CorelDRAW X6 :: Constraints When Drawing Shapes?
May 31, 2013
I am using CorelDRAW 16.3.0.1114.
Supposedly, when using any of several shape drawing tools:
• If I hold Shift when dragging, the shape will be drawn centered on my starting point.
• If I hold Crtl when dragging, the shape will be drawn with a constrained aspect ratio (such as a circle for the Ellipse tool, a square for the Rectangle tool).
But in fact, for the Ellipse and Rectangle tools:
• If I hold Shift when dragging, the shape will be drawn with a constrained aspect ratio (a
circle for the Ellipse tool, a square for the Rectangle tool)..
• If I hold Ctrl when dragging, there is no effect on the drawing of the shape.
For the Basic Shapes tool:
• If I hold Shift when dragging, the shape will be drawn centered on my starting point..
• If I hold Ctrl when dragging, there is no effect on the drawing of the shape.
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Nov 18, 2013
I drew something up on a sheet of paper, scanned it, then traced it's bitmap as line art. I then proceded to edit the vectors to recover all the detail I lost with the tracing. It took forever!
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