# Customizing shapes in Shape Manager

**URL:** <https://forum.knime.com/t/customizing-shapes-in-shape-manager/3641>\
**Category:** KNIME Analytics Platform\
**Created:** [March 3, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/customizing-shapes-in-shape-manager/3641 "2014-03-03T17:51:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![deanabb](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@deanabb](https://forum.knime.com/u/deanabb)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/customizing-shapes-in-shape-manager/3641/1 "2014-03-03T17:51:38Z")

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Is there a way to customize the shapes used in the shape manager? Specifically, I'd like to&nbsp;change filled-in shapes (circles, squares, triangles, etc.) to unfilled; this is a better way to show data when lots of points are falling in the same region of a scatterplot.&nbsp;

I'm running 2.9.0 on the Mac (also PC, but my question first relates to the Mac).&nbsp;

Dean

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**Author:** ![aborg](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@aborg](https://forum.knime.com/u/aborg)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/customizing-shapes-in-shape-manager/3641/2 "2014-03-03T17:57:58Z")

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Regarding lots of points: have you considered using slightly transparent colors? That might also help in overlapping visualization.

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum-cdn.knime.com/uploads/default/original/1X/ab3ccf34482a0329361734a18199390177204f15.png) [@system](https://forum.knime.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.knime.com/t/customizing-shapes-in-shape-manager/3641/3 "2023-06-23T20:19:26Z")

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