This is a file that was given to me by one of my customers who needed some help in the print merge. The original file I got had all the lines in one column so I suggested that the customer fix it up so that there were 20 columns of names.
One of the more common items that we need to engrave is a dial. If you do any work for industrial customers than you will need to be able to master this technique. Doing a dial in CorelDraw is easy it just requires a little more thought when you are doing it. In this lesson we will show you how to create a dial that is composed of two different length strokes. Each stroke will be at a different degree on a circle.
One of my dealers asked for some help on this order that they where trying to get. It is creating a ruler. I have been asked about this a couple of times so let us make the file up and show you how to do it.
One of the problems that people have when they are resizing vector graphics is that some of of the outlines when made bigger lose there squareness at the edge. This is not a bug in the software but is a preset in the software. You can change this in the miter setting in the outline setup up or make it a default in the styles setup in options area.
When it comes to formats for exchanging files one of the more common formats that we use is JPEGS. JPEGS are good because most people can create them, the file size is small and when you say JPEG to someone they know what you are talking about. The problem with JPEGs is that they are good for photos but not so good for logos or other so called line art type images. The big problem with JPEGS is that they typically save the files with Anti Aliasing on. … Continue Reading
In this tutorial I had a customer ask me how to do an offset on a line of text that was .1 inches. This is easy to do in CorelDraw by using the contour command.
One of the ways to keep your objects lined up in CorelDraw is to use guidelines in your setup. In this article we will look at how to use guidelines. Guidelines are also usefully in aiding design in terms of we can have our drawing snap to a guideline. I like to use guidelines when I want to ends of a logo to line up. It is also good for checking the "tilt" on an object. This is a basic overview. For more tips see the advanced section.
Here is a job one of my dealers asked us to do. This is not a hard job but he did not have a laser so we did the job for him. He emailed me the suggested setup from his customer. I also had to go to Brands of the World to import the lions logo for him. I had to copy the text paste it into CorelDraw, than format the text. The next step was to import in the lions logo than output the job to the laser so that I could engrave it onto acrylic.
I decided to do a separate help fie that looks at the formats of text that you can use for the print merge function in CorelDraw. Typically most customers will be supplying you with text from either Microsoft Word or Excel. I will look at these two programs and show you how the text needs to be formatted. If you are getting information from other programs probably a CSV (commad delimited format) is the best
Although you can bring in an Excel file into CorelDraw using the CSV can be quite easy and more applicable for those that are not familiar with merging text. It is as easy as just saving the file as a different file format. Note: You must close the excel and CSV file before you can properly access the file in CorelDraw
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