Corel Draw 12 Tool Box Notes
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Exploring the toolbox
The toolbox contains tools for cartoon and editing images. Some of the tools are visible by default, while others are grouped in flyouts. Flyouts open up to display a set of related CorelDRAW tools. A small flyout pointer in the lower-right corner of a toolbox push button indicates a flyout. You tin can access the tools in a flyout by clicking the flyout arrow. After you open a flyout, you can easily scan the contents of other flyouts by hovering over whatsoever of the toolbox buttons which have flyout arrows. Flyouts office like toolbars when you drag them abroad from the toolbox. This lets you view all the related tools while you work.
In the default workspace, clicking the flyout arrow on the Shape tool opens the Shape edit flyout.
Some tools in the toolbox are not visible by default. You lot can cull which tools to display in the toolbox.
Locating tools in the toolbox
The following analogy shows the other flyouts in the default CorelDRAW toolbox and tin can help you locate tools more easily.
To toggle between displaying and hiding the toolbox, click Window 
To hide or brandish tools in the toolbox, click the Quick customize push button 
The following tabular array provides descriptions of the tools in the CorelDRAW toolbox.
| | The Pick tool lets you select, size, skew, and rotate objects. | |
| | The Freehand pick tool lets you lot select objects by using a freehand selection marquee. | |
| | The Free transform tool lets you transform an object by using the Free rotation, Free bending reflection, Gratis scale, and Costless skew tools. | |
| | The Shape tool lets y'all edit the shape of objects. | |
| | The Smooth tool lets you polish curved objects to remove jagged edges and reduce the number of nodes. | |
| | The Smear tool lets you lot shape an object past pulling extensions or making indents along its outline. | |
| | The Twirl tool lets y'all create swirl furnishings past dragging along the edge of objects. | |
| | The Concenter tool lets you shape objects by attracting nodes to the cursor. | |
| | The Repel tool lets you shape objects by pushing away nodes from the cursor. | |
| | The Smudge tool lets y'all distort a vector object by dragging forth its outline. | |
| | The Roughen tool lets yous distort the outline of a vector object by dragging along the outline. | |
| | The Crop tool lets you remove unwanted areas in objects. | |
| | The Knife tool lets you slice objects, groups of objects, and bitmaps along any path you specify. | |
| | The Virtual segment delete tool lets you delete portions of objects that are betwixt intersections. | |
| | The Eraser tool lets you remove areas of your drawing. | |
| | The Zoom tool lets yous modify the magnification level in the drawing window. | |
| | The Pan tool lets you control which office of the drawing is visible in the drawing window. | |
| | The Freehand tool lets you depict single line segments and curves. | |
| | The 2-point line tool lets you lot describe a direct two-betoken line segment. | |
| | The Bézier tool lets you depict curves one segment at a time. | |
| | The Pen tool lets you draw curves one segment at a time. | |
| | The B-spline tool lets you draw curved lines by setting control points that shape the bend without breaking information technology into segments. | |
| | The Polyline tool lets you draw lines and curves in preview mode. | |
| | The 3-point curve tool lets you draw a curve by defining the first, end, and center points. | |
| | The Smart drawing tool converts your freehand strokes to bones shapes and smoothed curves. | |
| | The LiveSketch tool lets yous sketch naturally with intelligent stroke aligning. | |
| | The Artistic media tool provides access to the Preset, Brush, Sprayer, Calligraphic, and Expression tools. | |
| | The Rectangle tool lets you lot describe rectangles and squares. | |
| | The 3-point rectangle tool lets you describe rectangles at an bending. | |
| | The Ellipse tool lets you draw ellipses and circles. | |
| | The iii-point ellipse tool lets yous draw ellipses at an angle. | |
| | The Polygon tool lets you lot draw symmetrical polygons and stars. | |
| | The Star tool lets you lot draw perfect stars. | |
| | The Complex star tool lets you lot describe circuitous stars that have intersecting sides. | |
| | The Graph paper tool lets yous draw a grid of lines like to that on graph paper. | |
| | The Screw tool lets yous draw symmetrical and logarithmic spirals. | |
| | The Basic shapes tool lets y'all choose from a total set of shapes, including hexagram, a smiley face, and a correct-angle triangle. | |
| | The Pointer shapes tool lets you draw arrows of various shape, direction, and number of heads. | |
| | The Flowchart shapes tool lets you draw flowchart symbols. | |
| | The Banner shapes tool lets you draw ribbon objects and explosion shapes. | |
| | The Callout shapes tool lets you draw callouts and labels. | |
| | The Text tool lets you type words directly on the screen as creative or paragraph text. | |
| | The Tabular array tool lets yous draw and edit tables. | |
| | The Parallel dimension tool lets you draw slanted dimension lines. | |
| | The Horizontal or vertical dimension tool lets you lot draw horizontal or vertical dimension lines. | |
| | The Athwart dimension tool lets yous draw angular dimension lines. | |
| | The Segment dimension tool lets you display the distance between end nodes in single or multiple segments. | |
| | The 3-betoken callout tool lets you draw a callout with a two-segment leader line. | |
| | The Straight-line connector tool lets y'all depict a directly connector line. | |
| | The Right-angle connector tool lets you draw a correct angle connector line. | |
| | The Rounded right-angle connector tool lets you draw a correct-angle connector line with curved corners. | |
| | The Edit anchor tool lets you modify connector line anchor points. | |
| | The Driblet shadow tool lets you apply a drop shadow to an object. | |
| | The Profile tool lets yous apply a contour to an object. | |
| | The Alloy tool lets you alloy two objects. | |
| | The Distort tool lets you employ a Push or Pull distortion, a Zipper distortion, or a Twister distortion to an object. | |
| | The Envelope tool lets you shape an object by dragging the nodes of the envelope. | |
| | The Extrude tool lets y'all utilise the illusion of depth to objects. | |
| | The Transparency tool lets you apply transparencies to objects. | |
| | The Color eyedropper tool lets you select and re-create a colour from an object on the drawing window or the desktop. | |
| | The Attributes eyedropper tool lets yous select and copy object properties, such every bit line thickness, size and furnishings, from an object on the cartoon window. | |
| | The Interactive fill tool lets you lot apply various fills. | |
| | The Mesh make full tool lets you lot use a mesh grid to an object. | |
| | The Smart fill tool lets you create objects from enclosed areas and then apply a fill to those objects. | |
| | The Outline tool opens a flyout that gives you quick access to items such every bit the Outline pen dialog box and Outline color dialog box. | |
| | The Fill tool opens a flyout that gives you quick admission to items such as the fill dialog boxes. | |
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