Creating Clock Faces in Corel Draw - Method #2 -

Hi , I'm Vicky .

I'm with Condi and I'm gonna make a clock face .

This is the clock face we're gonna make and I'm gonna show you exactly how to do that .

Um In this Carell draw application , this would work in any version of Carell .

The tools are the same .

We're gonna start off with making our first circle and using the eight inch disk here at Condi .

Um We're gonna go by that template .

So I'm gonna zoom in on my document .

I'm gonna grab my circle , hold my control key down and drag across the page were dis locked .

I can just type eight press enter and I have eight for horizontal and vertical .

These lines , um These lines here we're gonna get rid of because I'm gonna show you how to create those .

Um We're gonna create another circle .

So I'm gonna press control D to duplicate the eight inch circle only .

This circle is gonna be a little smaller seven point 75 press enter .

And the great thing about Krill is it finds a center for you if you move , if you just move this around .

So we've got the center there .

I'm gonna create my cross hairs by clicking in the scale and dragging the lines to the center .

That's gonna help me later with my numbers .

So I'm gonna go ahead and create that now .

And what we want to do now is press the square tool and hold the control key down and make a tiny square .

Come over here , left click in the black to fill it zoom in using my mouse key and placing this square inside or in between the two lines .

OK ?

And that's about center .

So we're good .

And now I'm ready to duplicate that .

These , these are my hour hands .

OK ?

Not actually my hands but where my hour hands or my numbers will go .

So I need this .

These are my markers for my hour .

So I'm gonna to duplicate that and then press control D I'm gonna place it over the top of my first square .

And what I wanna do now is create uh center from our , from our radius .

So I'm gonna click one more time there .

That's gonna give me this rotation ability and I'm gonna grab , I'm gonna zoom out .

So you can see I'm gonna put my cross hairs over the very center there .

And just so you can see that says center and we're gonna drag that to the center of the clock face that creates the center of my radius .

OK ?

And I'm gonna go 30 degrees to the left on my angle of rotation .

And once I type my 30 up here .

I can press enter and that creates the , the uh 30 degrees to the left and to duplicate that .

I'm gonna press control .

D go all the way around .

So I have 12 of them .

Now , what I wanna do is go over here to my text tool and I'm gonna create a , I'm just gonna type A L just to create my first line and I'm gonna drag it .

I'm sorry , I'm gonna drag it here , but I'm gonna get closer so I can see .

OK .

And now I want to size it um so that it fits perfectly between these two lines here .

So again , I need to duplicate it because we're gonna repeat what we did with the square this time creating , we're only gonna create more of these lines for the , the minute hand .

So I'm gonna do control D I'm gonna zoom out so I can see it and I'm gonna place it right over the top of the first one just like I did with the square .

Now , I'm ready , I'm gonna zoom out so that we can see .

I'm gonna click one time on the center that gives me these rotation errors .

And now I am ready to , well , first , I want to , I'm sorry , first , I want to drag this down to the center of my clock face .

So get your cross hairs over the center and now we've created the center point for the lines and we're ready to uh type in our six degrees here because I know that's gonna be six if I divide that by 60 .

So we're gonna make 60 lines all the way around the clock .

Um , so I'm ready to press enter and that creates my first one and now I'm gonna to duplicate it .

I'm gonna go all the way around the clock face zoom out so you can see what's going on a little better and we're gonna go all the way around till we get back up to the top again .

Ok .

So now we have our , our hour blocks here and then we have our minutes .

So what I wanna do to kind of uh fine tune .

This is what I can do is I can come back and delete these lines just over the uh the squares because I don't really need them .

If you want to be precise , you can leave them or delete them .

I like to delete them .

You just click on them and delete them using my wheel on my mouse to zoom in and out .

So , uh if you're wondering how I'm zooming in and out , that's how I'm doing it .

And finally this one .

OK .

Now I'm ready to uh fit to page so I can see what's going on .

All right .

So now I'm ready to uh incorporate my numbers here .

I've already typed up the numbers to save us some time .

You can use any type of font you want .

I chose these .

But uh , now that I have them already typed , all I have to do using these cross hairs is I'm gonna first , um , place these , I'm gonna get a little closer here and I'm just gonna kind of place them in here .

So I have them all .

So I have them all , um , where I can zoom in and we can tweak it or fine tune it once I have everything closer together .

So give me just a second .

We'll get all these down here and then we can start perf perfecting it .

Should we say shame .

And just so we know exactly where these go , we'll just get a little closer and we'll start placing these whoops .

And when you mess up , the great thing about undoing something is control Z or you can use your undo key here .

OK ?

And I kind of place it a little bit away from this line here .

Oops , we did it again .

Control Z zoom out and zoom back in whoops .

Control Z and zoom out .

Zoom back in .

Oops .

Control Z .

Control Z is a great hot key .

It's an undo .

So if you mess something up , control Z is the answer .

And then finally 11 and there we have it and we have created a clock face .

And again , if you want to use this as a template here , what I would do at this point um is I would probably delete these lines because we don't need them anymore and then hold my left mouse button and drag this area because we need to group it .

And once we've gotten everything by dragging across left click and then group that way if you click something , the whole thing moves to see how that works .

And control Zia , move me back to the center .

OK ?

And now you can use this as a template for your clock faces .

This is an eight inch disk .

However , this would work with a 12 inch uh five inch um however big uh clock face or small that you want to make it , it would work if you uh angle or rotate your lines and squares as you should .

Again , my name is Vicky .

I hope this has helped and if you have any questions , feel free to call me .

Condi is 1 808 266332 and I'm Vicky and my extension is 3 20 again , as always .

Thank you for your time .