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 …
Read More »When I create a thick outline my square edges get cut off in CorelDraw
One of the problems that people have when they are resizing vector graphics in CorelDraw is that some of of the outlines when made bigger lose there squareness at the edge. This is not a bug in the software but is a preset in the software. You can change this …
Read More »When I scale an image up I want the line width to scale with it
Sometimes when you want to scale a vector drawing up you may want that line width to scale up or down with the other objects. This is quite easy in CorelDraw. Create a simple vector object I created a rectangle Assign an 8pt line width Select the rectangle and go …
Read More »Working With Guidelines – Advanced
In our previous tutorial we looked at how to input guidelines more as margins for a product than using the Guidelines as tools for drawing, locating etc. In this tutorial we will spend time on Guideline Positioning With the guideline selected you can see that its location is at the …
Read More »Vectoring a Butterfly Found in a Scroll Saw Book
I had a customer who bought a laser to create a number of scroll saw patterns on their laser machine. The problem is the images are in a book. This article will show you how to take the scanned image and vector it so that we can cut it out …
Read More »Recreating a Logo Using the Envelope Command
This was a request from a customer on how to recreate the text so that it flows in curve along the top of the text but is still straight at the bottom. We do this using the Envelope command in CorelDraw. The Envelope command is a very powerful tool that …
Read More »Recreating an AutoCad File – Using the Smart Fill
This was a file that was sent to me by a customer that had issues with an AutoCAd file imported into Corel where it would triple cut and jump all around without completing to cut one whole object. It would just cut the individual segments. In the old days we …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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. …
Read More »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 …
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