What I would like to do is to take two curves and make them follow eachother, I'm trying to make a curved arrow, but the only way I know of to make this curve true is to create a circle and then try to attach the arrow to the circle. I want both sides of this arrow to attach, the outside to attach to an outside circle and the inner circle of the arrow to attach to another circle I have inside to make the inner of the curved arrow real?
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Pls someone I need some help on this matter, someone pls help me this is a sample image of the two objects that I want to make, but I cannot just make them in corel and then resize them I want them to perfectly semetrical.
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cobrien11
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jfreak53,
Assuming you want to make the arrow exactly as the sample:
Draw a circle with the ellipse tool (holding down ctrl while drawing it will constrain it to a perfect circle). Duplicate the circle (+) and resize the duplication to the required inner circle size (hold down ctrl again). With the inner circle selected click arrange/shaping/trim and then select the outer circle. You should now have a doughnut.
Create the arrow head (ensure that it is larger than the sides of the doughnut) by deforming a square and place to one side of the circle, duplicate and rotate the arrow head and move to the other side. Align all objects (arrange/align & distribute). With the arrow heads selected trim from the doughnut. You may, depending on your settings, have duplicates of some objects, delete them.
Hope this helps.
Assuming you want to make the arrow exactly as the sample:
Draw a circle with the ellipse tool (holding down ctrl while drawing it will constrain it to a perfect circle). Duplicate the circle (+) and resize the duplication to the required inner circle size (hold down ctrl again). With the inner circle selected click arrange/shaping/trim and then select the outer circle. You should now have a doughnut.
Create the arrow head (ensure that it is larger than the sides of the doughnut) by deforming a square and place to one side of the circle, duplicate and rotate the arrow head and move to the other side. Align all objects (arrange/align & distribute). With the arrow heads selected trim from the doughnut. You may, depending on your settings, have duplicates of some objects, delete them.
Hope this helps.
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Well it seem to work but not totaly maybe I'm not doing it right this is what I have right now but when I trim it the edges stay there?
cobrien11
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- Jul 14, 2000
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jfreak53,
The arrow heads need to be objects not lines.
See attached.
The arrow heads need to be objects not lines.
See attached.
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Thanks alot it's now working just fine, and I've figured out how you did it this is the final version I was trying to make:
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