Newbie help...plz

Donster wrote:
>
> How do I search the archives for messages that were posted neear the first
> of the year. I am looking for a thread about equally spacing objects around
> a circle.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Don
>
> --
> "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
> believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Google
Advanced Search
alt.graphics.illustrator
Choose the time frame

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steg
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Hello Donster...

Let's say you want to distribute a coin evenly around a circle, as a
"coin" we just make a circle, in this example..

Draw a circle and give it a fill. Now draw a vertical path in the lenght
you want your finished distributed circle to be, with no stroke and no
fill. Align your path vith the circle so the path is aligned centred
vertical an aligns with the top of the circle horisontaly. Select both
ang group them. With the group selected, go to, effects, distort and
transform, transform. Lets say you want 10 "coins" distributed around
your circle. Now in the rotate field type: 360/10. And in the copies
field type: 9. (Yoy want 10 but you got one already). Now hit enter and
you are done. This is a live effect, so you can change the number of
copies in the apperance pallette, and the diameter of your circle by
extending your vertical path with the direct selection tool (white
arrow). Vhen expanding Apperance, if nessecary, the vertical path will
nicely disappear, and you got an editable circle of "coins"

Poul Solbjerg

Donster wrote:
> How do I search the archives for messages that were posted neear the first
> of the year. I am looking for a thread about equally spacing objects around
> a circle.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Don
>
> --
> "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
> believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
>
>
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Or:

1. Draw a circle, the way you want the position of your objects to be
2. Draw your object, for instance a triangle
3. Use Align and Transform to position this triangle exactly at the top
of the circle
4. Select the triangle (Set the View to "Outline", that enables you to
pin point the center of the circle), choose the Rotate Tool, Option/Alt
click on the center of the circle, that will be the point of origin for rotating
5. Fill in a number of degrees (when you need 10 objects, 36 degrees)
and hit copy
6. Hit Transform Again 8 times (Cmnd-D)

You can get rid of the circle now if you wish, essentially it was just
an aid.

steg


Poul Solbjerg wrote:
>
> Hello Donster...
>
> Let's say you want to distribute a coin evenly around a circle, as a
> "coin" we just make a circle, in this example..
>
> Draw a circle and give it a fill. Now draw a vertical path in the lenght
> you want your finished distributed circle to be, with no stroke and no
> fill. Align your path vith the circle so the path is aligned centred
> vertical an aligns with the top of the circle horisontaly. Select both
> ang group them. With the group selected, go to, effects, distort and
> transform, transform. Lets say you want 10 "coins" distributed around
> your circle. Now in the rotate field type: 360/10. And in the copies
> field type: 9. (Yoy want 10 but you got one already). Now hit enter and
> you are done. This is a live effect, so you can change the number of
> copies in the apperance pallette, and the diameter of your circle by
> extending your vertical path with the direct selection tool (white
> arrow). Vhen expanding Apperance, if nessecary, the vertical path will
> nicely disappear, and you got an editable circle of "coins"
>
> Poul Solbjerg
>
> Donster wrote:
> > How do I search the archives for messages that were posted neear the first
> > of the year. I am looking for a thread about equally spacing objects around
> > a circle.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Don
> >
> > --
> > "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
> > believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
> >
> >
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Poul and Steg, thanks for the instructions, the are both right on. I still
don't know how to search alt.graphics.illustrator. I looked at the advanced
search in google and still couldn't come up with anything. Dense I guess.

Thanks

"Donster" $gr7.5656@news01.roc.ny...
> How do I search the archives for messages that were posted neear the first
> of the year. I am looking for a thread about equally spacing objects
> around a circle.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Don
>
> --
> Jesus replied, "I assure you, unless you are born again, you can never see
> the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3 NLT)
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"Donster" <don RemoveThis @moab-utah.com> wrote in message
news:fZebd.9202$Ha.8680@news02.roc.ny...
: Poul and Steg, thanks for the instructions, the are both right on. I still
: don't know how to search alt.graphics.illustrator. I looked at the
advanced
: search in google and still couldn't come up with anything. Dense I guess.
:
: Thanks
:
: "Donster" $gr7.5656@news01.roc.ny...
: > How do I search the archives for messages that were posted neear the
first
: > of the year. I am looking for a thread about equally spacing objects
: > around a circle.
: >
: > Thanks for your help.
: >
: > Don
: >
: > --
: > Jesus replied, "I assure you, unless you are born again, you can never
see
: > the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3 NLT)

You have to be in google 'groups' which you can
find on the google.com home page.
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Aaah! That's what I was missing (groups). That clears it up...now I don't
feel so dense.

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>
> "Donster" <don.RemoveThis@moab-utah.com> wrote in message
> news:fZebd.9202$Ha.8680@news02.roc.ny...
> : Poul and Steg, thanks for the instructions, the are both right on. I
> still
> : don't know how to search alt.graphics.illustrator. I looked at the
> advanced
> : search in google and still couldn't come up with anything. Dense I
> guess.
> :
> : Thanks
> :
> : "Donster" $gr7.5656@news01.roc.ny...
> : > How do I search the archives for messages that were posted neear the
> first
> : > of the year. I am looking for a thread about equally spacing objects
> : > around a circle.
> : >
> : > Thanks for your help.
> : >
> : > Don
> : >
> : > --
> : > Jesus replied, "I assure you, unless you are born again, you can never
> see
> : > the Kingdom of God." (John 3:3 NLT)
>
> You have to be in google 'groups' which you can
> find on the google.com home page.
>
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: Newbie help...plz