I'm a pretty basic user; however, I just finished drawing a hand (with index finger pointing upward). I used a series of line, arcs, and chamfers to create the hand. Now, I want to apply a uniform fill to this thing. I've tried joining the nodes using the shape tool, but that works only so far, but not for the whole drawing. I've tried combining the objects, even welding the objects. What do I need to do to make this drawing something that can be filled? Is there a tutorial out there on this, by chance?
Before you can fill something, it has to be a single object.
Sometimes though, you can quickly create a single object using the smart fill tool. Select it and click in an area enclosed by multiple objects and it will usually give you a single object occupying that space. You can then apply a fill to that object, and delete everything else if the original portions no longer serve a useful purpose.
Hello tbeiswenger; Like Harry said the Smart Fill works on most any drawing, If X3 has Smart Fill. Another thing is to make sure you don't have double lines in some places. Combine the hand and Use the Shape Tool and move a few nodes and see if there is a line under it, and you can use the Ctrl+Z to undo the moves if there is not another line there, then join the ends to make a single object. If you could post the file here we could look at it for you and give more advice.
George
TheSign Guy said:If X3 has Smart Fill.
It should have, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CorelDRAW
Hello Harry; I went from Ver.11 to X4, never had X3, but I know that if it's a single closed object it will fill. You have to watch the double lines.
Perhaps you could post the CDR hand so someone could take a look at it.