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March 2006 Xara Xtreme Tutorial

Select the 5 lines and using the up and down arrow keys, move the lines up or down until the center of the lines is aligned with the center of the third row of triangles. With the five lines selected, press Ctrl k (Clone). Enter 90 in the Angle of Selection text entry box on the Infobar (shown highlighted in yellow above) and press Enter to rotate the lines.

 

March 2006 Xara Xtreme Tutorial

Drag a guideline onto the screen from the screen rulers (Ctrl L to display rulers). The guideline does not need to be near the triangles. I'll explain the need for this in a moment.

Select all 10 lines and group them (Ctrl g) and then Cut them to the clipboard (Ctrl x or Edit > Cut).

Open the Layer Gallery (F10) and click on the title bar for Guides. From the Edit menu, select Paste in Place or press Shift Ctrl v, to place the lines on the Guides layer. The lines will now appear as dashed red lines and will have the same snap to effect as a guideline.

NOTE: When you drag a guideline onto the page, Snap to Guidelines is automatically enabled.

Select Layer 1 by clicking its title bar and press the X on the top right to close the gallery.

NOTE: The reason we dragged a guideline onto the screen is to make the Guides layer available. If there are no guidelines on the screen, the Guides layer will not appear.

 

March 2006 Xara Xtreme Tutorial

Think of this next step as a Zen mind relaxing exercise. Select each triangle first with the Selector Tool (F2) and then switch to the Shape Editor Tool (F4 ). Drag the appropriate control points for each triangle to the intersection of the guidelines as shown above in 4 steps. Move on to the next 4 triangles and repeat. Continue this relaxing exercise until all the triangles have been arranged or until you achieve Satori.

TIP: Press the Space Bar to toggle back and forth between tools. This works with every tool but the Text Tool.

After you have modified all the triangles, save your drawing and take a well deserved short eye break.

 

 

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