
I'm sorry, I should have done better describing what I have tried. Can someone tell me whether this is possible in Draw, and what things I should look up help on? I hate to read a whole manual to find out how to use one feature, without even knowing if the feature exists. I've tried looking it up, but am hampered by not knowing what terms Draw uses for these things. I think Visio called the file that held the shapes you could use a "template" Draw has templates, but I haven't found a reference to them holding shapes to drag onto a drawing. The shapes appeared in a panel left of and smaller than the drawing, and you could drag a shape from that panel to the drawing to put an instance of that shape on your drawing the original shape remained on the smaller panel. I'm not very familiar with Draw, but I've used Visio in Visio, there was a kind of file in which you could find/put shapes, then use to create drawings from those shapes. I downloaded an OpenOffice Draw document with shapes I want to use (for drawing Apache Camel diagrams).
