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Polyline tool in Corel12. Anyone found a specific use for it? or am I not getting the point.
I thought it might save me some time drawing geological contacts and break intersection points and rejoin segments automatically like the "polygonizer" in microstation.
Broacher
11-19-2004, 07:39 AM
I just tried it myself for the first time last night. I'm not exactly sure what you're describing with this 'polygonizer' tool, but Corel's PL tool is not a knife tool for intersecting joints-- as far as I can see it's just another alternative line drawing tool. The application where I can see it helping might be in tracing a bitmap into vector-- particularly if you're not too confident with the pen tool--which I gotta say, is a major new, and very usable tool. And in any case, it's a good sign to me that Corel is continuing to push the development and innovation of the tools that mean the most to the most-- basic drawing construction tools. It's not something I see a lot of in other drawing apps. I'm also secretly hoping that some of the other technical drawing tools that come with that other Corel Tech Drawing package (what's it called again?) will work their way over to the CDraw package.
tech drawing package? must have a look at that
Broacher
11-19-2004, 05:51 PM
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Products/Home&pid=1047022702469
broacher.............come clean...........you own shares in corel.........right?
Broacher
11-19-2004, 07:34 PM
That's a good way of putting it. Yeah-- any application you reach a certain mastery of, you own a share of it. But I also own a lot of such shares in Illustrator, Photoshop, PageMaker, InDesign. But of all these apps, Corel has, since day one, been the only one where I have seen rapid and solid response to user-generated suggestions that they have actively recruited. Including some of my own! Maybe it's the little guy thing. I dunno... but I do know that Corel looks at working with their stuff completely different from Adobe. There's always at least 3 or 4 ways to do the same thing. Their UI is amazingly customizable and standardized across their suite (much more than anything current from Adobe). Yeah, they add tons of features, but you can pick and choose what suits you. And they concentrate on making the UI interactive wherever they can. Minimizing delays to dboxes, etc.
If there is one universal complaint about Corel files is that they're produced by Corel users. Who are, I admit, are by comparison with the 'historical Adobe user', on average, way underqualified to be playing with what they're playing with. But even Adobe admits, by its recent marketing strategies, that this is where the future lies.... stupidity!
Now that's an investment I'd be willing to put my money on.
Oops. Wait a sec... already did!