Hi,
I wan't to draw a technical piece and I need to put tick marks and rulers onto it. Does X4 have the ablility to do this or do I manually have to draw the tick marks and numbers?
Any assistance would be most appreciated,
Darryl
Hi Daryl,
Its very easy. What you need to do is draw several lines (lets say 10 of them) and make the spacing from the first one to the last one 1 inch. Select all of them and you will see the align and distribute toolbox come up. Select that and go to distribute and then spacing, whichever one you need...u just have to play around with the settings to get it the way you want.
You can also check out this post http://community.coreldraw.com/forums/t/8911.aspx it has detailed explanations.
There is a quick way to do this. Draw a line to act as your first tick mark and place it on your ruler where you want it. Duplicate it (Ctrl+D) and drag it to where you want it on your ruler at the other end.Drag while holding down your Ctrl key to drag horizontally or vertically Now, with the Interactive Blend tool simply drag from one tick mark to the other and it will create a whole series of tick marks for you, all evenly spaced. On the Property Bar change the number of tick marks to what you need and they will automatically re-space.
To choose the number you need, you have to subtract 2 as you have already drawn 2. The Property Bar entry tells you how many steps (ticks marks in this case) will sit in between the 2 you already created. If you are doing inches and it is a 12" ruler - you need 13 ticks (as the first one is ZERO). Therefore, you would need 11 ticks in between the 2 you already created, so you would choose 11 on the Property Bar.
Hope that made sense.
Best regards,Brian.
I use blend. A mark at each end then blend between the two. Job done.