BASIC SHAPES AND PREDEFINED SHAPES IN CorelDRAW

DRAWING BASIC SHAPES

In CorelDRAW, basic shapes can be drawn. They can also be modified by using special effects and reshaping tools.

* RECTANGLE TOOL

Rectangle tool lets you access Rectangle and 3-point Rectangle tool. In corelDRAW, rectangles and squares can be drawn by drawn by dragging diagonally with the Rectangle tool or by specifying the width and height in the property bar

A rectangle can be drawn from its center outward by holding down the Shift key as you drag. Similarly, a square can be drawn from its center outward by holding down Shift + Ctrl keys. 

A rectangle that covers the drawing page can be drawn by double-clicking the Rectangle tool.



* ELLIPSE TOOL

The Ellipse tool is used to create an ellipse or a circle. To specify the dimension of the ellipse, or a circle you can specify the width and height of the object in the property bar

The 3-point Ellipse tool grouped with the ellipse tool, is used to create an ellipse at an angle, eliminating the need to rotate the ellipse. The property of 3-point Ellipse tool are the same as those of Ellipse tool.





* POLYGON TOOL

The Polygon tool helps you create perfectly formed shapes. These shapes can be edited with a special internal relationship between the number of points and length of the sides. This tool helps you draw a polygon and two types of stars that are perfect and complex. Perfect stars are normal stars with fill applied to the entire star shape. Complex stars have intersecting sides and produce original results with a fill applied.

 When the polygon tool is selected, the property bar displays polygon-specific options such as Polygon Mode, Star Mode, Number of sides or Sides of polygon, Stars and Complex star, Sharpness of Polygon Slide, and so on.










* SPIRAL TOOL

The Spiral tool can create circular-shaped paths. Spiral objects are composed of single open path that curves in clockwise or counterclockwise direction..The Spiral tool is grouped with polygon and graph paper tool. The property of Spiral tool in the property inspector include Spiral Revolutions, Symmetrical modes, Logarithmic mode, and a Spiral expansion slider

By default, all new spiral objects are set Symmetrical. A Symmetrical spiral object is evenly spaced, where as Logarithmic spirals expands with increasingly larger distances between revolutions.








* GRAPH PAPER TOOL

The Graph paper tool is used to draw grids and set the number of rows and columns. A grid is a grouped set of rectangles that you can break apart. The properties of these tool share the Property bar space with Spiral tool properties and allow setting the number of rows and columns for a new graph paper object.

These all are the basic shaped in CorelDRAW. All the tool which you can seen above are commonly used in all works with different situations.

PREDEFINED SHAPES

Using the Perfect Shapes collection. predefined shapes are drawn. Predefined shapes are basically divided in to five categorized shape areas : Basic shapes, Arrows, Flowchart, Stars and Callouts . Perfect shapes are objects composed of one ore more control points called glyph nodes. These nodes enable you to edit a a specific part of the shape dynamically, according to the shape's design.

When the Basic shape tool is selected, the property bar displays various options such as Perfect Shapes, Outline Style Selector, Warp photograph text and so on.