Corel x3 help

[Glenn Sharp]

Neil….I’ve found Corel does this once you tweak the shape of the rectangle. If you draw a shape on screen and then immediately round the corners it seems to do them evenly….once you change the size of the rectangle it seems to distort the corners for some reason

My work around for this is to draw the rectangle or square you want by stretching and scaling until it’s the correct size and then using ‘snap to objects’ draw another rectangle on top of your original……..because you haven’t stretched this one it should round the corners with no problems

I’m pretty sure this was covered before and there were a few alternative ways but this has always been the way I’ve got round it

[George Elsmore]

you should use the shape tool to radius the corners

[NeilRoss]

Neil – I’m guessing what you’ve done is this:
Drawn a square (or a rectangle) using the Rectangle tool.
Then stretched it in ONE direction
Then used the Shape tool to move the corner nodes to create the radius corners?

That’s just how Corel works as far as I can make out. You need to create the rectangle to the dimensions or proportions you want the finished rectangle to be. Then use the shape tool to create the radius corners – works perfectly. Not very logical I agree. If you want to change the dimensions of the rectangle in one direction only following this then you’ll need to start from the beginning again (in my experience). Pretty annoying until you are aware of it in advance then you can think ahead and handle it this way.

[Alan Drury]

This was a problem with distorted rectangles but was addressed in X5 and is now fixed (not that it was a bug in the first place) a fix is as described by the guys before although there is a macro which will correct the corners and still leave the rectangle a rectangle as opposed to a curve, it is either at macromonster.com or Oberonplace.com but I can’t remember which.

Edit http://macromonster.com/index.php?mod=d … &Submit=Go
Alan D