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Bonnie Russell
10-17-2010, 9:25 AM
I'm probably missing the obvious in how to accomplish this, but have tried in Corel for hours and can't figure it out.

I am trying to create an ornament that will be about 1/4" wide, uniformly, on the outside edge. The inside of the ornament should be "blank": where the material has been cut away.

Creating a duplicate object, reducing size and re-centering obviously doesn't work (attached). Can anyone help me accomplish this?
Thanks!!
Steve Clarkson
10-17-2010, 10:39 AM
Bonnie,

Have you tried the Contour tool?
Larry Bratton
10-17-2010, 11:29 AM
Thats a tough one. I tried the contour tool and creating a boundary. Neither works and I surmise it is because you have areas in the graphic that are much less than .25 subsequently not allowing the offset? I would also be interested to see the solution to this if there is one.
Gary Hair
10-17-2010, 11:42 AM
It's going to take a bit of cleanup afterwards, but you can change the line width, convert outline to object and then edit. You'll have to enlarge it quite a bit to make the outline conform to the shape, but it will work.

Gary
Robert Walters
10-17-2010, 12:46 PM
Bonnie,

I don't know if this it what you wanted, but creating a outline that is 1/4" away was a not easy in Corel :D
Larry Bratton
10-17-2010, 1:06 PM
It's going to take a bit of cleanup afterwards, but you can change the line width, convert outline to object and then edit. You'll have to enlarge it quite a bit to make the outline conform to the shape, but it will work.

Gary
YES..I think that would work. Still a little tricky though.
Larry Bratton
10-17-2010, 1:08 PM
Bonnie,

I don't know if this it what you wanted, but creating a outline that is 1/4" away was a in Corel :D
So Robert, mind sharing your method?
Bonnie Russell
10-18-2010, 8:06 AM
Thank you to everyone for your help. You are WONDERFUL!!!!!!!
Robert Walters
10-18-2010, 1:18 PM
Thank you to everyone for your help. You are WONDERFUL!!!!!!!

Is the CDR file I posted what you were looking for?
Bonnie Russell
10-18-2010, 3:11 PM
Absolutely. Thanks Robert!!
Vic Harris
10-19-2010, 12:06 PM
or you could have just used the interactive contour tool
Robert Walters
10-19-2010, 3:43 PM
or you could have just used the interactive contour tool

Try it =)
It didn't work for me in Corel 12 or 14.
Vic Harris
10-19-2010, 4:06 PM
x3 it works
Robert Walters
10-19-2010, 4:12 PM
x3 it works

Cool! Mind sharing the wealth of how you did it as well as a sample of the final results?
Mike Null
10-19-2010, 4:59 PM
Where is the interactive contour tool. I have a boundary tool and the usual contour box on X5.
Gary Hair
10-19-2010, 5:16 PM
or you could have just used the interactive contour tool

- I have used the contour docker for a long time but never the interactive tool. The two work completely different. The interactive tool worked perfectly for me, X5, and made an even contour quite easy. Thanks for pointing out this "new" feature.

Gary