September in the Xara Xone - Tutorials - Featured Artist & More

[John Rayner]

Pretty Nice Bob...

Bet your boy liked it alot!

So has he asked when you are gonna get one just like it for him?

[wW]

Pretty cool car.

I've got ta get me one of those! Slap a Ford label on it & I'm good ta go...

[joroho]

Apart from the initial wheels outlines (I figured were easier to create in Corel Draw)Bob Sommerville

Good work, Bob. I'm curious what it is about Corel Draw that made the wheels easier to draw in that app?

.joroho.

[gwpriester]

I'm not Bob but I can think of one way in which it would be easier. It would be a lot easier to create the spoke object, rotate it from the center of the circle then use Corel's Ctrl R (as in repeat) to do the rest of the spokes.

Gary

[John Rayner]

I would have just done a circle for the "spokes" and a profiled line for the black between the spokes... then create a rightclick clones around the center. 2 minutes...

[Bob Sommerville]

Hi all...Thank you for the comments. I am aware that we can draw spoked wheels or radially space objects pretty quickly in Xarax also..I just chose to do it in Corel Draw as it was a spur of the moment diversion from normal commercial work. I use both programs each complementing the other as required.

The attached Mini Cooper was created in Xarax using a photograph and the wheels were drawn in Xara. There is quite a bit of detail when viewed up close. Undoubtedly though Xarax is my choice for this type of drawing because of its intuitive response to the creative "flow" that develops while working on the sublect.

once again thanks for your feedabck

Bob

[wW]

Yea there's a little math involved but once you get a couple spokes in there you can rotate the bunch, keep grabbing & rotating, it goes rather quick.

[gwpriester]

After you do wW's math and determine a degree of rotation between spokes, you can set the angle of rotation in the Page Options > General section to that amount.

Then double click on the spoke, drag the center of rotation bullseye to the center of the wheel, hold down the Ctrl key (to constrain the rotation to the amount you specified) and drag, right button click to drop a duplicate, drag, right button click, drag zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Gary

[Bob Sommerville]

Hi..this is wheelie interesting!.. I appreciate that all of us have a preferred way of working...I find it very productive to flick between Corel and Xarax to use whatever does the job best.

Below is another way I have often used to create a wheel in Xara that is very quick and the finishing tools allow some very nice effects.

Bob Sommerville

[John Rayner]

that is what is so great about xara.. the simpler the task, the more ways there are to do it. Excellent drawing app...