CorelDRAW Example: Gear drawing

On the Internet you can see a lot of different design software to produce gear effect of the article, the author also used CorelDRAW to draw a similar gear. By using different tools to achieve similar effects, you can help deepen your understanding of different design tools.

Many beginners are not always do not know which software is good, face a variety of similar plane software, beginners difficult to choose the right software. In many design forums, different users like to use the software is not the same, so there are many about each software pros and cons of "controversy", which makes beginners confused.

In fact, the use of what software is not important for the design of the most important is the design of ideas and ideas, as well as the designer's aesthetic ability, of course, different software in the function and use skills are also some differences, we can in the use of careful experience, choose the most suitable for their needs. Using CorelDRAW to draw a simple gear effect is actually very relaxed and happy, below we use CorelDRAW 11 as an example to introduce several gear effects of the production method, the other version method is similar.

Basic Gear Styling

Create a new file with CorelDRAW 11. Draw a horizontal line with a hand-drawn tool. We simply hold down the left mouse button and drag horizontally to draw a horizontal line. By default, the software automatically corrects the trajectory, even if our hands are a bit shaky, you can easily draw a straight line. The following from the window in the menu-> the docking window-> transform-> rotation, open the transform Docker (Figure 2).

With the arrow tool, select the line you just drew. For example, we plan to draw a 20-angle gear, then 360° divided by 20 is 18°, we have a rotation angle under the angle of 18 degrees. Center, press the default setting. Relative Center selection Center, and the middle of the radio box, with the mouse click to select (see Figure 3).