do you know the "smart fill tool"?

[Víctor Paredes]

i have download the coreldraw x3 trial (or version 13), and i thought, well, corel puts on the sales new versions every year and always they all are equal to the previous versions (and it's true).

but this time it have a very useful tool that i always dreamed.
it's named smart fill tool.
for example, you draw four independet lines, without any point in common


then click the center with smart fill, and automatically it made you a new shape


sorry if i sound too much as a you must purchase corel guy, its just that i always thought that would be moho the first with this tool, and not corel or freehand or whichever.

what do you think?

[myles]

Hi Selgin,

Xara X (and later Xara X1 and Xara Xtreme) have been able to do this for some time (a couple of years at least), although it takes about 3 simple steps instead of a one-click tool.

RealDRAW Pro has been able to do something similar with scanned hand-drawn art for about the same time.

The trouble with all these is that adjoining edges and outlines are not linked in any way, so when it came to animation it would be like trying to animate a whole lot of separate little pieces of cloth instead of one patchwork quilt, if you see what I mean.

Moho's new paint-bucket tool (a new tool in the recent 5.4 update) does something very similar, but results in an animatable mesh instead of separate objects. I think this is a better solution for animation.

Regards, Myles.

[Víctor Paredes]

hi myles

The trouble with all these is that adjoining edges and outlines are not linked in any way, so when it came to animation it would be like trying to animate a whole lot of separate little pieces of cloth instead of one patchwork quilt, if you see what I mean.

thanks, i should have thought that there is a lot of softwares with similar tools.
sorry, but i can't understand the whole idea (because my bad english, i suppose). for drawing this would be very useful, when already have used it, just erase the other lines and points.

i can't understand yet for what i could use the paint bucket, actually, i never use it.