Re: [artworks] Scaling a circle to grid lock
- From: Anthony Hilton <ajh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:00:14 +0100
In message <ebe2af2051.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <51209d9e8briscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> In message Richard Ashbery
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Is there away of locking a circle to the grid when drag-scaling?
>>> Try using the elipse tool and setting the radius as you want.
>>> I used this method to get a set of 10 concentric rings:
>>> Create first circle
>>> Clone it and modify the radius of the clone to the next size
>> Do you mean switch to Scale tool and drag on any corner handle to
>> resize the clone - I would agree that this works but to make the gap
>> between each concentric circle to be say exactly 1mm is next to
>> impossible without lock-to-grid.
> I think what Anthony meant was changing the numeric radius values.
> Create the first circle whichever way you want, then clone it and in
> the ellipse tool add 1mm to both radius values, e.g., if the major and
> minor radius values are 30mm, then change them to 31mm. That way you
> get exact results without needing the Scale tool at all.
Yes, Martin describes more clearly what I meant.
Anthony
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