• Corel Software

  Is there a way i can apply thickness to a line?

  Posted by Gary Davis on 15 November 2004 at 11:18

  hi,

  sure this is gonna be a stupid Q!! but anyway………….

  in corel im trying to redraw a brick wall, was hoping to draw lines using the bezier tool and then apply thickness however from past jobs i think the cutter doesnt cut the outline just the central line if that makes sense?

  Is there any way i can apply a thickness to the line and make it cut it?

  I was going to re create it using boxes but the overlap issues mean id have to weld it all.
  Is this right way of doing it?

  any advice appreciated

  thanks in advance.

  Bill Dewison replied 20 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  Peter Munday

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 12:01

  I know it can be done in Corel 12 😀
  But I’m not to sure in any earlier versions. (?)

  Peter

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  Rodney Gold

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 12:15

  If you make an outline on a bezier tool line , it makes a “box”
  However the easiest way to do this is draw the *bricks* as boxes , duplicte a row and move the row a little bit up , offset by half a “brick” to the left or right , then duplicate these 2 rows upwards or downwards. the bricks will cut and you can weed however you like , either leave the bricks or the “guttering”

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  Andy Gorman

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 12:28

  Rodney’s is the easier method. If you still wish to do it the way you were trying, there is a command called “Convert outline to object” in the Arrange menu. You will have to break apart and delete the original line though. (Ver 9)

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  Bill Dewison

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 14:05

  Alternatively I could email you a vector file of some bricks I was working on for another job 😀

  

  Cheers, Dewi

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  Gary Davis

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 14:36

  thanks for all the advice!

  dewi thanks for your offer, would be great if you could email me that, have emailed you re this so you should have my email address now

  cheers

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  Andy Gorman

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 14:36

  Another job? You mean you are going to clad the front of your house in vinyl bricks, just like Jack and Vera Duckworth. 😀

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  Bill Dewison

  Member

  15 November 2004 at 15:17

  LOL, it was from a sign I drafted up for an alarm company. They were fine with it until they saw the price, I may have ‘alarmed’ them a little 🙄 I know, I know, don’t give up my day job.

  Dtg, can you send me a PM as I cannot collect my email from that account at the moment. Pop your email addy in it, and I send over the CorelDRAW file 😀

  Cheers, Dewi

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