3-Point Curve and the Smart Drawing Tools in CorelDRAW tutorial shows us, the power of these two tools.
It demonstrates how to draw straight, or curved-lines using the 3-Point Curve tool. Instructions show you how to draw perfectly symmetrical curved-lines. You will learn how to draw a perfect arc with this tool. It shows how to add as many segments as you wish, to existing straight or curved-lines. The properties of the objects you draw using the 3-Point Curve tool can be altered. Properties such as the outline width, style and colour. It demonstrates how to do a Close Curve on a curved-line drawn with the 3-Point Curve tool. You can apply a Fill to close curve line. The tutorial also walks you through the steps need to be able to apply fill to open curve lines. The fill can be a one colour fill, or a fountain fill. You can also do a vector fill, a two colour fill, or a bitmap fill.
The Smart Drawing tool is an amazing tool. It really is a “Smart Drawing” tool. It allows you to select the sensitivity of the shape recognition level, as well as the Smart Smoothing level. The Shape Recognition Level adjustment options range from ‘None’ to ‘Highest’. Similarly, the Smart Smoothing Level can be adjusted from ‘None’ to ‘Highest’.
You can draw freehand strokes and the Smart Drawing tool is able to recognize and convert these, to basic shapes. Rectangles and ellipses are converted to native CorelDRAW objects. Whereas trapezoids and parallelograms are converted to Perfect Shapes objects. And lines, triangles, squares, circles and arrows are converted to curve objects.