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Extruded 3D Sunflower and Flowerpot Xara Xtreme Tutorial

Rotate the ellipse you created a few steps back to the vertical position. (Key in 90 in the Angle of Selection text entry box on the Infobar and press Enter or hold down the Ctrl key and free rotate the ellipse until it snaps into place at 90 degrees).

Add a vertical line with the Shape Editor Tool to a height of about 235 pixels and center the line through the center of the ellipse. Add three evenly spaced diagonal lines. Clone the three lines and press the Flip Horizontally icon. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move the lines left or right to create the center illustration.

Select the center line with the Selector Tool then switch to the Shape Editor Tool. Select the bottom control point (shown above in red outline) and move it to the left. Drag the line with the Shape Editor Tool to curve the line as shown above right.

Select and move the diagonal lines so that they are centered along the curved line.

 

Extruded 3D Sunflower and Flowerpot Xara Xtreme Tutorial

Select the lines. Open the Line Gallery (F12). Change the Width to 6pix and press Apply.

Select Round Cap from the End Cap drop down list.

Open the Stroke Shapes folder and select Fallout. Press Apply.

With all the stroked lines select Arrange > Convert Line to Shape. Then Arrange > Combine Shapes > Add Shapes or press Ctrl 1. This creates a single shape shown above.