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!