Drawing

March, 2018

• 1 March

  Using the Find and Replace Command to Replace Text Strings

  

  In this article we will look at how to find a certain text string and replace it with another one. This can be a very handy tool when we are looking at doing multiples where we say have a group of plates that have Champion on it and want to …

October, 2016

• 9 October

  Welding Objects – Creating a Legend Plate

  

  One of the harder techniques that people have difficulty with is the weld function. In this tutorial we will review how to use the weld command. The best way to learn the weld command is to start off with a simple example. Showing what happens with an overlapping circle and …

August, 2016

• 25 August

  Weld Command – Creating a Legend Plate

  

  A lot of times over the years I have been asked or needed to recreate an object that someone else has created. These objects could be logos or web graphics or legend plates. A lot times the image that I have been given needs to be redrawn as the original …
• 14 August

  Tracing a Logo in CorelDraw Using CorelTrace

  

  In this video we take a logo that is in black and white and has been saved as a JPEG. The problem with a black and white JPEG image is that the software typically anti aliased. What this means is that the image has a light gray edge around the …
• 12 August

  Set Up Lesson – Changing the Colours in a Logo in CorelDraw

  

  “I have a question. I have attached a logo. Will it engrave properly on the encore gold and black, the logo is coloured and if I convert it to b & w it looks awful, am I doing it right Chris” This is a pretty standard question that I get …
• 8 August

  My Plotter File (.plt) Has Bad Curves

  

  Although I see less and less use of the .plt file for import I still occasionally get questions on using the .plt or plotter. One of the common issues when importing or exporting a plt file is that the curves will break down and not be smooth. This can be …

July, 2016

• 5 July

  How to Turn a Scroll Saw Scan Into a Cutting File for the Laser

  

  In this video we will take a scan of a scull saw pattern. We will than bring that scan into CorelDraw.This image can not be cut as it is not a vector image. We will use Corel Trace to create that cutting or vector file. Once we create the vector …
• 5 July

  Creating a Wood Ornament Part 2

  

  This is a continuation of Part 1 on creating a wood ornament Import in The EPS File Open up CorelDraw and go to FILE (1) IMPORT (2). We are going to import the EPS we created in our previous tutorial. Select the Wolf File You can leave your file type …
• 4 July

  Creating a Seal Die Using the Blend Tool

  

  One of the things that you may have to do if you own a laser is to create a seal die and corporate logo. You can do this one of two ways. One is to use the repeat command where you repeat the image until you fill up your circle. …
• 4 July

  Creating a Ruler in CorelDraw

  

  One of my dealers asked for some help on this order that they where trying to get. It is creating a ruler. I have been asked about this a couple of times so let us make the file up and show you how to do it. Here is the File …