MASTER Class
Designing for accuracy with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
By: Roger Wambolt
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite allows you to create even the most detailed drawings and designs with ease and accuracy using straight-forward call-outs or dimensioning lines that offer 10-decimal-place accuracy.
CorelDRAW offers four types of dimension line tools: Parallel, Vertical/Horizontal, An- gular and Segment. The Parallel dimension tool allows you to draw dimension lines on any angle and can be accessed by clicking the Parallel dimension tool in the toolbox. When working with a vertical or horizontal dimension line, open the Dimension tools flyout by clicking the arrow in the bottom- right corner of the Parallel dimension tool button in the toolbox, and click the Horizon- tal or Vertical dimension tool button.
Click to place the starting point, and drag to where you want to place the endpoint of the dimension line.
Move the pointer to position the dimension line, and click to place the dimension text.
By default, dimension text is centered on the dimension line, however this can be changed in the Interactive Property Bar.
To draw a vertical or horizontal dimension line, open the Dimension tools flyout by clicking the arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Parallel dimension tool button in the toolbox, and click the Horizontal/Vertical di- mension tool button.
• Click to place the starting point, and drag to where you want to place the endpoint of the dimension line.
• Move the pointer to position the dimension line, and click to place the dimension text.
Working with Dimension Lines CorelDRAW makes it easy to add various types of dimensioning lines to indicate the distance between two points in a drawing or the size of objects. By default, dimension lines and the measurements shown on the lines change when you change an object’s size. Known as dynamic dimensioning, this enables you to resize an object or group of objects without the need to recreate the di- mensioning lines.
To draw an angular dimension line, click the arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Parallel dimension tool button to open the Dimension tools flyout, and click the Angular dimension tool.
• Click where you want the two lines that measure the angle to intersect, and drag to where you want the first line to end.
• Click where you want the second line to end.
• Click where you want the angle label to appear.
For a more powerful way to add dimension- ing, you can use the Segment Dimension tool in the toolbox. To draw segment dimen- sion lines, click the arrow in the bottom-right corner of the Parallel dimension tool button to open the Dimension tools flyout, and click the Segment dimension tool.
Click the segment that you want to meas- ure.
Move the pointer to where you want to po- sition the dimension line, and click where you want to place the dimension text.
With the Segment dimension tool, you also have the ability to measure the distance be- tween the two most distant nodes in multiple segments. Using the Segment dimension tool, marquee select the segments, drag to position the dimension line, and click where you want to place the dimension text. You can also measure successive segments au- tomatically by clicking the Automatic suc- cessive dimensioning button on the property bar, and marquee select the segments that you want to measure. Drag to the location where you want to place the dimension text and release.
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