Corel Question - How To Find Vertical or Horizontal Curve Segments

[Kev Williams]

The only macro I ever created, mostly just to see what it would do, was to automatically put guidelines at 4" from left and 2" from the top. (That's my LS900 "0" until I get my X belt replaced)
--problem is, to find and activate the macro takes more steps than just putting the lines in manually!

One of these days I may find the time to learn this stuff!

[Lee DeRaud]

--problem is, to find and activate the macro takes more steps than just putting the lines in manually!

As I recall, there's a way to set up a macro so it auto-executes every time a file is opened.

[Gary Hair]

The only macro I ever created, mostly just to see what it would do, was to automatically put guidelines at 4" from left and 2" from the top. (That's my LS900 "0" until I get my X belt replaced)
--problem is, to find and activate the macro takes more steps than just putting the lines in manually!

One of these days I may find the time to learn this stuff!

You can either have it execute when you open the file or add it to the toolbar and just click on it - either way is pretty easy to setup.

[Mike DeRegnaucourt]

In this case it needs to traverse the drawing looking for curves, then walk the segments of each curve looking for straight-line segments that have identical X or Y coordinates. There are some tricks required to deal with curves embedded in groups and things like that, but on the whole the process is relatively simple. There's a PDF buried somewhere in the install directory tree that describes the general macro development process with some useful examples.

Lee, that is how I was thinking the same sort of idea as to how it might be accomplished too. I started looking at the VBA PDF that came with my Corel CDs. Thank you for the link! I will check it out.

Thanks again for the ideas and help.