Mosaic Design Tools

Mosaic Design Tools

Mosaic has a full set of design tools that make your designing experience a pleasure. Tools in Mosaic include the zoom tool, full and fractional tile tools, text tool, eraser tool, fill tools, and many more such as ...

Draw single tiles, tile blocks, lines, borders, rectangle, or oval shapes
Universal eraser or single colour eraser tool
Crop design, add clip bits or save clip bits
Flood and variegated fill (random mix) tools
Full tile, half tile, quarter tile, offset tiles, horizontal & vertical tiles
View & print simulated tiles
Plus many more…

Zoom Tools

Use the zoom tools to view your chart at many different zoom levels and in different modes such as color, symbols, and simulation.

Cutout Tool

The Cutout Tool is often used in conjunction with the Edit menu options to cut and paste section of a design.

Tile Tool

You can use the Full Tile tool to draw tiles one at a time or in freehand shapes and lines.

Tile Eraser

The Tile Erasers remove full and fractional tiles. You can erase small or large areas easily by changing the tool size.

Tile Shape Tools

Shapes can be drawn easily with the Tile Shape tools.

Fill Tools

With the fill tools you can fill any closed shape or area with a selected color, fill any closed shape with a random arrangement of selected colors, and erase all the tiles of one color in any closed shape or area.

Fractional Tile Tools

Use the fractional tile tools to draw half, quarter and offset tiles.

Border Line tools

The Border Line tools allow you to manually place a border (i.e. a thin line) around a chart or around a label.

Label tools

The Label Tools allow you to place an area of solid white on your chart so that text placed on it will be more legible. You can choose whether or not this label has a border line around it by selecting the appropriate icon.