New Dynamic Guides Will Change the Way You Draw

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When drawing or positioning objects, the screen tips you see provide .... feature in CorelDRAW 12. The guides appear whenever your grab point or line tool ...

 

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New Dynamic Guides Will Change the Way You Draw By Steve Bain Once in a while, a new drawing feature comes along thats so innovative, it has the potential to completely change the way you draw. New Dynamic Guides in CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite 12 will do just that. In fact, after using them for a while, youll wonder how you ever did without them. Lets explore just how great these fancy new guides really are. A Boon for Drawing and Positioning Lines and Objects Unlike typical guidelines that physically occupy a point on your document page, Dynamic Guides appear only momentarily right where you need them. As youre drawing a line or dragging an object, they come to life to show information about your cursors position relative to points on surrounding objects. As your cursor comes within a certain distance of an object snap point, a Dynamic Guide path magically appears right where you need it. The guide path itself is sticky, meaning your cursor easily aligns to it. When drawing or positioning objects, the screen tips you see provide angle and distance measurements from your cursor or grab point to nearby snap points, like this: If youve never used Dynamic Guides before, try these steps and youll see just how powerful this feature is: 1. To view only the feedback provided by Dynamic Guides, turn off the CorelDRAW 12 Snap to Objects feature. To do this, choose View/Snap to Objects Setup to open the Options dialog box for the Snap to Objects pane. Click to turn off both the Snap to Objects On and Show Snap Location Marks options, and click OK to close the dialog box. 2. Next, lets make sure Dynamic Guides are active. If they arent already showing, activate your Dynamic Guide display by pressing Alt+Shift+D. Choose View/Dynamic Guides Setup to open the Options dialog box for the Dynamic Guides pane. Make sure the Angle and Distance Screen Tip options are selected and click OK. 3. Now that youre all set up, start your exploration with a single object. For ...

 

 

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