Infinity symbol tutorial (for beginners)

[Shadowcat]

This is a beginner's tutorial from effectively a Xara beginner (I've owned a couple of different versions of what is now Xara X/treme over the years -- three if you include the Xara Studio viewer :) -- but I don't often have cause to actually use it, so my skills are permanently rusty).

I wanted to generate an infinity symbol recently, and as is often the case when I use Xara, had to teach myself something about the program along the way. I decided to make a tutorial in case it helped others (or prompted the more experienced crowd to point out the super-easy way I was missing :) (edit: which, naturally, has happened! :) hopefully the methods I used will still be of some use to other novice users, if perhaps only to demonstrate ways of combining shapes together, and making your own moulds!)

I found a couple of completely different methods (I used the first, and discovered the second while playing around later on) and thought I'd write them both up.

[John Rayner]

I do not know if there is an easier way then this... But let's see...

Take the number eight and rotate it 90 degees...

Don't like the look of the eight, pick another font or... convert to shapes and tweak away...

[MerryOtter]

Actually, I can "name that tune" in 5 clicks.

1. Show the grid
2. Snap to the grid
3. Select Shape Editor tool
4. Be sure curved lines is selected
5. Make five clicks on the grid, using a 2 wide x 1 high area, defining the four corners of the infinity symbol

Movie attached

[Shadowcat]

I can't view that video, but the last step was fairly obvious from the description.

Thank you. I knew there would be some dead-simple technique!