Fill 'er Up?

[Erik Heyninck]

the same kind of four lines drawing in CorelDRAW9 and saved as .AI.
I opened it in Xara, grouped, added shapes and applied break shapes. No problem. Works perfectly.

If you don't work against time, time often works for you.

[ken tompkins]

I must have missed a step, Eric, because I also traced the original but I didn't do what you did. I'll try it tonight.

Thanks again....

ken tompkins

[gwpriester]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> I ask because I thought when I read it that it was an "answer to my prayers". Yet when I try it on the picture below, I get all sorts of "random" filling. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ken

Have you tried converting all the lines to shapes (Arrange > Convert Line to Shape), the Combine Shapes > Add Shapes (Arrange menu).

Then select the shape and break shapes (Arrange menu). You will have a large solid background, which you can delete and have all the inside pieces left.

Gary

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[Ross Macintosh]

I tried an initial .wmf import from autocad but the xara stopped responding when I tried to add together the 4000 objects that came in with the .wmf file. I suppose I should have used a file with far fewer lines.

I then tried the technique using lines created when I overlayed two line-to-line blends. (The blends were converted to editable shapes and all lines were grouped together). The image that resulted from the technique can be found here in the Xara Gallery Forum.

Regards, Ross

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[joroho]

This is not intended to be an impressive piece of work, just a demonstration of applying this technique to quickshapes. You can imagine the impressive pieces you could put together with a little time and effort.

.joroho.

[rsallen]

Playing with the shadows, ungrouping the shapes and moving them around can produce some interesting results. Neat Tip! Thanks Big Frank and Ross! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

Randy Allen

[Thomas.Sorrill]

You can use any of the brushes to create the lines as well...like this rather interesting, albeit, ultimately useless design.

T

[Penny O'Rorke]

....a very nice doormat - Penny