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If you're new to CorelCAD, you should take a look at a series of tutorial videos that walk you through the 2D and 3D design application step by step. Here's the first video tutorial, introducing the user interface of CorelCAD: In the playlist you will find 5 additional tutorial videos, covering...
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CorelCAD Tips&Tricks, Tutorials and more
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Klaus Vossen
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Thu, Feb 9 2012
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Filed under: CorelCAD, CAD, DWG, UI, Tool matrix, tool palette, command window, WCS, Mac OS, UCS, coordinate system, Windows
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This patch extends size of 9 dialogs in Options of DRAW 11,12,X3,X4 • Customization commands & toolbars • Quickcorrect words list • Text styles • Page labels • Associate & Active file filters • Warnings & printing compatibility lists Download: CDRbigOptions1.1.exe or Mirror
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When you switch documents in CorelDRAW v11—X4 with Ctrl-Tab your first mouse click in the new window will be ignored making you think there's something wrong with the pointing device :-), so to select a shape you have to click once more. I've changed this behaviour to a more comfortable and natural...
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Download: CDRbigOptions.exe or Mirror Update: Find out more under http://woxxom-macros.blogspot.com/2008/02/big-options-dialog-patch-for-coreldraw_7188.html .
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The CHMFontSize utility makes help files font larger by converting pixel/pt values hardset in internal css into corresponding percentage relative values. The utility can also apply an additional arbitrary change of the font, see textboxes in the bottom part. And finally: your help files receive an additional...
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Right side of my screen is occupied by an autopopping applications launch buttons list, so using right-aligned palette isn't desirable for me. Bottom-aligned configuration eats vertical space, makes it harder to work with vertical sheets. Here's a trick I've 'discovered'. Undock a...
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Currently DRAW X4 does not show DPI for bitmaps in its status bar. Here's the macro that displays a separate small horizontal info bar when the bitmap is selected: wx_X4addBitmapInfo.exe The macro info window can be moved by mouse, I think it's best to put the window right over the object details...
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You can customize a menu that appears on rightclicking of CorelDRAW Desktop area when no documents are opened, here's the picture with 2 easy steps: Or even better, by adding a customization item "Recent files":
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CorelDRAW 12/X3 options' customization doesn't provide some of color adjustment effects for shortcut assignment, there are no labels for them, nowhere, even in 'All commands' section, e.g.Contrast Enhancements (aka Levels), etc. - 12 effects from Adjust menu.... I wouldn't be me if...
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patch. SlowZoomToggle - toggle mousewheel zoom speed (fast, as in X3 default, or slow, as in Draw11). Shift-scrolling speed is also toggled. patch. ZoomLevelLimitToggle - toggle "Maximum (minimum) zoom level achieved reached" messages. Bug fixed. patch. NodeGlyph2xToggle - toggle double size...
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English UI: Pycckue :-) New: patch. NavigatorWindowSize - for X3 & X4 , resizes document navigator (50-500, DRAW's default is 150), standard hotkey is "N" Download test version of macro patch. SlowZoomToggle - toggle mousewheel zoom speed (fast, as in X3 default, or slow, as in Draw11...
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New: patch . RenderResolution , on-the-fly change of Render Effects Resolution, dpi New : patch . AutocenterPowerClipToggle , on-the-fly toggling of "Center new powerclips contents" option New: patch . NavigatorWindowSize - for X3 & X4 , resizes document navigator (50-500, DRAW's default...
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Added new macro to the wx_PatchDraw package . patch. NodeGlyphColoredToggle - toggle node color coding for different types of nodes. Download: wx_PatchDraw.exe or Mirror
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This enlarged dialog provides better recognition of long names especially in Macros section. Unpack X3customizeBIG_CRLFRMWKINTL.zip archive to c:\Program Files\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 13\Languages\EN\Programs\CRLFRMWKINTL.dll or wherever your Draw in installed - just make sure you you use correct...
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Test version which helps greatly maintaining large customized UI workspaces. You need it when it takes too long to open options's customization list (more than 1-2 seconds) which occures usually after a few months of moderate UI customizing. The macro works from inside of Draw as usual gms do, and...