divider tool

I'm a long time user of CorelDraw (v11, now) but there is still a lot I 
have to learn about it. The one tool that I would wish someone could 
write a script or utility to implement is a divider tool.

Say I draw a curving line...maybe even a spiral. I often want to divide 
that line into even sections...not break the line up, just make a 
sequence of marks on that line at say, seven to the inch.

In real life I can do this by taking a draftsman's divider and setting 
it to a specified distance and then pivot it along that line.

I'd like to be able to do that in CorelDraw.  I envision a cursor or 
tool with two points...position one point where you want to start and 
then click with the right button, for instance, and a mark or point is 
laid down with the other point.

Anyone know of such a tool already in CD11 or a third party utility that 
will do this?

Thanks

it's possible to blend shapes such as lines evenly along a path:

http://www.unleash.com/jeffh/fitblendtopath/index.asp

jD

DW wrote:
>
> I'm a long time user of CorelDraw (v11, now) but there is still a lot 
> I have to learn about it. The one tool that I would wish someone could 
> write a script or utility to implement is a divider tool.
>
> Say I draw a curving line...maybe even a spiral. I often want to 
> divide that line into even sections...not break the line up, just make 
> a sequence of marks on that line at say, seven to the inch.
>
> In real life I can do this by taking a draftsman's divider and setting 
> it to a specified distance and then pivot it along that line.
>
> I'd like to be able to do that in CorelDraw.  I envision a cursor or 
> tool with two points...position one point where you want to start and 
> then click with the right button, for instance, and a mark or point is 
> laid down with the other point.
>
> Anyone know of such a tool already in CD11 or a third party utility 
> that will do this?
>
> Thanks
>

Jeff,

Thank you. That helped--it's not as simple as I would wish but it works, 
sort of. What I need now is some way to define the distance between the 
points or hash marks.

Is there a way to do that?

And almost as importantly, I wonder if there is some way to show/derive 
the length of a line...like a spiral?

Of course, if I knew the length of the spiral, I could space an x number 
of marks along that line and know how far apart they were.

It's kind of clumsy...at least in my hands...but it's getting there.

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> 
> it's possible to blend shapes such as lines evenly along a path:
> 
> http://www.unleash.com/jeffh/fitblendtopath/index.asp
> 
> jD
> 
> DW wrote:
>>
>> I'm a long time user of CorelDraw (v11, now) but there is still a lot 
>> I have to learn about it. The one tool that I would wish someone could

>> write a script or utility to implement is a divider tool.
>>
>> Say I draw a curving line...maybe even a spiral. I often want to 
>> divide that line into even sections...not break the line up, just make

>> a sequence of marks on that line at say, seven to the inch.
>>
>> In real life I can do this by taking a draftsman's divider and setting

>> it to a specified distance and then pivot it along that line.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to do that in CorelDraw.  I envision a cursor or 
>> tool with two points...position one point where you want to start and 
>> then click with the right button, for instance, and a mark or point is

>> laid down with the other point.
>>
>> Anyone know of such a tool already in CD11 or a third party utility 
>> that will do this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
> 

The Curveworks set of utilities will give you the length of any line along 
with a lot of other features.

http://www.unleash.com/picks/corel/curveworks.asp


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Foster,

Thank you for that. I saw it some time ago but the only tool in that set 
that I have need of or that I have ever thought "gee, that would be 
nice" is the length tool. You would think corel would create something 
similar as a built-in.  Or someone would create a macro or plug-in.

And as for the divider tool...that was really my main concern...I need 
to put "ticks" on an open path at specified intervals. The only way I

have been able to come close is to create a rather stylized drawing of a 
divider with the points set at a specified distance apart (such as 
one-ninth inch), and then sequentially rotate and position it along the 
line, adding my ticks as I go--manually.

Seems like a tool such at that (with greater ease of use, of course) 
would also be a "natural" for any drawing program.

[sigh]

Foster D. Coburn III wrote:
> The Curveworks set of utilities will give you the length of any line along

> with a lot of other features.
> 
> http://www.unleash.com/picks/corel/curveworks.asp
> 
>