Corel Draw Move Ruler to Right Side

2.9 Using Grids and Guidelines

Grids and guidelines are tools that enable you to easily position a selected object to a horizontal or vertical location, or both.

Working with the grid displayed is like working on graph paper. You can use grids to align your object to a position. The grids are not printed. Similarly, guidelines are non-printing lines placed to align and place the objects in your drawing. Guidelines are of two types Vertical and Horizontal. Figure 2.9 shows a horizontal and a vertical guideline.

Figure 2.9: A horizontal and vertical guideline.

Snap to Grid feature will make the grid coordinates act like magnets that attract the object you are moving. If you want to move an object to a location not on a grid coordinate, you will find it difficult with Snap to Grid turned on.

Finally, you can place custom-defined horizontal and vertical guidelines on your page and use them to align objects to a required position.

NOTE: The hotkey for toggling Snap to Grid on and off is Ctrl+Y.

Defining Grids

To display grids do this:

1. Click View menu and choose Grid.

2. You can also adjust the distance between the grids. Also the frequency, i.e. the number of lines between each vertical and horizontal unit, can be set according to your requirement. The intersecting horizontal and vertical lines are called gridlines.

To customize grids do this:

1. Click View menu and choose Grid and Ruler Setup. The option dialog box appears as in Figure 2.10.

Figure 2.10: Customization gridlines

NOTE: While customizing guides you have two options. Specify the guides by specifying the frequency in the selection or specify between the grids.

2. Click Frequency radio button, to specify the number of lines per unit measurement and indicate the frequency for Horizontal and Vertical grid.

3. Click Spacing radio button, to specify the distance between each grid line. Type values in the following boxes.

In the Horizontal: list box type the distance between horizontal grid.

In the Vertical: list box type the distance between horizontal grid.

4. To display the girds as lines, click the Show grid as line radio button.

5. To display the grids as dots, click the Show grid as dots radio button.

6. To display the grid click Show grid check box.

Snap to Grid

You can also have objects snap to gridlines so that when they are moved they jump between the nearest grid line or dot.

To have objects snap top grid do this:

1. Click View menu and choose Snap to Grid or press Ctrl+Y.

Defining Guidelines

To place a Vertical Guideline, do this:

1. Drag on the ruler on the left side of the Drawing window, and pull it to the position you want to place the guide.

2. Alternatively, click View menu and choose Guidelines Setup�. The dialog box appears as in Figure 2.11. In the dialog box, click the Vertical.

Figure 2.11: Setting up guideline through dialog box

To place a Horizontal Guideline, do this:

1. Drag on the ruler situated on the top of the Drawing window, and pull it until the line placed at the desired location.

2. Alternatively, Click View menu and choose Guidelines Setup. The dialog box that appears is shown in Figure 2.12. In the dialog box, click on Horizontal.

Figure 2.12: Aligning circle using Snap to Guidelines

Snap to Guidelines

Snap to guidelines features, when turned on makes the guidelines behave like magnets. That is when you move the object near the guidelines it sticks to the guideline.

To snap to guidelines do this:

1. Click on View menu and choose Snap to Guidelines. Now the guidelines will act as magnetic borders.

To remove guidelines do this:

1. Select the guideline you want to remove with the pick tool.

2. Press the Delete button.

CorelDRAW allows you to snap your objects That is, you can force your object that is being drawn to align automatically to a point on another object.

To snap to Objects do this:

1. Select the objects.

2. Click View and choose Snap To Objects. (See Figure 2.13)

Figure 2.13: Snap to Object

3. Move the object using pick tool. You will observe that the object will appear to be magnetized and stick tightly to the other object.

Spirals and Graphs

With CorelDRAW you can draw spiral shapes and grids.

To draw spirals, do this:

1. Click the Polygon flyout and choose Spiral tool.

2. Specify the number of revolutions you want in the Spiral Revolutions list box.

3. Click and drag in the drawing window till the spiral is of the desired size. See Figure 2.14.

Figure 2.14: A symmetrical (left) logarithmic (right) spiral

4. If you don�t want the spiral to be symmetrical, click on the Logarithmic Spiral button in the property bar.

5. Set the spiral expansion factor by dragging the slider on the property bar.

Graphs

To draw graph, do this:

1. Click the polygon flyout and choose Graph Paper tool.

2. Click and drag in the drawing window till the spiral is of the desired size. See Figure 2.15.

3. You can set the number of rows and columns in the Graph Paper Rows and Columns list box in the property bar. The top box specifies the number of columns and the bottom box specifies the number of rows.

Figure 2.15: A graph with 3 rows and 5 columns drawn using the graph paper tool

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