I'm pretty new to CorelDraw but am ecstatic that is has a native dimensioning feature. However, the sign shop I work for does a lot of dimensioned drawings of things with radius corners and holes (like on safety signs that get grommets, and we call out their locations for our customers). Is there a way to fairly easily pull out the radius using this feature of Corel?
I was able to figure out the edge-to-hole part easily, but I didn't know if I could also pull out the hole's diameter, and the shape's radius, using this same tool (or another one).
Like so:
That's one area where CorelDRAW is weak compared to CAD software.
To CorelDRAW, the hole is not a circle; it's an Ellipse.
To CorelDRAW, it's not a "live", editable radius on the corner; it's a Bézier curve that approximates the shape of a radiused corner.
You could produce such dimensions manually using the 3-Point Callout tool, but you will be supplying the text.
I have never looked, but perhaps there are some third-party add-ons that could provide that sort of capability with some degree of automation.
Ah, very interesting. I think at the least we'd be fine with manually typing in the radius measurement using the 3-Point Callout Tool. We use the Adobe suite for just about everything else but I love that Corel has these features built in. Other third-party Adobe plugins often don't have the radius feature either. That just might work. Thanks for the suggestion!
Some aspects of dimensions in CorelDRAW can be confusing, because they are in part a combination of other CorelDRAW elements. So, if you look in the Object Properties docker, a Dimension has:
After using dimensions only occasionally for years - and often getting frustrated when I tried to format them - I finally came to understand that Style Sets are a great way to get consistent formatting for dimensions. Styles are a portable asset, too, so you can set up a few style sets, then have them available to use in the future in other drawings.