Creating a Dial in CorelDraw

Creating a Dial in CorelDraw – Originally published Oct 2003

One of the items that we need to create if we are doing work for industrial customers is dials. For a lot of people creating jobs like this can be intimidating and can seem quite daunting. However creating a dial is quite easy. For this exercise I will be creating a dial that has two series of graduations. One set of lines will be set at every 10 degrees starting at 0 and another line will be set every 10 degrees starting at 5 degrees.

1. The first step in creating a dial is to create our initial graduation. We will be duplicating this graduation in our dial. Figure one shows the intial graduation that is created. To keep it easy I would suggest that you start your line so that it is horizontal as per Figure 1. Make the line .5 inch long. … Continue Reading