Tutorial

There are a lot of different ways to make symmetrical shapes in Xara, including exceptionally complex, intricate gears, like you’d find in a clock or in a logo for a machining company. This month, Gary takes you on not one, but three methods for making any from flowers to gears. And if that’s not enough (the correct answer is ‘not enough!’), you also get some tip-top recommendations for coloring a gear, plus how to extrude the shape, and even hints at animating gears. Right here, elegant gears, with your Host Geary Bouton.

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