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  • Help needed with aligning in Corel?

    Posted by Andrew Fleming on 11 January 2012 at 09:16

    Just installed x5 on one of our pc’s that we will be using for laser, and i have a few Q’s.

    I want to move an object to a set position, say i have a 100x100mm square and want it to be placed at x=0, y=0 which would be the bottom left of the square, but the problem is the software seems to be using the centre point as the reference, so how do i tell it to use the bottom left node as the reference and not the centre.

    Next one
    if i design a shape on screen with all square corners, is there any way of telling the software to put a radius corner on selected corners?

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  • Glenn Sharp

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 09:36

    I can’t help with your first question Andrew but hopefully I can with your second

    There are a couple of ways to radius selected corners….

    1) Using the shape tool….. Click off the selected object to deselect the four corner nodes and then simply click on the corner node you want to radius and drag

    2) in the toolbar when you have the shape tool selected you will see a padlock centered between four dialogue boxes….you can type a value for each corner in there and treat each corner seperately

  • Paul Hughes

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 09:46

    select both the square and the text and holding down shift press L B and the text will end up in the bottom left corner.

    shift C centers horizontally
    shift E centers vertical
    shift R aligns right
    shift L aligns left
    shift T aligns to top
    shift B aligns to bottom

    Paul

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 09:46

    Yes and Yes, I see one question has been answered already
    Open the Tranform docker (arrange – transform – position)
    Click off (if selected) Relative position
    Put tick in lower left box of the 9 displayed
    Put in the co-ordinates in the H and V boxes at the top
    Click apply

    To move relatively click Relative position and this will move object relative to original position on apply
    Shift click apply will move a copy of the object
    This shift click replaced the ‘apply to duplicate’ button in previous versions.

    for rounding selected corners of a shape (not rectangle) use fillet tool
    Alan D

  • Andrew Fleming

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 09:48

    Thanks Glenn

    I sorted this ok, but my problem is that my shape has more than 4 corners, it could be a machine part with different shapes welded together so i will have inside corners and ext corners.

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 10:07

    Andrew, open Fillet/scollops docker found under windows – dockers
    Select shape – shape tool – select node of the corner you wish to radius
    put number in radius box in docker
    Click apply.
    This will radius the selected corner, corners must be cusp nodes though
    Alan D

  • Andrew Fleming

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 10:27

    Alan

    Cheers all perfect, still have a lot of learning to do in corel, been used to omega and Illy so this one is new.

    Have now to check out auto numbering next????, some discs to do 1-1000

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 12:03

    Auto numbering has been covered in previous threads here but is easy to do in Corel (print merge)
    Alan D

  • David Rowland

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 12:48

    note print merge means its outputting to a printer but if its for engraving etc, then could be a pluggin to help, i dont know of top of my head one

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    11 January 2012 at 14:55

    good point Dave but if the laser has a print driver that would do as all the layout would be done in Corel at the print preview stage
    Alan D

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