Shaping Basics
Software : Corel DRAW X3
Level : Beginner

Concept: The lesson is designed using CorelDRAW, the world fame vector program used by artists, illustrators and designers. CorelDRAW is a very user friendly software and you can learn fast for the basic level. Try to explore more commands using these lessons as guideline. CorelDRAW has best of the drawing and editing facilities with the astonishing range of effects. Please try to go further than these tips and tricks by drawing your own shapes and applying effects with different options.

We will start with the shaping where we can weld, trim, intersect and do lot more things with the selected objects. Let us understand the basic principle of weld, trim and intersect.

1. You always need two objects for weld, trim and intersect.

2. Better to overlap them first before you work with weld, trim and intersect.

3. When you overlap two objects and go for weld command, the overlapped part of the objects is melted and the two objects are turned into one single object.

4. If you overlap two objects and try trim command, the overlapped part of the first object will cut or trim the part of the second object.

5. If you overlap two objects and try intersect command, the overlapped or the intersected part will be available separately.

6. There are different ways to work with shaping commands. Shaping can be useful to create irregular shapes.