blend tool

I have been following Jeff Harrison's tutorial of fitting a blend and a 
question came up:

Supposedly you can set the distance between intermediate objects in a 
blend rather than just the number of steps...but that option does not 
appear to be available.

What am I doing wrong>

HI DW,

You could initially position the blend's "control objects" to known 
points on the page. Then the new objects will spread out evenly between.

Another idea: if you want a specific distance between multiple 
non-blended objects, this does it:

http://macromonster.com/index.php?mod=descr&id_desc=6&

JD

DW wrote:
> I have been following Jeff Harrison's tutorial of fitting a blend and 
> a question came up:
>
> Supposedly you can set the distance between intermediate objects in a 
> blend rather than just the number of steps...but that option does not 
> appear to be available.
>
> What am I doing wrong> 

Thank you Jeff, i hadn't thought of that approach, and I will check out 
the link.

But since you sent me another link in the recent discussion  entitled 
"divider tool," you know that I am trying to space objects a specified

distance apart on a line of indeterminate length...ie., a spiral. So, 
back to my original question--why can't I set the distance between the 
intermediate objects? Why is that "button" grayed out?

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> 
> HI DW,
> 
> You could initially position the blend's "control objects" to
known 
> points on the page. Then the new objects will spread out evenly between.
> 
> Another idea: if you want a specific distance between multiple 
> non-blended objects, this does it:
> 
> http://macromonster.com/index.php?mod=descr&id_desc=6&
> 
> JD
> 
> DW wrote:
>> I have been following Jeff Harrison's tutorial of fitting a blend and 
>> a question came up:
>>
>> Supposedly you can set the distance between intermediate objects in a 
>> blend rather than just the number of steps...but that option does not 
>> appear to be available.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong> 
> 

Hi DW,

see screenshot, blend along full path must be disabled.

Jeff



DW wrote:
>
> I am trying to space objects a specified distance apart on a line of 
> indeterminate length...ie., a spiral. So, back to my original 
> question--why can't I set the distance between the intermediate 
> objects? Why is that "button" grayed out?
>
> Jeff Harrison wrote: 

Jeff,

Thank you for taking the time to respond. I posted a similar question on 
the Graphics Unleashed forum earlier today and shortly after posting it 
I got to re-reading the help files and it dawned on me that enabling 
"blend along full path" was the problem. Once I unchecked that box, I

found I could set the interval.

thanks again for your help...

Looks like your screenshot must be from X3...''cuz it doesn't look like 
anything I see in CorelDraw 11. Is the upgrade really worth it?

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> Hi DW,
> 
> see screenshot, blend along full path must be disabled.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
>