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Draw a quick sketch straight into an email

5 October 2026 · searched as draw a sketch in an email

Some things are quicker drawn than described: a layout, a process, where the door goes. MailCode has a sketchpad in the composer — shapes, arrows, flowchart blocks and dimension lines to a scale you set — and the drawing goes into the mail as one picture.

How to do it

1. In the composer, click the Sketch button in the format bar.
2. Pick a tool: pen, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, text, the flowchart shapes, or a dimension. Shapes snap to the grid and to each other’s corners and midpoints.
3. Set the scale under 1 square = — say 0.5 m — and dimension lines label themselves. Double-click one and type a length to resize the shape.
4. Click Insert. The sketch goes into the mail as a sharp picture on white.