Line intersection bends

[ghostofthought]

Please help...

I am drawing wiring diagrams in Corel 8.

I often draw a straight line vertically and a strait line horizontally. I need the intersection of those 90o angles to be curved. I have used the curve corners option in the outline tool, but you cant see the curve unless you zoom in very close...

What I would love to find out is if there is a command that would allow me to make two unconnected lines at a 90o, use some kind of connect command, and have the two lines joined with a big curve at the intersection.

Bless anyone who can help, and all the best.

 

[impulselondon]

Though I'm not entirely sure what you mean by rounded intersections, I will recommend two roundabout methods I use for rounded corners.

i) Create a rectangle of a size that will fit inside most of your drawings' intersections - hard to explain...I do it by sight rather than by math - , then round all four corners to match closely the angle you're trying to replicate. Then snap the rectangle's rounded corner into your intersection and convert your lines into curves that match the rectangle's edge. It is very quick with the snap to objects function and with practice.

ii) If the majority of your rounded intersections invlolve at least three contiguous nodes, you can 'set' a rectangle in there to substititute for four lines and four intersections. By converting to curves, you can make a rectangle resemble a single bent line by snapping the northeast nodes to the southwest nodes, or vice-versa.

I hope that made sense - if you need to manipulate each line indivdually later, then this method will not work well; but if the entire image is what counts, then using rectangles instead of indivual lines can save you a lot of time.