If we want to draw a drawing in Corel Draw, then we need tools. Next we will know about these tools.
here are 19 different types of tools available in the Corel Draw toolbar. Clicking on the tool you want to use in Corel Draw activates that tool. As soon as the tool bar is activated, according to it, its property also appears in the property bar and the information of that tool is also displayed in the status bar.
Each tool has different tools in the toolbar. All the tools that you want to open, a triangle is formed in the bottom corner of that toolbar. As soon as you click on it, its sub tools are opened and by pressing the mouse and dragging on all the tools, the tool you Clicking on the tool that you want to select, leaving it selects the sub tool.
Pick tool
In Corel Draw, the Pick tool bar is used to select any object or text to move and to change the size of the object or to rotate it.
Method
- When you use this tool, first you have to click on the pick tool.
- After selecting the tool, you have to click on the object that you want to select, as soon as you click on it, it will see small squares around it.
- As soon as you move the pointer on this square, the pointer will change at that point. With the help of which you can change the size of the object or text.
- When you have to select an object or text, you click on the pointer between the object or text and then it becomes an object or text. When you bring a pointer in the middle, it turns into a pointer. You can move that object using this pointer.
- When you take more than one object in a page and you have to select all the objects at once, you can select the object together by pressing the shift key. Or by dragging the mouse pointer over any area in which the object is, the blue color line is squared. All objects in that area will be selected simultaneously.
- If you want to deselect an object that you do not need, then selecting that object with ctrl will be displayed.
- When you want to rotate or skew an object, you get an IX type mark in the middle of the object. When you click on this mark, the square marks around it change. When you move the pointer over that mark, the mouse pointer changes and then you can rotate the object.
You can skew the object appearing on the object as you drag it.
Shape edit fly out tool
Four tools are available in this layout in Corel Draw.
Shape tool
When you want to shape an object in Corel Draw, you can use this tool.
Method
- First select the object you want to edit using the pick tool. Then as soon as you click on the shape tool, your mouse pointer changes.
If you want to convert that shape to another shape - as you have taken a square shape and you want to convert it into rounds, then you have to come to the corner of the object to give a round shape from any corner of the object. Clicking and dragging the square changes the size of the object. - To convert an object into square form, the first thing to do is to convert the object to curve. Selecting the object and pressing Ctrl + Q will convert the object to curve.
Now you can add or remove nodes of any corner of the object. Using this command, the node can also bend. If you want the text can also use this tool to set the paragraph of that text.
- Selecting and dragging the paragraphs of text with the Shape tool can reduce or reduce the difference between two lines or between two words.
Smudge Brush
You can expand or destroy any object or text using this tool. Using this tool, you can expand the shape towards the outside or you can also reduce its volume inward.
Method
- First draw the shape or you type the text.
Note: This tool can be used on vector shape, so the text has to be converted to vector shape by first Ctrl + Q. - When you draw the shape, after that you have to select the Smudge Brush tool. Note: As soon as you select this tool, its property is executed in the property bar, from there you can set the shape, brush size, rotation, dryout effect, etc. of this tool according to need.
- Now to expand or destroy the shape, click on the shape and drag it in any direction which will increase or decrease with the outline of the selected shape.
Note: By dragging the mouse pointer towards the inside of the shape, the shape is cut and as the mouse pointer is dragged outward, the shape increases.
Ruffle brush tool
This tool is used to ruff or destroy the outline of the vector shape or text or its outside side. Apart from this, you can also give zigzag-like effect.
Method
- First draw the vector shape or convert the text to vector shape by giving Ctrl + Q.
- After selecting the ruffle brush tool, the property of this tool will be implemented in its property bar.
- The first time you select a shape or tool with this tool, a message will be displayed to convert that shape or text into a vector shape. In it, the shape or text will be automatically converted into a vector by clicking on the ok button.
- This tool can be set correctly from the property bar itself. You can change the brush size, drag out of the effect, its direction etc. and the following effect will be seen as soon as you drag with this tool on the shape.
Note: Three options are given for three brushes in the property.
- According to the direction of the brush shape in the auto, you can decide its effect.
- In the fix direction, the brush can be effected on the shape according to the angle set from the property bar.
- In style settings, the brush works only perpendicularly and gives a parallel effect like a straight line.
Free transform tool
Using this tool, you can rotate the selected object in different directions. You can also copy this object.
Method
- First of all, you have to select the free transform tool.
- When you select that tool, the mouse pointer appears in this symbol.
Note: Selecting this tool will not see its property in the property bar, but the default property of Karel Draw will be implemented.
3. Now you want to rotate the object with the mouse pointer in which direction you can rotate.
4. You can also copy objects with rotation of the object. For that, rotating the object in the same way, without leaving the left click while rotating, press the right click of the mouse immediately, then the mouse pointer will change. |
Note: When you select the object with the pick tool, you can immediately rotate the object by selecting the free transform tool.
Crop Tool Fly out:
Four tools are also available in this fly out.
Crop Tool:
This tool is used to remove an extra part of an object or to cut a certain amount of an object when there is more than one object.
Methodology:
- First select the crop tool from the toolbox.
- When you select the crop tool, the property of that tool will be displayed in the property bar. From the property bar, you can set crop tool size, place rotation etc.
- Select as many parts of the object as you want to have with the crop tool.
- After selecting the area, the part for the crop will appear in white color and gray color will be seen in the surrounding area. After that double clicking on the white area will get that part cropped. The part of the object covered in gray color gets deleted.
- After selecting the crop area, you can cancel the crop area through Esc or the option Clear Crop in the property bar to cancel it.
Knife Tool:
You can use this tool when you want to cut an object.
Methodology:
- First select Knife Tool from the toolbox.
- The tool converts to a mouse pointer as soon as it is selected and its property is executed in the property bar.
- By selecting the object, you can cut that portion of the object by clicking on the edge and dragging it to the point where you want to cut.Note: You can cut objects into sub paths using the One Object option of the property bar. But that truncated object appears like a single object. Using the auto-close on cut of the property bar, you can cut any object and make it a separate object.
Eraser Tool:
- When you want to erase an object, you can erase the object with the help of this tool.
First select the eraser tool from the toolbox. - When you select this toolbar, its property starts executing in the property bar.
- After that, clicking and dragging the selected object with a mouse pointer will erase the selected object.
Note: To erase a parallel line in the object, by clicking once on the object, leaving one circle will remain where it is clicked, and moving the other circle to the point where it is erased and clicking it a second time will remove that part in the parallel line.
Virtual segment delete:
When you want to separate any part of the object, you can use this tool, you can remove the part which is not necessary for you.
Methodology:
- First select the virtual segment delete tool.
- Clicking on the part of the object that you want to delete with the virtual segment tool, deletes that part.
- If you want the entire object to be deleted, you can click on any corner of the object and drag the mouse pointer to delete the entire object
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