How I can make a simple spiral into XARA X ??? help me please

[Penny O'Rorke]

Have just looked at yr. 'spiral' site - fantastic! They'd look great as prints - really effective. Also, loved your Featured Artist pages, esp. the Harwich ones - I lived near there as a child and found them very nostalgic. Thanks, Penny

[Egg Bramhill]

Penny
Thans for the comments. If you are interested in Harwich you can view harwich web siteIt's a site I do for the Harwich Society, graphics made exclusively with Xara. Sorry to post this here but you have'nt got an email in your profile
Egg

[schallow]

Make in CorelDRAW! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[Egg Bramhill]

Fontman.
Okay you can produce the spiral in Corel Draw far easier, but what control do you have on the spiral? Can you make it dissapear with depth etc. Can you apply the other effects that are so easy in Xara X ?
I don't know, I had Draw 4 once and it was so painful I coul'nt use it.
Egg

[TerrieLee]

Thanks for sharing your spiral file, Egg! I also checked out "spirals", [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img] Too cool! I especially like the second to last one!
TerrieLee [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[Sean Sedwards]

It's possible to create spirals of arbitrary size using the Shape Editor Tool by starting at the middle with the following simple pattern of nodes.

Using a suitable grid spacing, choose Window > Show Grid, ... > Snap to Grid and zoom in to see the grid marks. With the Make curve 'C' button pressed and calling your first point (0,0), add points in the following order: (1,-1), (0,-2), (-2,-1) (the pattern will be a lot clearer if you try and copy the attachment). Thereafter, simply space the new point 2 grid units away from the previous point on that side of the spiral.

The last line segment doesn't curve in the correct way automatically, so either push it into shape with the same tool or draw one extra segment and break the line at the previous node.

Regards - Sean

[adil.h]

There's a freeware font called Omega Swirls which you can download from the Dingbat Pages:

http://www.dingbatpages.com/ornament/ornament03.html

If the spiral shape isn't quite right, you can always stretch, rotate, size or skew it once it's in Xara.

Regards - Adil

[FrankMcAree]

In the past I've used a Maths program that outputs the graphs as wmfs for this type of work. There's plenty of shareware ones out there. I've got a thing called Mathview from Mathwizards.com , but it may be a bit techie for some - you have to program in the equations.