Xpres Cut Plus: Ultragraphics Roland GX-24 Manual - Manual (Page 13)

Using CorelDRAW’s drawing tools and drawing cut lines
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to produce cut lines around your designs within corelDRAW you will need to use two different tools, the “Bezier tool” and the
“shape tool”. these are located in your standard tool bar usually located on the left hand side in corelDRAW.
the bezier tool is in the fourth (or fifth on corel X3 and X4) tool down
and is the second tool in the flyout menu as shown here.
When using the bezier tool, every time you click the mouse corelDRAW will place a “node” on screen and join a straight line
to the next node that you place on screen.
When you have placed your points in a rough shape around the design as in Example 1, you reach the first point you placed
down. the cursor will change showing that corelDRAW will close the curve. click on the first point to close the curve.
now that you have a basic cut line positioned over the logo you now need to curve the lines to match the shape of the logo.
You now use the “shape tool”
once you have selected the shape tool you then need to click on the straight line that needs to be curved, you will notice
that the whole line you have drawn will turn dotted this means that you have selected the line to be shaped, you then need to
click on the line again, now you will notice that a spot has now appeared on the line where you have just clicked, this means
that the line is now active.
now you will notice that since you have made the line active the toolbar illustrated below has appeared at the top of your
screen.
the tool highlighed above is the next tool that we will
use, the “convert to curves” tool. once you click on this
tool the line will turn into a curve and you will now be able
to click and drag the line to make it match the shape that
you are drawing the cutline for, you will see that there are
also two handles that move with the curve as you
manipulate it, these handles allow you to fine tune the
curve to exactly match your requirements.
You will then need to repeat the process for any other lines
in the design that need to be curved to give you a nice smooth
curve all around the design. this will then give you a nice clean
cut when the job is sent to the cutter.