First, I'm completely new to CorelDraw, but have two in house designers who are pretty good. However, they don't really know if what I need is possible or how to do it.
I am doing engraving on brass for jewelry and need a way to generate a "grid" template of multiple files so that I can process them faster in production. Please see the image below for what I'm trying to do with as little steps/automatically as possible. Disregard the squares around the first few circles.
Situation:
I have many individual circle images that are each 12mm diameter.
The page/canvas size is 110mm x 110mm
I would like to bring them into Corel, place/align/distribute them to a grid and export that file to my production.
I need the circles to align in the same place every time I bring in a batch of them.
I will have thousands of these images produced daily, so I need a solution that is as quick as possible and used the fewest amount of steps to accomplish.
I really appreciate any help and time on this.
Tom
They are vector images. svg However, the software that generates them can be changed to output something else if needed.
I'm sorry, but I also found out that we use X7. Not sure if that changes anything or not. (Admin, should I re-post there or can you move this?)
TomMfg said: They are vector images. svg However, the software that generates them can be changed to output something else if needed.
I've played around with doing something similar to this, importing a quantity of individual .CDR files and then laying them out on pages.
If you upload a file with some of your .SVG files - preferably a number of them in a .zip file - then I might take a look at this.
Hello, I can think of 2 routes:
Free idea: if each source files are prepared and scaled properly, you may be able to open (drag and drop) all the files you want to print in Draw and then impose them using the print engine. Then you can use CorelDRAW's built in tiling tools in the imposition window for output.
For automation, there are commercial tools that do variable imaging: such as e-cut and variablestool2. they can scale artwork on the fly, to fit areas inside the circles.
Do you do any other artwork besides what you show? Other projects with various sizes?