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Mark Matyjakowski
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I have to recreate some art for a piece of medical equipment we are printing.

I have an 8.5" circle, I have to put a dot every degree around the circle (larger dots every 5 degrees)

I know how I could do it the tedious way and know some cheats that don't quite work but might.

Just wondering if anyone had a trick to do it that I haven't thought of.

I work in Corel and Composer
Thanks

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in sign lab
type in 360 dots and fit to a circle path
using custom arc and character compression on.
Don't know if that works in corel or not.
Bill

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Mark..in COrel

Create the 8.5 circle.

Create another two circles the size of the small and the large dots.

Align all three to the top and centers vertically.

Select all three objects and duplicate and flip vertically.

delete the resulting two 8.5 circles.

Select the two larger "dots", duplicate and rotate 5 degrees. Keep duplicating and they will continue rotating the same 5 degrees till you have all of them.

Select the two smaller "dots", duplicate and rotate one degree. Repeat the duplications until you have all 360 of em.

Delete the small "dots" that are now where the larger 5 degree dots are.

Takes less time to do than to type the explanation. [Big Grin] [Big Grin]

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Mark,
That is EASY in composer. Make a horizontal guideline and a vertical guideline for the center of the circle. Then click and drag out a circle on the Vertical guideline at the distance you need it from the center point. The circle should be centered over the vertical guideline. Select it and copy it to the clipboard. Then go to "absolute rotate" and enter 1 degree and okay. With "snap to guideline" turned on, it will prompt you to click the mouse where you want to center the rotation from. Click the center crosshairs and it will rotate the circle over 1 degree. The Edit, Paste Back. Now select both circles and copy again. This time, put in 2 degrees and rotate over the center point as before. Next time do all four circles and put in 4 degrees. You can continue that until you have the circle of dots. When all 360 are done, select the ones 5 degrees apart and outline them, hiding the originals. DONE.

You can "cheat" if you want, by making a large group of the circles and copying them to the clipboard, then FLIPPING them over the horizontal guideline. Paste back the originals.You can also copy and flip over the horizontal guideline. Paste back the originals.

I could have done the whole thing in the time it took me to type this!

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[Off Topic]

Mark try Double "00" Buckshot


Someone had to say it Buddy.

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mark
vinyl master pro has a circles array
I created the job..if you want it
dont know about dot size
sure hope ya dont have to weed this!!!!!!!!!

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Appy,

That's cool!

Just thinking..
You could use that same procedure to create 90 degrees of the circle. Then make 3 duplicates, rotate them -90, 180, and 90 degrees and align them to center.

Now my brain hurts.... [Eek!]
Rapid

[ March 22, 2004, 07:20 PM: Message edited by: Ray Rheaume ]

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Mark Matyjakowski
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if you had an infinite number of rednecks
in an infinite number of pick-ups
shooting up an infinite number of road signs with buck shot
eventually
you would have all the literary works of the world in braille

Thanks guys .. it's been a long Monday

Mike, no weeding, hit print key, burn screen ... eventually

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in illustrator (& probably Corel) you could find the keycaps command for typing a bullet, then using the text on path command you could copy & paste your 360 bullets in there, adjusting point size & kerning until you get them all to fit how you want. Then using outline, &/or stroke width, you could size everything up to the correct diameters.

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hmm, I started typing my reply before you had any answers, but the way the phones been ringing today... well, looks like you got plenty of better ways to do this in software you already use [Eek!]

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Hi!
The best and easiest method is from Dave.

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I have worked with Corel since ver.2. If you double click on your first dot, circle (or group of them if they are concentric), then drag the center of rotation to the center of the 8.5" circle in which you want them around ( use snap to guidelines to make it easy), then you can "rotate duplicate" every 1 or 5 degrees (or however many you need)to go all the way around.
Paul M.

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Hi Mark,

The easiest way for me to accomplish this is in AutoCAD. It took about five minutes, I exported it and imported it into Composer and saved it as a plt file.

E-mail me and I'll send it right over.
Vicki

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