Corel Draw 12: Draw a square ornament

In this exercise we use the drawing tool for the Rectangle Tool, the Ellipse Tool and some of the following commands:

- Tranfrom - Position : change the object to an exact position on the screen.

- Align and Distribute : used to compare objects.

- Trim : Create a third object from two intersecting objects.

- Combine (Ctrl + L) : link object, the intersection of objects will be created by empty areas.

- Break Curve Apart (Ctrl + K) : return a group of objects exiting the Combine command.

- Intersect : Creates the third object, the intersection of two objects.

- Fill Tool : coloring tool.

- Outline Tool : contour tool.

Colouration:

- Select the rectangle tool , draw a square of 10 cm by pressing Ctrl + left click and cross-drag.

- On the properties bar in the Object box (s) Size, type 10 cm, in the Nonproportional Scaling / Sizing box, select the lock icon (locked).

- Select Object - Transformations - Position : in Relative Position choose the center in the middle and click Apply To Duplicate tab to add a second square right in the first image.

- Select the circle drawing tool ( Ellipse Tool ) draw a circle with a diameter of 10 cm.

- After drawing the circle, select the circle and the square.

- Select Object - Align and Distribute :

+ Align Centers Horizontally
+ Align Centers Vertically

- Select Object - Transformation - Position :

+ Position : H: 5 cm; V: 5 cm
+ Click Apply tab (Figure 1, 2).

Figure 1

Figure 2

- Select Object - Transformations - Position :

+ Relative Position : in turn choose the middle cell of the left edge, the middle cell of the bottom and the middle cell of the right edge
+ Click Apply To Duplicate tab (Figure 3).

- Select 4 circles and 1 square.

- Select Object - Shaping - Trim (Figure 4).

Figure 3

Figure 4

- Select 4 circles in turn to reduce the diameter to 9 cm (Figure 5).

- Select 4 circles.

- Select Object - Transformations - Position :

+ Relative Position: select the box in the middle
+ Click Apply To Duplicate tab.

- Choose 4 circles to make the diameter drop to 7 cm.

- Just select a large circle and a small circle with the same center, press Ctrl + L. We have 1 scarf.

- Similarly with 3 pairs of circles, we can add 3 towel rings (Figure 6).

Figure 5

Figure 6

- Choose each scarf and the first drawn square one after another.

- Select Object - Shaping - Intersect : we get 4 objects that are intersection of 4 rings and 1 square.

- Select 4 scarf shapes and press Delete (Figure 7).

- Choose a square and some objects you like.

- Select the Outline Tool - Outline Pen select Line line of any object you want.

- Select the objects and fill them as you like, the results are shown in Figure 8.

Figure 7

Figure 8

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