So here’s a ready tool to display dimensions in various shapes like this.

Parallel Dimension Tool: A lot of civil engineers and architects use Corel Draw.

You can also directly add a table with this tool in case you need to create text in a tabular form. You can edit them using the properties and formatting options displayed in the toolbar.

Text Tool: The text tool here will help create text characters and text boxes.

But Corel Draw lets you create a number of readymade shapes like a banner shape, star, spiral shape, arrows, graph paper grid under the same heading.

Polygon Tool: Basically, the polygon tool is used to create shapes with more than 4 sides.

It also helps with quick shape making using 3 points Ellipse like the one in the rectangle tool.

Ellipse Tool: This tool lets you create an elliptical shape like a circle.This only means a quick rectangle can be created by simply dragging the mouse once two nodes of a rectangle are drawn. It also has an option of 3 point rectangle. Rectangle Tool: This tool will help create the shape of a rectangle.So in case, you wish to create Calligraphic Text or Graffiti, this tool will be useful. Artistic Media Tool: This tool is like a freehand brush or spray or a pen.So this tool plays a very important role in the first stage of graphic designing. This tool has a number of drawing options that let you create and draw any design. Freehand Tool: This tool is where most of the magic happens.Zoom Tool: Let’s you zoom to any minute part of the shape or text that is being created or edited so that the designer can correct the discrepancies accordingly.

It will also let you cut the image like a knife (divide the shape into different slices that can be separately edited) and even erased (using Eraser). Crop Tool: As the name suggests, it will help trim the selected image, shape or text.So once the nodes are selected, that part of the object can be curved into different textures like a smudge, smear, twirl, etc. Shape Tool: On the selected image, shape or even text, this tool will give nodes and handles.These options let you resize the image that broadens it or narrow it or even create a mirror image with a mouse. Pick Tool: It is actually a select tool and behaves like the Move Tool in Photoshop, to the tool’s bottom right corner, you will find various options like freehand pick and free transform.

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