In CorelDraw X5 the Toolbox is located on the left side of the Drawing window. Toolbox contains a range of tools that you can use for performing specific drawing and editing tasks. Such as creating, filling, and modifying objects in the Drawing. Each tool in toolbox, except the Pick Tool, Text Tool and Table Tool, contains a small arrow at the lower right corner of the tool icon. When you click this arrow, a flyout appears containing a set of tools related to the respective too.
Brief Description of the various tools Available in the Toolbox:
| Name of Tool Group/Flyouts | Tool Name | Description |
| Selection Tool | Pick Tool | Allows you to select, resize, skew and rotate objects or Images in CorelDRAW document. |
| Shape Edit Tools | Shape Tool | Allows you to Edit the Shape of Objects by Manipulating their nodes and segments. |
| Smudge Brush Tool | Allows you to Change the shape of an object by dragging its Outline | |
| Roughen Brush Tool | Allows you to distort the Outline of a Vector Object by dragging its Outline | |
| Free Transform Tool | Allows you to transform an Object, by rotating, mirroring, scaling and skewing the Objects. | |
| Crop Tools | Crop Tool | Allows you to resize a Drawing by selecting the required portion from it. |
| Knife Tool | Allows you to cut an object to create two or more separate objects. | |
| Eraser Tool | Allows you to remove or Erase unwanted portion of your Drawing. | |
| Virtual Segment Delete Tool | Allows you to Delete the portions of objects that lie between intersections | |
| Zoom Tools | Zoom Tool | Allows you o change the Magnification level of the drawing Page. |
| Pan Tool | Allows you to drag THE Hidden area of a drawing into view without changing the zoom level. | |
| Curve Tools | Freehand Tool | Creates single line segments and Curves |
| 2-Point Line Tool | Creates a Straight line that begins from the starting point and terminates at the endpoint | |
| Bezier Tool | Allows you to draw curved lines by segments. | |
| Artistic Media Tool | Provides access to the Brush, Sprayer, Calligraphic and Pressure Tools | |
| Pen Tool | Draws Straight as well as curved line Segments. | |
| B-Spline Tool | Allows you to draw curved lines by setting control points that shape the curve without breaking it into segments. | |
| Polyline Tool | Allows you to draw and Connect lines and Curves in one Continuous Curve. | |
| 3-Point Curve Tool | Allows you to draw a curve by dragging from the starting point to the endpoint and then position the Center Point | |
| Smart Tools | Smart Fill Tool | Helps you to identify the enclosed area when one Object overlaps the Other one, and fill the enclosed areas. |
| Smart Drawing Tool | Allows you to Convert freehand stroke to basic shapes and smoothed curve. | |
| Rectangle Tools | Rectangle Tool | Draws a rectangle |
| 3-Point Rectangle Tool | Draws rectangle with rotation angle | |
| Ellipse Tool | Ellipse Tool | Allows you to draw an Ellipse. |
| 3-Point Ellipse | Allows you to draw an Ellipse with rotation angle. | |
| Object Tools | Polygon Tool | Allows you to Draw Symmetrical Polygons |
| Star Tool | Allows you to draw a perfect star | |
| Complex Star Tool | Allows you to draw Complex stars with interesting | |
| Graph Paper Tool | Helps you to draw a grid of lines Allows you to draw a symmetrical and logarithm Spirals | |
| Spiral Tool | Allows you to draw symmetrical and logarithm Spirals | |
| Basic Shapes tools | Basic Shapes Tool | Allows you to select from a set of shapes, including a hexagon, a smiley face and a right angle triangle. |
| Arrow Shapes Tool | Allows you to draw arrows of different shapes and directions, and add arrow heads at the starting and ending points. | |
| Flowchart Tool | Draws the symbols of the Flow charts | |
| Banner Shape Tool | Allows you to draw banners | |
| Callout Shapes Tool | Helps you to Draw callouts and labels | |
| Text Tool | Text Tool | Allows you to type the words in the form of Artistic or Paragraph text on the Drawing Page. |
| Table tools | Table Tool | Allows you to Draw and edit Table |
| Dimension Tools | Parallel Dimension Tool | Allows you to draw parallel dimension lines. Dimension lines are those lines whose dimensions can be specified on the drawing Page |
| Horizontal or Vertical Dimension Tool | Allows you to Draw horizontal or vertical lines | |
| Angular Dimension Tool | Allows you to Draw Angular Dimension lines | |
| Segment Dimension Tool | Helps you to display the distance between the nodes on single or multiple segments | |
| 3-Point Callout Tool | Allows you to draw callouts with a two-segment leading line | |
| Connector Tools | Straight-Line Connector Tool | Allows you to draw a straight line to connect two objects |
| Right Angle Connector Tool | Allows you to draw right angle to with a rounded corner to connect two objects | |
| Right-Angle Round Connector Tool | Allows you to draw a right angle with a rounded corner to connect two objects. | |
| Edit Anchor Tool | Helps you to modify the Anchor points of the Objects. This tool is helpful when you want to modify the anchor points of two lines connected to each other. | |
| Interactive Tools | Blend Tool | Blends objects by creating progression of intermediate objects and colors. |
| Contour Tool | Applies a series of concentric shapes that radiate into or out of an object | |
| Distort tool | Transforms objects by applying the push and pull, zipper or twister effects. | |
| Drop Shadow Tool | Applies Shadows behind or below objects. | |
| Envelope Tool | Allows you to change the shape of an object by dragging the nodes of an envelope around the boundary of the object. Applying an envelope or an object provides the object with additional nodes that you can use to edit the Objects. | |
| Extrude Tool | Applies 3D effects to objects to create the illusion of depth. | |
| Transparency Tool | Allows you to apply transparency to the objects | |
| Eyedropper Tools | Color Eyedropper Tool | Allows you to sample colors and apply them to the objects on the Drawing window |
| Attribute Eyedropper Tool | To Copy attributes. Such as fill, outline, size and effects, and apply them to other objects. | |
| Outline Tools | Outline Pen tool | To change the appearance of outlines by using the options available in the Dialog Box that appears on clicking this tool present in the toolbox |
| Outline Color Tool | Allows you to set the options to define the outline color of an object from the dialog box that appear on clicking this tool | |
| No Outline | Helps you to remove the outline of the shape | |
| Hairline Outline | Allows you to create a thin line similar to a human hair | |
| 0.5 pt | Allow you to create a 0.5 point thick outline | |
| 0.75 pt | Allow you to create a 0.75 point thick outline | |
| 1 pt | Allows you to create a 1 point thick outline | |
| 1.5 pt | Allow you to create a 1.5 point thick outline | |
| 2 pt | To create a 2 point thick outline | |
| 3 pt | Allow you to create a 3 point thick outline | |
| 4 pt | Allow you to create a 4 point thick outline | |
| 8 pt | Allows you to create a 8 point thick outline | |
| 10 pt | Allow you to create a 10 point thick outline | |
| Color | To set the color model and color value while filling an object or applying color to its outline from the color docker that appears on clicking this tool | |
| Fill Tools | Fill Tool | To fill objects or closed paths in different styles |
| Uniform Fill Tool | Allows you to apply a solid color to an object | |
| Fountain Fill Tool | Allow to bend two or more color to add depth to the Objects | |
| Pattern Fill Tool | Helps you to fill an object with 2-color, full color or Bitmap color | |
| Texture Fill Tool | Allows you to apply a texture on the objects to give them a more natural or realistic appearance. CorelDRAW provides a variety of preset textures and each texture has a set of Options that you can change as per your requirements | |
| Post Script Fill Tool | Applies PostScript texture fills to objects. A postscript texture fill is created by using the PostScript Language. | |
| No Fill | Applies no color to the Object. | |
| Color | To set the color model and color values while filling n object or applying color to its outline from the Color Docker that appears on the clicking this tool. | |
| Interactive Fill Tools | Interactive Fill Tool | Allows you to fill an object with uniform fills, pattern fills, texture fills and fountain fills. |
| Mesh Fill Tool | Allows you to apply a mesh grid to an object. |
