I love the new Extrude Tool

**carygee** · 07 April 2008, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by sledger

Use the 'Perspective' selection'

Thanks. But rather wimpy perspective, eh?

**steve.ledger** · 07 April 2008, 08:38 PM

That depends on how determined and inventive you are

..a little rough... but you should get the point (no pun intended

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**gray** · 07 April 2008, 09:50 PM

Wow, lots of cool work done with this new version.

**ss-kalm** · 08 April 2008, 02:26 PM

Nice work Steve. Would you be able to do the same thing with text?

**steve.ledger** · 08 April 2008, 08:50 PM

...I expect so Keith

**ss-kalm** · 08 April 2008, 08:55 PM

You're too good! You must explain how you did that. Offhand I can't think of a way, but I'm very much a novice with Xara.

**steve.ledger** · 08 April 2008, 09:10 PM

Keith it's not as difficult as it may seem - quite the opposite.

Simply create your extruded object apply a full perspective value of 64.
Now clone your object, scale it down, set to back and align it to the tail of the top object until it matches..

Continue this process untill you run out of zoom levels

Once grouped you can duplicate them and rotate as necessary with the axis set to the tail (vanishing point).
Then play with the colours if you like.

**Xhris** · 09 April 2008, 12:59 AM

Yes, it is marvelous. I needed to draw a box for something and boxes are a pain in the arm to draw and get perspectives right etc. Two objects, two minutes and a nicely lit box with the extrude tool. Plus the .xar file is almost a factor of 3 times smaller than the jpg.