Help creating a shaded, transparent cube in Xara

[dwsmith98]

Hi Xara fans,

I need some help. I cannot figure out how to draw a shaded, transparent cube in Xara. I also need to add perspective to it. [This is so easy in PowerPoint...and I can do it CorelDraw]. I can't believe the Xara folks overlooked this one. Someone please tell me there's a tool for extruding a rectangle into a 3-d image...

tanks,
Dwight

[dwsmith98]

Hi Xara fans,

I need some help. I cannot figure out how to draw a shaded, transparent cube in Xara. I also need to add perspective to it. [This is so easy in PowerPoint...and I can do it CorelDraw]. I can't believe the Xara folks overlooked this one. Someone please tell me there's a tool for extruding a rectangle into a 3-d image...

tanks,
Dwight

[joel]

You might find Gary's Feb. 1999 tutorial helpful.
http://www.xaraxone.com/tutorials/feb99/index.html

[Peter Clifton]

You might want to take a look at.

Although it was written for CorelDRAW pages 1 & 2 contain some magic numbers for creating isometric shapes in any illustration program.

If you substitute a square/rectangle for the shape on page two you can create all the faces of the cube required then manually and the desired shading.

Peter