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Drawing Ellipses and Circles in
your drawings
Using the ellipse tool you can draw
perfect circles, ellipses to your size
and manipulate circles to new shapes
with the node edit tools.
Once you have a circle or ellipse
drawn, convert to curves, then using
your node edit tool, break apart the
nodes, select the entire node values and
split the nodes. Then you can control
and move your circle or elipse to become
part of a line or weld to another object
such as a rectangle without losing any
clarity of your remaining shape (curve).
Perfect Circles
Hold the CTRL key as you draw using
your Ellipse Tool. The result will be a
perfect circle.
Perfect Circles from your mouse point
(from the inside)
Hold SHIFT-CTRL key as you draw, this
will be perfect circle from the inside.
Perfect Squares
Hold the CTRL key as you draw using
your Rectangle Tool. This will also
create a perfect square.
TIP: Look at your top measurement
selector in the top title tool bar,
Practice achieving a referenced number
when drawing. This habit will assist
your drawing to life size or bigger
image and is a trade secret signwriters
have been using for a long time, the
more you draw with a specific
measurement in mind, the clearer the
image and importantly, the better you
become. This principle can be applied to
lots of other medium, such as carpentry,
sculpture models, building design..
Perfect Squares from the inside.
Hold the SHIFT-CTRL when drawing with
your Rectangle Tool.
How to draw perfect shapes in Corel
Draw, Illustrator or other program.
TIP: Use guidelines, use
guidelines..... use guidelines.
All signage and laser cutting,
screenprinting and other sign related
products are best suited to drawing
using guidelines.
When drawing circles or squares,
rectangles or other shapes, try to keep
your images to common sizes.
Tools you should learn to
use often.
The
Pick
tool lets you select and
size, skew, and rotate
objects.
The
Shape
tool lets you edit the shape
of objects.
The
Freehand
tool lets you draw single
line segments and curves.
The
Bezier
tool lets you draw curves
one segment at a time.
The
Dimension
tool lets you draw vertical,
horizontal, slanted, or
angular dimension lines.
The
Rectangle
tool lets you draw
rectangles and squares.
The
Ellipse
tool lets you draw ellipses
and circles.
The
Text
tool lets you type
words directly on the screen
as artistic or paragraph
text.
The
Fill
tool lets you set the
fill properties.
The
Outline tool
lets you set the outline
properties.
The
Contour Outline
Tool lets you create key
lines in vector formats.
This is the most useful tool
in CorelDraw for making
'scalable' logos, fonts and
drawings with a Key Line.
Learn to use this tool, it
is very handy and will allow
you 'scalable' drawings and
files.
The
Page Up Page
Down
Buttons on your
Keyboard. Select your
object, then use the Page up
or Page down buttons, this
will make the object layer
above or below the other
items on your screen. In
this manner you can draw
without requiring individual
layers as used in Photoshop
etc. You can also use
Ctrl/Page Up, Ctrl Page
Down, to move above or below
one item at a time. Very
handy.
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