Coreldraw - Lesson 9: Road drawing tools

Line drawing tools in CorelDRAW 12 allow creating lines or curves through points. Objects created with line drawing tools can change some properties such as: thickness, color .

Line drawing tools include: Freehand Tool, Bezier Tool, Pen Tool, Polyline Tool, 3 Point Curve Tool and 3 Artistic Media Tool tools, Interactive Connector Tool, Dimension Tool ( Figure 1 ).

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Freehand Tool (Freehand Tool)

The Freehand tool performs drawing similar to drawing with a real pen. This tool can create closed, open, or straight lines ( Figure 2 ).

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- Draw a line: click at a point, move the mouse (do not hold the mouse button) to the end of the click to create a straight line. To draw straight lines, double click at the end of the line and then click again to create a straight line ( Figures 3 and 4 ).

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- Draw curve: click and hold the mouse to drag along the curve you want to create and release the mouse to complete the drawing line. To create closed areas while drawing, just give the first point the same as the end point ( Figure 5 ).

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Bezier Tool (Bezier Tool)

The Bezier tool draws straight lines, curves and closed areas like the Freehand tool. The shape of the Bezier line depends on the position of the nodes and control points (control points) ( Figure 6 ).

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- Draw a line: click at a point to move to another point click to create a straight line ( Figure 7 ).

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- Draw curves: click at a mouse release point, drag to another point, click and drag the mouse at this point. The mouse drag will determine the shape of the curve ( Figure 8 ).

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When drawing a straight line or curve to finish the line, click Pick Tool or Shape Tool (to edit the object).

To draw a closed area, move the cursor to the first point (the pointer becomes the same node as Figure 9 ) clicking or holding the mouse to drag to the starting point will end the Bezier line.

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To draw next to the currently selected open curve, select the Bezier Tool to move the cursor to the first or last node of the curve that appears with the duplicate button, perform a click or click to continue dragging the curve ( Figure 10 ).

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