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When you first start to use CorelDRAW, it can be intimidating. You see the shape you want to create and yet there is no obvious tool for creating what you want. 

When you first start to use CorelDRAW, it can be intimidating. You see the shape you want to create and yet there is no obvious tool for creating what you want. Most users gravitate towards the Freehand tool and try to draw the shape from scratch. This will only increase the frustration.

The real key is to break down the complex shape into a series of simple shapes. Once you’ve done that, you can draw the rectangles, circles and other shapes. Those are easy. Then you use Weld to turn the simple shapes into the desired complex shape. Before long you’ll see that any shape you imagine can be easily created. After working through the samples provided in this article, you’ll have a good idea of how to break down the complex shape as we will use nothing but rectangles and circles to create our examples.

Included with this tutorial are eleven multimedia tutorials showing the projects describe on screen. So not only can you read how to do a project, you'll see and hear it being done for you. Each of these tutorials is noted by the "Watch Movie" icon!

Get this entire tutorial in a printable PDF file along with 24 minutes of multimedia movies showing each project in action! It includes ten pages of detailed information on how to create complex shapes in CorelDRAW 9-X4 using Weld, Trim, Intersect and Combine!