Changing the Default Line Properties in CorelDraw

By default the line properties of a line are in Points, are hairline (note in X4 the line thickness is .014. At this thickness the line will automatically raster engrave instead of vector cutting) in thickness and is black in colour. If you would like different attributes you will need to change the values in the option menu.

First you need to open the “Options” menu by going to the tools menu – see Figure 1. … Continue Reading

Changing the Width of the Vector Line

When you need to do a vector cut on a laser it is imperative that the line width on your vector line should be .001 thousand of an inch. By default in CorelDraw the line width is Hairline or .003 of an inch. Note: in X4 this default is .014. On a laser this is no good and means that our vector line is going to raster instead of cutting. For this reason we need to make the line width say Hairline or .001. … Continue Reading

Outline Line Width

One of the issues I have had with Corel over the years is their lack of representation into the awards, engraving and sublimation industry. So although I always like to accentuate the positive I will have to start off with a negative. This negative goes along with this lack of discussion with us. By default now CorelDraw’s line width is .007. This creates a headache for people like me because my phone and my email are going to be inundated with people who are going to draw a line and find that their machine is going to raster the line and not vector cut it. There is an easy fix for this but alas I really wonder why we have to go through this. … Continue Reading