You can have labels automatically numbered, and have a hotspot drawn as part of the label to make it clearer what the line is pointing to. If you're using an imported CAD diagram that has information like part names, component numbers or even costs, you can automatically add those to the label. There are new options for creating those labels as well. SEE: Guide to Becoming a Digital Transformation Champion (TechRepublic Premium)Ĭhoose whether to create callouts by typing in labels, pasting text or with sequential numbers. Now you can just pick the 'Thick and thin' drawing mode and choose the style set you want for each side (thin, medium, thick, centre or no line at all) the style will be applied automatically to match the isometric projection and the curve, rectangle or ellipsis you draw will automatically look as if it has depth. In an isometric drawing, using a thin line for one side of a circle and a thick line for the other side gives the illusion of depth, but drawing those manually usually takes a lot of steps (cutting the circle in half or drawing two curves and joining them). There are two new illustration features in DESIGNER that will save a lot of time in engineering diagrams. Designer also gets a tool for quickly making inner shadows that run around the inside edge of an object to give the illusion of depth, and you can feather transparency at the edge of both bitmap and vector objects to help them blend in to the rest of the design.īut when you're working on a technical illustration and pulling in CAD assets to base it on, you'll do that in DESIGNER and when you're making a brochure that uses those technical drawings to illustrate or explain the final product, you'll pull them into CorelDRAW to do the layout.
There are some tasks you could do in either application, and DESIGNER has the same new image upsampling, JPEG artefact removal and powerful tracing to turn bitmap images into vector illustrations that we liked in CorelDRAW. Logging in to leave comments about a design online is useful, but confusing without the right subscription. The interfaces are similar - the icons for opening files, saving to Corel Cloud and picking colours are the same, for example - but the mix of tools is different. Rather than adding in all the features of CorelDRAW, Corel develops both packages separately and bundles them so that you can use them together. While CorelDRAW is a general illustration package, DESIGNER's strength is creating engineering drawings, and documentation based on them. The subscription price includes the same CorelDRAW.app online collaboration tools as the main CorelDRAW suite, which is useful but ultimately disappointing because the complex process for logging in to leave comments on a design if you don't have the appropriate CorelDRAW subscription will have most people asking for screenshots by email instead.Ĭorel DESIGNER is the latest version of what used to be Micrografx Designer, and it's now only available as part of the Technical Suite.
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The extra software puts the price up: a perpetual licence is £944 ($999) and £405 ($429) for an upgrade, or £469 ($499) for a subscription licence. Even the installer reminds you that CorelDRAW Technical Suite is for a different kind of illustration.
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