Features Explained:
• Remove Overlap
• Remove Intersections
• Connect Curves
• Join Curves
• Fuse Curves
• Explode
• Cut Curves
• Fillet
• Chamfer
• Cleanup Nodes
• Curve Statistics

Oberon CurveWorks for CorelDRAW/Corel DESIGNER

Oberon CurveWorks is a set of professional quality macros for working with curves in CorelDRAW and Corel DESIGNER. These macros add some missing CAD features to CorelDRAW/Corel DESIGNER and help improve document editing workflow.

Now it's possible to do more technical-oriented graphic work without using AutoCAD or other expensive packages.

Features

Oberon CurveWorks 1.2 includes the following components:

• Remove Overlap and Remove Intersections: remove overlapping areas of a curve:
   
  
   
  
   
• Connect Curves and Join Curves: join open curves together to form a single closed curve:
   
  
   
• Fuse Curves: joins open curves whose endpoints coincide.
• Explode: breaks apart curves so each segment becomes an independent curve object.
• Cut Curves: divides curves at each intersection point:
   
  
   
• Fillet and Chamfer: create round/beveled corners for any cusp curve node:
   
  
   
• Cleanup Nodes: removes any overlapping nodes
• Curve Statistics: reports the total curve length and area as well as other curve information.

System Requirements

CurveWorks for CorelDRAW 11/12/X3 and Corel DESIGNER 10/12:

A retail version of CorelDRAW 11-X3 or later or Corel DESIGNER 10/12 is required.

You must ensure that Visual Basic for Applications is installed along with CorelDRAW / Corel DESIGNER.

CurveWorks for CorelDRAW 10:

This program requires CorelDRAW 10 Service Pack 1 (10.427) or later. Correct functioning under the original release of CorelDRAW 10 (10.410) is not guaranteed. This program will not run under earlier versions of CorelDRAW.

If you don't have the latest version of CorelDRAW 10, download the service pack(s) from Corel web site: http://www.corel.com/support/ftpsite/pub/coreldraw/draw10suite/index.htm

You have to have Visual Basic for Applications installed to run this program. VBA is not installed by default with CorelDRAW 10 Graphics suite. You need to do a custom installation and choose to install VBA. You can run the VBA install manually by running the vba6.msi installation package from \Corel\Graphics10\Config\Redist\VBA6 folder of the CorelDRAW 10 CD#1.

Download

Download Oberon CurveWorks for the appropriate version of CorelDRAW/DESIGNER by following one of the links below:

If you don't want to use the supplied CurveWorks workspace but instead you would like to add CurveWorks buttons to your existing workspace manually, then you can download the toolbar button icons:

• icons.zip (2K) [11 images]

Installation

Run the setup program and it should install all the files for you automatically. Make sure that you have VBA installed beforehand. The setup program also creates a new workspace that is automatically made active. You can revert to your previous workspace by just going to Tools>Options>Workspace in CorelDRAW and selecting the workspace that you want.

Launching CurveWorks

To launch Oberon CurveWorks, start CorelDRAW first. If during installation you specified that you wanted to activate CurveWorks workspace in CorelDRAW, you will see a new toolbar and menu section:

You can use various CurveWorks commands by selecting the corresponding buttons in the menu or toolbar or by using the associated shortcut keys.

If you didn't activate the workspace during installation, you still can use CurveWorks by going to Tools>Visual Basic>Play... menu to bring up the VBA Macros dialog:

Select "CurveWorks (CurveWorks13.gms)" item from Macros in list and start the corresponding macro by selecting it in Macro name list and clicking Run button.

Registration

Oberon CurveWorks is a shareware product. It is fully functional in the downloaded version however it has an evaluation period of 14 days. You need to register the program to continue using it. The registration fee is US$49.95.

The same registration number can be used to install CurveWorks for CorelDRAW 10, 11, 12, X3 or Corel DESIGNER 10, 12.

Register CurveWorks online:

• Register Oberon CurveWorks through RegNow using a secure server
• Click here for alternative payment method.

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