Rotating and Sizing on own axis

[craigwojo9]

Program - CorelDraw
Program Version - 12

I'm looking for a way to rotate or size a number of objects. What I need to do is rotate around their own axis. Also I need to size them down around 100%. When this is done they all merge to the grouped area and move from their original spot (x and y pos.)
I know of the 3rd party program ISOCalc and it's addon utilities, but I'm using CorelDraw 12 and it doesn't support that version.
I've been using CorelDraw since version 5 and still they haven't utilized this feature.
The reason I'm asking is maybe someone has a way around this or maybe after 10 years of using CorelDraw I'm still no aware of how to do this.

Thank you,
Craig

 

[impulselondon]

Select the objects you want to rotate using shift+click. Once they're all selected, carefully click once more one one object - if done correctly, the objects will convert to the rotate handles instead of the selection handles. Then when you rotate one, they will all rotate at the same rate.
The default rotation is around an object's centre 'axis', so unless you change the centrepoint or group the objects together, they should rotate in the same position around their own centres.

If the clicking ain't working (it's hit and miss with my mouse), just use the text box up top to manually enter a rotational degree once they're all selected.

Hope that helps.

 

[craigwojo9]

Thank you

What about re-sizing?

Thank you,
Craig

 

[mokaplanjr]

Have you tried grouping the objects first? Then, do a second click to get the rotate handles; grab the axis pivot point (the little target) in the center of the group and move it to recenter a new axis. Now the whole group will rotate around the moved pivot point, kind of like Curly spinning on one shoulder (whoop-b-b-b-whoop!)

You can resize the group as well. When done, ungroup the objects if you need to further edit any of them individually. Also, you can select individual objects in groups, without ungrouping, by holding the control button and clicking the grouped objects; as you keep control/clicking, you will "drill down" to the desired object in a group. (You can tell which object is selected this way by the resize handles appearing as round dots instead of squares.) Like ImpulseLondon said, you need to carefully shift/click if the objects are close to others you want left alone.

If you are having trouble selecting a particular object, you can tab through the objects (shift tabbing tabs in reverse direction). Or you can pick objects in the object manager.

Happy clicking.