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Handicrafts & Carpets Exercise 1.3.19
Hand Embroidery Artisan - Designing by using CAD

Practicing on CAD (Vector graphics CAD & Coraldraw)

Objective: At the end of this exercise you shall be able to
• practice on coraldraw software.

Requirements
Materials
• Computer with coraldraw software - 1 No.

PROCEDURE

TASK 1: How to use the star (Fig 1) Fig 3

Fig 1

7 Clicking the pivot point brings back the X and the
sizing handles.
1 To draw a star from its center, hold the “Shift” key 8 As long as a star is selected, you can change outline
while dragging the mouse. width, line style, left-click a color swatch to add a solid

2 To draw a star with all sides equal, hold the “Ctrl” key fill, and right-click a color swatch to set the outline
(Cmd key for Mac users) while dragging the mouse. color. We can also change the number of sides and
adjust the sharpness of the points. (Fig 4)
3 To draw an equal-sided star from its center, hold both
the Shift key and “Ctrl” key while dragging the mouse. Fig 4
4 Corner handles can be dragged to resize while
maintaining the aspect ratio, and side handles
can stretch or narrow the star shape. Clicking and
dragging the X moves the star, and keeping the “Shift”
key pressed constrains the move to be horizontal or
vertical.
5 When you click on the X, the sizing handles become
rotation handles, which can be used to rotate or skew
the star. (Fig 2)
9 We can also use the Object Position fields on the
Fig 2 property bar to place the star. By default, the X and Y
coordinates here define the location of the X at the star
center. But you can also choose a different reference
point, like the lower left corner of the bounding box,
and specify that point’s coordinates. (Fig 5)
Fig 5

6 The star center is now a circular pivot point, which
you can click and drag to a different spot, and now
this point is the center of rotation. (Fig 3)
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