I have imported a drawing. I am trying to use the fill function to add color. It does absolutely nothing. Everything I have tried gets the same result. Is Draw completely useless or am I missing something? It’s been more than a decade since I used a program for this function, but this used to be a matter of hitting a button.
Draw is a vector editor, not a raster editor. If the image is a png or jpg then use a suitable image editor such as the GIMP.
If the drawing is a vector then make sure the area you are trying to fill is closed.
If the drawing is an svg you might need to Shape > Break to select the shape. Note that this ungroups everything, a rectangle might become a collection of 4 lines arranged as a rectangle. Inkscape can ungroup by layer so might be a better choice.
Now that I have made a couple of wild guesses, I suppose it would be best if you could supply a sample .odg with the shape that you want to fill. Click the Upload icon to upload it here.
There is also the Draw guide, download from English documentation | LibreOffice Documentation - LibreOffice User Guides
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Draw is used by several persons with success, so it is not useless.
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It may not be the right tool for you / your problem, but that’s hard to tell with the scarce information you gave. Not unlikely @EarnestAl is right and you try to fill a raster-graphic with a vector tool …
Maybe good old RTFM could help