CorelDraw Tools

Here is a list of the basic tools of CorelDRAW's interface. To view animation of how it works, just click on the icon or the name of the tool. These icon were based on CorelDRAW X5 interface.

Icon	Click links below	What does it do?
	Pick tool	Select, positions and transforms an object.
	Shape Tool	Edit a curve object or text character by manipulating nodes.
	Smudge Brush Tool	Change the shape of an object by dragging along its outline.
	Roughen Brush Tool	Distort the edge of an object by dragging along its outline.
	Free Transform Tool	Rotates, skew, mirror and scale objects.
	Crop Tool	Remove the areas outside a selection.
	Knife Tool	Slice an object to split it into two separate objects.
	Erase Tool	Remove unwanted areas in a drawing.
	Virtual Segment Delete tool	Lets you delete portions of objects that are between intersection.
	Zoom tool	Change the magnification level of the document window.
	Pan tool	Drag hidden areas of a drawing into view without changing the zoom level.
	Freehand tool	Draw curves and straight line segments.
	2-Point Line tool	Draw a straight line by drawing from the starting point to the end point.
	Bezier tool	Draw curves one segment at a time.
	Artistic Media tool	Add artistic brush, spray and calligraphic effects by using freehand strokes.
	Pen tool	Draw curves in segments, and preview each segment as you draw.
	B-Spline tool	Draw curved lines by setting control points that shape the curve without breaking it into segments.
	Polyline tool	Draw connected curves and straight lines in one continuous action.
	3-Point Curve tool	Draw a curve by dragging from starting point to the endpoint and then positioning the center point.
	Smart Fill tool	Create objects from overlapping areas, and apply a fill to those objects.
	Smart Drawing tool	Convert freehand strokes to basic shapes or smoothed curves.
	Rectangle tool	Draw squares and rectangles by dragging in the drawing window.
	3-Point Rectangule tool	Draw rectangles at an angle.
	Ellipse tool	Draw circles and ellipses by dragging in the drawing window.
	3-Point Ellipse tool	Draw ellipses at an angle.
	Polygon tool	Draw polygons by dragging in the drawing window.
	Star tool	Draw uniform, outlined star.
	Complex Star tool	Draw stars that have intersecting sides.
	Graph Paper tool	Draw a grid.
	Spiral tool	Draw symmetrical and logarithmic spirals.
	Basic Shapes tool	Draw triangles, circles, cylinders, hearts, and other shapes.
	Arrow Shapes tool	Draw arrows of various shape and direction.
	Flowchart Shapes tool	Draw flowchart symbols.
	Banner Shapes tool	Draw ribbon objects and explosion shapes.
	Callout Shapes tool	Draw labels and speech bubbles.
	Text tool	Add and edit paragraph and artistic text.
	Table tool	Draw, select, and edit tables.
	Parrallel Dimension tool	Draw slanted dimension lines.
	Horizontal or Vertical Dimension	Draw horizontal or vertical dimension lines.
	Angular Dimension tool	Draw angular dimension lines.
	Segment Dimension tool	Display the distance between end nodes on single or multiple segments.
	3 Point Callout tool	Draw a callout with a two-segment leading line.