| English | German |
| drawing brush | Zeichenpinsel (A tile brush that paints an area with shapes, text, images, and video) |
| drawing canvas | Zeichenbereich (An area upon which you can draw multiple shapes. Because the shapes are contained within the drawing canvas, they can be moved and resized as a unit) |
| drawing container | Zeichencontainer (In SVG, an element that groups graphics elements, used as a partial canvas) |
| Drawing Exchange Format | Format für den Austausch von Zeichnungen (A computer-aided design file format originally developed by Autodesk; for use with the AutoCAD program to facilitate transfer of graphics files between different applications) |
| Drawing Explorer | Zeichnungsexplorer (A window that shows a hierarchical view of a document and updates to reflect the current drawing hierarchy as items (such as shapes or pages) are added or deleted) |
| drawing file | Zeichnungsdatei (A Visio file with a .vsd extension that contains a drawing) |
| drawing object | Zeichnungsobjekt (Any graphic you draw or insert, which can be changed and enhanced. Drawing objects include AutoShapes, curves, lines, and WordArt) |
| drawing page | Zeichenblatt (The page in a drawing window that contains a drawing. A page can be either a foreground or a background page. Each page has a size, which usually corresponds to a standard paper size, and it has a scale) |
| drawing scale | Zeichnungsmaßstab (The ratio of distance on the printed page to distances in the real world. For example, a drawing scale of 1 cm = 1 m means that 1 centimeter on the printed page represents 1 meter in the real world) |
| drawing type | Zeichnungstyp (A Visio file (template) with a .vst extension that opens with the stencils, styles, and settings you need to create a particular type of drawing) |
