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Abstract CorelDRAW has particular uses in architectural design, interior design and landscape design. By comparing several software, it was found that CorelDRAW had the working plan drawing of AutoCAD, mapping of 3DMAX, and better typesetting than Photoshop had, thus it plays an irreplaceable role in drawing working plan of environmental art design, especially colored plane and elevation view drawings.
Keywords CorelDRAW, AutoCAD, 3DMAX, Photoshop, Colored plane graph, Mapping
CorelDRAW is known as the "prepress system software" among most art designers. The so-called "prepress system" is the system for plane design and production such as typesetting, output, and print. In Baidu Encyclopedia, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is defined as a plane design software of Canada Corel Company, it is a vector graph drawing software that provides designers multiple functions such as vector animation, page design, website establishment, bitmap edition, and webpage animation1'1. This powerful vector graph drawing software has also particular uses in architectural design, interior design and landscape design, and plays an irreplaceable role in making working plan of environmental art design, especially colored plane graph and elevation view. Advantages of this software include: two-dimensional drawing of AutoCAD, mapping of 3DMAX, typesetting of Photoshop, and powerful output function (Fig.l).
1 With working plan drawing function of AutoCAD
AutoCAD is an auto computer aided design software developed by Autodesk Company, applicable for two-dimensional drawing and basic three-dimensional design, and it has already become a popular drawing tool of architectural design, interior design and landscape design worldwide for its wide applicability in civil engineering design, decoration, industrial drawing, engineering drawing, electronic industry, garment processing and so on*2'. Just like AutoCAD, CorelDRAW can also be used to draw working plans such as planar layout, top layout, elevation view, sectional drawing, node drawing, detailed drawing, and hydropower drawing (Fig.2).
1.1 Basic drawing function
CorelDRAW has necessary basic functions of drawing software, and with scale, guides, grid and coordinate system, it is able to snap to grid, guides, object and dynamic vectoring. It creates basic graphics such as straight lines, circles, ellipses, polygons, and also handpainted lines, Bessel lines, three-point curves, interactive connections (Interactive connection tool uses one line to connect the objects, it is suitable for creating flow chart. By connecting particular points on the objects, and dragging...