Operation Manual

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Create technical illustrations with
confidence
Technical illustrators require tools designed for
very specific tasks. For instance, they need to be
able to work quickly and intuitively when adding
or fine-tuning dimension lines and text, two-
point lines, detailed annotations, callouts, and
measurements. The ability to call attention to an
element in an illustration by providing a
magnified view is also critical.
With Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite X5, users
benefit from drawing and diagramming tools
that let them envision with precision. In addition
to a wide range of color enhancements and the
ability to scale rectangles with round corners, the
suite includes a professional image-editing
application and the power of CorelDRAW X5.
Object Coordinates docker: With the Object
Coordinates docker, users can draw, size, and
rotate shapes and lines with precision. A live
preview facilitates the drawing and editing of
objects. The Object Coordinates docker lets users
specify the exact coordinates and other
measurements of ellipses, circles, polygons, and
both straight and complex lines.
Dynamic guides: When creating a design,
dynamic guides give technical illustrators speed
and precision by helping to align, draw, and move
objects in precise relation to other objects. Fully
customizable, dynamic guides are temporary
guides that appear from the following snap
points in objects — center, node, quadrant, and
text baseline. For convenience and efficiency,
technical illustrators can also display dynamic
guides that are tangent, perpendicular, or parallel
to objects.
Dynamic guides provide screen tips to help users
achieve precision.
Enhanced! Gravity snapping: Gravity
snapping lets technical illustrators snap the cursor
to various points in objects, making it easy to
create and position objects accurately. With
Corel DESIGNER X5, users have the new option to
Snap to Page. Users can also snap the cursor to
perpendicular and text baseline points. In
addition, users can customize gravity snapping to
perform in the way that best suits their workflow.
Corel DESIGNER lets users control the
behavior of gravity snapping.