Drawing lines with CorelDraw

A line is a path between two points. Lines can consist of multiple segments, and the line segments can be curved or straight. The line segments are connected by nodes, which are depicted as small squares. CorelDRAW provides various drawing tools that let you draw curved and straight lines, and lines containing both curved and straight segments.

Freehand and Polyline tools  

The Freehand  and Polyline tools let you draw freehand lines as if you were sketching on a sketchpad. If you make a mistake while drawing freehand curves, you can erase the unwanted part immediately and continue drawing. When drawing straight lines or segments, you can constrain them to straight vertical or horizontal lines.

The Freehand tool lets you control the smoothness of the curved line you are drawing as well as add segments to an existing line. However, the Polyline tool is easier to use for quickly drawing a complex line that consists of alternating curved and straight segments.

You can choose settings to control how the Freehand and Bézier tools behave. For example, you can change the default smoothness of a curved line that you’ve created with these tools.

2-point line tool
You can draw straight lines by using the 2-point line tool. This tool also allows you to create straight lines that are perpendicular or tangent to objects.

Bézier and Pen tools
The Bézier  and Pen  tools let you draw lines one segment at a time by placing each node with precision and controlling the shape of each curved segment. When using the Pen tool, you can preview the line segments you are drawing.

You can draw lines with multiple segments by using the Bézier tool and clicking each time you want the line to change direction.

You can draw curves by using the Bézier tool and dragging the control handles at the ends of the Bézier curve.

B-spline tool
By using control points, you can easily shape a curved line and draw B-splines, which are typically smooth, continuous curved lines. B-splines touch the first and last control points and are pulled by the points in between. However, unlike the nodes on Bézier curves, control points don’t let you specify the points through which a curve passes when you want to align a curve with other drawing elements.

The control points that touch the line are referred to as “clamped”. Clamped control points function as anchors. The control points that pull the line but do not touch it are referred to as “floating”. The first and last control points are always clamped on open-ended B-splines. The points in between float by default, but you can clamp points if you want to create cusps or straight lines within the B-spline. You can edit completed B-splines by using the control points.

You can draw a curved line by specifying its width (left), and then specifying its height and clicking the page (right).

Smart drawing tool
The Smart drawing tool  lets you use shape recognition to draw straight and curved lines. For more information, see "Drawing by using shape recognition."

Using nodes and control handles
Some lines have nodes and control handles that you can manipulate to shape lines as you draw. For information about node types, see "Using curve objects."

Hiding the bounding box
When drawing lines using the curve tools, you can hide the bounding box that displays around the lines once they are drawn. The curve tools include: the Freehand tool, the 2-point line tool, the Bezier tool, the Artistic Media tool, the Pen tool, the B-Spline tool, the Polyline tool, and the 3-point curve tool.

You can hide the bounding box to enhance the fluidity of drawing artistic media strokes in quick succession

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