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1. CUSTOMIZE YOUR TOOLBARS
To add new command buttons select \Tools\Customization\Commands, select a command button and drag to the desired toolbar.
To Move a command button from one toolbar to another, press the [Alt] key and drag the command button to the desired toolbar.
To Copy a command button press the [Alt] and [Ctrl] keys at the same time and drag the command button.
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2. CUSTOMIZE THE PROPERTY TOOLBAR.
To copy the [Angle of Rotation] button
from the Transformation Toolbar to the Property Toolbar
when it is in "text mode" : Select any text to activate the "text mode" of the Property Toolbar, press
the [Alt] and [Ctrl] keys and drag the command button to the
Property Toolbar. Now you can rotate text at a desired angle.
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3. PROPERTY TOOLBAR COMMANDS
- Snap to Objects
: You can
snap to Node, Intersection, Midpoint, Quadrant, Tangent, Perpendicular, Edge,
Center and Text Base Line. You can choose what to snap in the Snap Setup.
- Dynamic Guides
: For default
you have guides at 0, 45, 90 and 135º, but you can customize at Dynamic Guides
Setup.
- Treat as Filled
: If this button is pressed, you can select a shape by
clicking inside the fill, if the button is depressed nothing is selected when
you click over a fill.
Note : you can add the [Snap Setup]
and the [Dynamic Guides Setup]
buttons from
\Tools\Customization\Commands, select the View list and drag the
buttons to the desired toolbar.
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4. SNAP TO OBJECTS
First you have to activate the [Snap to Objects] button
. You can snap to Node,
Intersection, Midpoint, Quadrant, Tangent, Perpendicular, Edge, Center and Text
Base Line :
Example: Drag a Rectangle from it's right Midpoint to the circle's left quadrant :
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5. FORMULAS IN THE PROPERTY AND TRANSFORMATION TOOLBARS
You can use formulas containing +, -, *, /, ^ to change the Position, Size or Angle of Rotation of a shape.
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6. SELECTING OBJECTS
To select all shapes that intersect a selection box, keep pressed the [Alt] key while making the selection
To select a shape that is below another shapes, keep pressed the [Alt] key and click the desired shape.
In both cases you can also keep pressed the [Shift] key to add to the actual selection.
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7. WORKING WITH SCALE
You can invoke the CorelDRAW scale from \Tools\Options\Document\Rulers and click on [Edit Scale]. you can also invoke the scale double clicking the Ruler.
Note : The scale is saved with each document.
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8. CHANGING THE SIZE OF A SELECTION
The problem : You have many shapes on a document and they have a wrong size, but you know that one of them must measure 25 units, but actually it measures 10. You want to scale all the shapes to the right size.
The Solution : Select all the shapes again and edit the width (<actual width> / 10 * 25) and press [Enter], you divide between 10 to have the unity, and you multiply for 25 because it's the desired measure.
Verification : Select again the shape that measured 10, now it measures 25 !
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9. FIND THE CENTER OF A CIRCLE WITH 3 POINTS
Draw a line between the 1st and 2nd point and another line between the 2nd and 3rd point.
Duplicate (press the "+" key) the 1st line and rotate 90º (enter "90" in the Transformation Toolbar), do the same with the 2nd line.
Extend both lines till they intersect, the intersection is the center of the circle.
Finally select the ellipse tool and keep pressed the [Ctrl] and [Alt] keys, click on the intersection and drag till the circle touch the 3 points.
Note: Verify the circle touches the 3 Points, CorelDraw isn't very accurate drawing circles.
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10. ISOMETRIC LEFT OR RIGHT VIEW.
Draw a rectangle around the selection (necessary only if it's an irregular shape)
Define the axis (the bottom left corner or the bottom right corner of the rectangle), you can mark it with a cross.
Draw a circle with center on the axis (keep pressed the [Alt] and [Ctrl] keys), and drag till the circle touch the opposite bottom corner of the rectangle.
Draw a Line from the axis to any external point with the desired angle (example: 30º)
Drag a "Vertical Guide Line" touching the intersection between the circle and the 30º line.
Now you can stretch the rectangle till it touches the "vertical guide line", and skew to the desired angle (in this example 30º).
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11. ISOMETRIC BOTTOM VIEW
Draw a rectangle around the selection (necessary only if it's an irregular shape)
Define the axis (the bottom left corner or the bottom right corner of the rectangle), you can mark it with a cross.
Draw a circle with center on the axis (keep pressed the [Alt] and [Ctrl] keys), and drag till the circle touch the opposite top corner of the rectangle.
Draw a Line from the axis to any point with the desired angle (example: 30º)
Drag an "Horizontal Guide Line" touching the intersection between the circle and the 30º line.
Now you can stretch the rectangle till it touches the "horizontal guide line", and skew to the desired angle (in this example 30º).
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12. UNDO/REDO TIP
The Problem : You deleted or modified something some steps back and now you want to recover it, but you also don't want to loose the new changes you have recently done !!!.
The Solution :
- Press [Undo] until the deleted object appears.
- Select and [Copy] the object you want to retrieve. (select and copy only, don't do any change)
- Press [Redo] to recover all changes.
- Press [Paste] to recover the deleted shape.
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