Hello CorelDraw forum!
Question: How do I join triangles and squares so that they are symmetrical?
I have a customer for whom I am designing a business card. I am having to reset the business card from a scanned image.
The business card has got angles and triangles on it. Some of the angles have fills. Others do not.
I can use the Shape tool and trace the scanned image of my customer's business card. However, some of the angles are mirrored on either end of the business card. If I trace the scanned image it would be hard to get the angles right.
Basically, can someone point me how, or give me a few pointers about how, to work with triangles? I need to join triangles together at angles and so forth so that the business card looks symmetrical.
I would appreciate any assistance.
Thanks.
Care to show us? I'm not sure what you are saying.
One way to make a symmetrical triangle is to start with a single line at the appropriate angle:
Duplicate it in place with the + key and flip the duplicate by holding the control key and moving that centre left handle across to the right. The control key will snap it as an exact mirror:
The result:
You now need to combine those two lines to a single object and join the bottom (with snap to objects on), right click with the shape tool to close the curve and should then have a symmetric, fillable triangle:
You can duplicate items you have selected with Ctrl+D. Then you can flip them. and move them to the other end of the card.
Alternately, you can:
Video of this happening:
JimTrail said:Basically, can someone point me how, or give me a few pointers about how, to work with triangles? I need to join triangles together at angles and so forth so that the business card looks symmetrical.
This needs a bit more explanation. how are you joining them together? Can you show us a scan of that part of the card?
Thanks everyone for responding to my question.
Here's the business card. I have erased the logo, the name, the phone/fax numbers, and the address. The light gray (you can barely see it) at the top exactly mirrors the blue at the bottom. It is just a reverse-flip of the bottom. The angled areas, left and right, mirror each other.
I tried using the pick shape tool to draw the angles. However, it's nearly impossible to get the angles to be symmetrical.
You can barely see them but there are two little stars at each end of the rectangular area. CorelDraw has a feature to draw a star.
I can use the Basic Shapes tool to make triangles or parallelograms. However, if you make the parallelogram more narrow it changes the angles.