteboards Advanced plan subscribers can use more than 1700 architectural icons to build out network, systems, and data center views. Use them to build architectural diagrams so your team can gain a deeper understanding of relationships, boundaries, and constraints of technical solutions.

Architectural icons are categorized by type in your Icons menu:

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)

• Azure

• Google Cloud

The 20 most recently used icons will display in the menu for each type by default. You can click All the bottom of each section to see all icons.

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