Join Lines to Make Shape Corel Draw

Wow! I looked at your drawing and I;'m not sure how you managed it, but you ended up painting yourself into the proverbial corner.   Every "line" or "curve" in your number 2 (except for the bottom left of the beginning stroke of your 2) are closed curves consisting of multiple nodes!  Once I moved some of the nodes, those curves were actually filled with black.  That, along with the curve on the top left part of the beginning stroke of the 2 are also control curves instead of plain curves. I"m not even sure what they are controlling, but that is why these cannot be combined with other curves.  But if  you were to select any other part of your 2, you could combine those cirves. But they will just end up with another type of a mess.  I think you'll be better off redrawing your artwork after learning some basics.  I would use guidelines and snap to guidelines to assist in drawing the artwork.

Here are the basics:  In Corel, everything is drawn as curves. Well, you can also insert bitmaps, but that is something different.  But all the other items like lines, circles/ellipses, rectangles and polygons are curves. Even text is curves. The items I just mentioned (except simple lines) also have special properties, but they all can be converted to (plain) curves. They also have to be converted to curves before they can be combined with other curves.  If a curve is closed, (when the area its outline surrounds has some area inside) it can be filled wit a color, pattern, gradient fill, etc. If the curve is open (does not create a totally contiguous border around the area) then the fill will not show up (even though you assigned fill to the curve).

So you better understand how to draw and manipulate curves, start by drawing 2 lines. Do do this in some blank area of your "number2" drawing, and  use the standard (not wireframe) view. Make one line close to vertical, and the other close to horizontal direction, and they shouldn't touch each other.  Line is the simplest form of a curve.  If you click on a line to select it, the description in the status bar should show "Curve" and "Number of nodes:2"  Now click on some of the "lines" in your number 2 artwork . The status bar will show them as curves but with more than 2 nodes. That is a good clue that there is something odd.  A line should only have 2 nodes.

Now going back to the 2 lines you just created: select them both (either by dragging a selection box around them or by shift and left-click).  Do Arrange -> Combine. Now the status bar will still show a curve, but now with 4 nodes. That is correct: you now have a single curve consisting of 2 separate segments (or subpaths). Now select the shape tool and click on either of the lines (if not already selected). This allows you to manipulate the nodes of that curve and the curve itself.  The status bar will also indicate that you have curve with 4 nodes on 2 subpaths. Hover the cursor over any of the nodes and you'll see it change to a cross with arrows. That cursor allows you to move the nodes around.

Drag a node of one of the lines (at this point still separate segments of the curve) towards a node on the other line. Once you get close enough to the other node, the cursor changes shape to an arrow pointing diagonally to the left and down.  That indicates that if you release the mouse key at that point, the nodes will merge.  Do that. The status bar will now show a curve with only 3 nodes and no subpaths (single path).  That is because you connected the ends of those separate lines, making it into a curve consisting of 2 connected lines.  Change back to select tool and assign some fill color to that curve.  Nothing will happen because the curve does does not encompass any area or have a closed perimeter.

Now, using the freehand tool draw a curve. Start the curve close to one open end node of the curve with 2 lines you just created, and the other end near the other end of the 2-line curve. Now select both, the "curved" curve you just drew, and the 2-line curve we worked with earlier.  Arrange -> combine. Now the status bar will show a curve with the number of nodes equal whatever number of nodes the curve you just drew has, plus 3 for the 2-line curve it was combined with.

Now change to the shape tool (and select the combined curve if it isn't already selected) and the status bar will again show that now there are 2 subpaths.  You can obviously also see that with your eyes.  As we did before, drag the end nodes of the 2-line curve to the end nodes of the other curved curve you just drew. The nodes will combine.  Once the last 2 nodes combine, closing the curve, the fill you assigned to the curve earlier will suddenly appear. That means you did things right.

Now select one of the nodes (any one) with the shape tool, and then select "break apart". Even though the node is now split into 2 overlapping nodes, the curve is no longer closed so the fill is gone.  To reconnect them into a single node again, drag one of the overlapping nodes away from the other node then bring it back on top of the other node and release it when the cursor shows diagnonal arrow pointing down and to the left.  Or drag a rectangle around the overlapping nodes (see if the status bar shows 2 nodes selected) then choose "join 2 nodes". Once the curve is again closed, the fill will show up.

This just scratches the surface but  I hope that it gives you an idea how closed curves work. Also remember that when you select what you think is a line but it has more than 2 nodes, it is not a line.  If you redraw your artwork, if you use lines which are  just a type of a curve, and "curved" curves for the corners, you should be able to combine them using the above method. Then the fill will show up inside your 2.

Peteski

Join Lines to Make Shape Corel Draw

Source: https://community.coreldraw.com/talk/coreldraw_x3_and_older/f/older-versions-of-coreldraw/41832/how-to-turn-line-curves-to-a-solid-fillable-object

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