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Thank you for your input and help everyone! Egg thanks for the great video and attached file, very thoughtful and it really helped. Graph paper is what I wanted and didn't even know it, now it...

Thanks Gary. Not sure I understand completely.

"You can create your own grid then cut and paste it onto a Guides Layer. It will act like a normal snap to grid."
As a test, I drew a blue line and...

Hi Guys,

I would like to draw flow charts in Xara rather than purchase separate software. One problem I've been having is how best to make use of a grid to evenly distribute spacing between...

Thanks for the suggestion Mike. I am interested to learn though how something like this can be drawn from an idea. Is it about perspective or do you think these were perhaps drawn in a 3d program.

Hi,

I am having difficulty creating the attached 3D business models in vector and struggling with the perspective and angles, both are proving challenging. I initially started by creating a cross...

Wholly Cow...couldn't resist that one:). That's fantastic! I think drawing a bottle is really difficult to do, especially a glass one. Well done.

I will check teh forum again for a tutorial or...

47 Views thus far and no takers....I'm not feeling the love guys:(

Hi guys,

I have been playing around with some of the tuts on vectortuts and I came across one to create a photo realistic milk bottle which is proving really difficult. Its created for Adobe...

Hi Everyone,

Here's my attempt at Gary's excellent MP3 tutorial.

A big thank you to Gary for his dedication in creating them

Any comments greatly appreciated.

Best regards,
Brad

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to follow a tutorial on VectorTuts to create a first aid icon but I've got off to rubbish start. The logo is 3D and I started off using the 3D tool but I'm trying to keep...

Thanks for posting the file Evgeny! You've made it look all too easy. I love the detail.

Wow! That is an incredible rendering!!. I'm interested to learn some of the techniques and shading you used. Would you mind posting the Xara file or part of the illustration.

Thanks in advance,...

Would you mind posting the Xara file so I see how it was put together.

Cheers,
Brad

Thanks for your comments. I should of titled it "Midnight Temptations" and wanted it to have a velvety rich and sophisticated/seductive quality...it didn't start out that way but liked the deep rich...

Hi,

This is my first post in the gallery. I'm no designer but enjoy playing with shapes in xara. I have been following Gary's excellent tutorials for the past few months and has taught me a great...

Here's the official answer from the International Standards Organisation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810

If you need the size in inches, I would create a page using the dimensions in...

I have been reading about the differences in this forum between Xara and Illustrator CS4. It would be great to see the differences first hand if someone would be willing to demonstrate a movie of...

That is fantastic and a great time saver. Thanks for sharing!

Brad

Cursor - I think you've hit the nail on the head about grabbing the magnetic center!. It's also working well for larger circles. I double click the circle, hover over the center and press F2 before...

mmmmhhh...that's interesting. I'm going to have to get my magnifying glass out and investigate.

Thanks for taking the time out to produce the video Egg.

Brad

Great video Egg!

This prompted me to play about with magnetic snapping. I found that a 20pix circle snaps perfectly to the corner of a rectangle. However I tried a larger 40pix circle but it...

Fantastic answers, thank you. I got to a point where I thought I was seeing things!

Brad

Please can someone explain why a faint gap exists between 2 objects after positioning them on exact coordinates?

E.g.
X2, 2cm squares are drawn with no line fill and positioned on top of each...

Thanks for your help Gary and Cursor.

After correcting the center of rotation I also made the line width of the circle the same width as the tick marks and it worked perfectly!

Gary - looking...

Hi Everyone,

I have been following Gary's excellent Tourneau Sports Watch Tutorial, http://www.xaraxone.com/tutorials/nov04/control_panel.htm

I am having a problem with the tick marks not...