Roatate and Transform Geomery functions??

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chipsahoy
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Roatate and Transform Geomery functions??

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Lets say I draw acircle and want to rotate 20 degrees and make 9 copies.. What would be the easiest way to do this .. I see Mirror object but nothing under roataion copy..

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Do you mean you want to make 9 copies that are each rotated 20 degrees from the last copy? So starting at 0 you'd have 20, 40, 60, 80 and so on? If this is the case I'd just copy and rotate each one off of the last copy. Maybe someone can think of a quicker way?
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Post by chipsahoy »

Exactly

But why all the hard work???

How about picking one circle and rotating the degree amount and a function to add # of copies..
Thanks Chips..

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Post by Tony Mac »

Hi Chips,

Great to see you on the forum and Thanks for the positive feedback.

What you are describing is Block Copy > Paste with the option to Rotate around a point.
We do have plans to improve the general drawing and design tools and this functionality
is on the enhancement list.

Tony

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Post by Rcnewcomb »

I too would like to see block copy & rotate in the next release.

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