Question about newer Corel Versions

[Andrea Weissenseel]

Hi everyone,

I'm using CorelDraw 11. Do you have the option to create your own linestyles or patterns in newer versions? I'm also using Xara as alternative software and there I can do that by defining a shape as a brush, but I don't like switching from one to the other and rather have it done in one program.

Thanks, Andrea

P.S. to better explain what I'm asking I attache a picture

[jack Halley]

Assuming your duplicate offset distance is set to ZERO in both directions:

1. Place your first heart on the circle as you want it to appear.
2. Press the "+" key on your keyboard to duplicate the heart (or press
Ctrl+D).
3. Click on the new duplicate heart (which is sitting on top of the original
heart) to get the rotation handles.
4. Drag the rotation point (small cirlce with a dot in the middle of it) to
the centre of the circle.
5. Enter 72 degrees into the rotation angle input box on the Property Bar &
hit your Enter key.
6. Press Ctrl+D to keep producing automatically rotated hearts until all of
the hearts are made.
Adjust your degrees to more or less to match the numbers you desire.
This works in X3.

[Andrea Weissenseel]

Thank you, Jack - the method you're describing also works in Corel 11.

I rather mean a pattern which is automatically assigned along a path, like a linestyle. Maybe using a circle as a path, wasn't a too good example

[jack Halley]

Andrea,
Jeff Harrison has a video of what you are talking about.
If you google "distribution-of-shapes-around-circle"
you should get the video.

[Mike Null]

Andrea

If you look under your effects menu see if you have "artistic media". That should allow you to do what I think you're after. You can create your own design and add it to the default file.

[jack Halley]

Thanks Mike I was on the wrong train!

[Andrea Weissenseel]

yes, Mike that's what I meant thank you !

I found out that I can save the object as "spray can" and use it then. I guess that I still have to toggle between Corel and Xara, because in Xara I have a better control on brush spacing and rotation - like this