The Xara Trompe L'Oeil Room Page 3
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Continue until you have a total of 12 lines as shown here.

TIP: If you are lacking in confidence, and/or basic motor skills, and have trouble mastering the drag and drop duplicate right mouse button technique, here is an alternate method.

Click twice on the line and drag the rotation bulls eye to the center of the two guidelines.

Press Ctrl K to make a duplicate line.

Enter 30 in the Angle of Selection text entry box on the Infobar and press Enter . Repeat these two steps until you have 12 lines.

Select all the circles and from the Arrange pull down menu, select Convert Line to Shape. Select all seven circles and once again from the Arrange menu, select Combine Shapes > Add Shapes.

NOTE: There is no need to Convert to Editable Shapes as this is done automatically when yo Convert Line to Shape.

Select the blended circles shape and then the square, and from the Arrange menu, select Join. Apply a light color fill (temporary) to the new shape.

The circle shapes have been removed from the square creating a see-through mask.

Select all the lines and Convert Line to Shape (Arrange menu). This will create 12 separate line shapes.

 

NOTE: This next step seems tedious. But when I combined the lines with the circles and removed the combined shape from the square the circles became wobbly and not a pretty site to behold. After much experimentation, I came upon the following, labor intensive, workaround.

FURTHER NOTE: I just this very minute received word from Xara that "this problem has been fixed in Xara X v1.0c , which should be available soon [on the Xara.com web site]."

Meanwhile, back at the tutorial. Select one line at a time, then the gray mask and press Ctrl 2 (the shortcut for Combine Shapes > Subtract Shapes) until all 12 line shapes have been removed.

After all that work, name and save your file and take an eye break.

When you return, using the Ellipse Tool, draw a new circle, 190 pixels in diameter.

TIP: You can draw any size circle and change the dimensions, to the exact dimensions desired, by entering the precise dimensions on the Infobar.