CorelDraw
Changing the Width of the Vector Line
By Mike Clarke
Apr 9, 2003, 21:06

Changing the Width of the Vector Line

When you need to do a vector cut on a laser it is imperative that the line width on your vector line should be .001 thousand of an inch. By default in CorelDraw the line width is .003 of an inch. You need to select the line and change the width to .001. If you do not your vector line will engrave as a raster line instead of a vector or cut out line.

How do we change the width of a vector line?

1. Create your image. Figure 1 shows that we have drawn a star.
2. The next step is to select the image.

Figure 1

3. Next we need to select the pen outline box.

Pen Width Box

This is shown in figure 1 (red box). The tool bar in figure 1 will fly-out as long as you click on the black arrow while holding down the left mouse button. If you want you can drag it out to the work area as the above box indicates in figure 1.
4. Now click on the pen tool. See Figure 2 blue box.

Figure 2

5. Next the dialogue box in figure 3 comes up. This is where you can change the line width, colour etc. In this case we want a line width of .001 of an inch.

Figure 3

6. We now have a vector line that will engrave on our laser.

Changing the Default Line Width

7. If you want to change the default line width to .001 all you need to do is follow the above steps except do not select anything.
8. When you change the line width to .001 as per Figure 3 CorelDraw will present you with the following dialogue box. See Figure 3.

Figure 4

9. Make sure that only the “Graphic” option is checked. This means that only graphic objects such as box, circles etc will have the vector outline. By checking the other options you will apply an outline to any artistic or paragraph text.
10. Click okay









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