The Pen Tool

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Use the Pen tool to draw shapes that are not provided in the Arrow, Orbital, or Drawing Elements palettes. For example, you can draw irregularly shaped arrows, curves depicting graphs or reaction coordinate diagrams, and other irregularly shaped solids.

The Pen tool has two modes:

• Drawing-Used to create shapes. The hand cursor appears with a "+" sign inside.
• Edit-Used to edit shapes. The hand cursor appears without a "+" sign inside.

NOTE: To enter edit mode directly from drawing mode, press Esc.

Some examples of shapes that you can draw using the Pen tool are shown below.

To toggle between a selection tool and the Pen tool do one of the following:

• Press Command+Option+Tab
• Click a selection tool.

The last drawn curve and a selection tool are selected.