How to create uniform hole patterns

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Working out an alternate solution for this using free software at:

Creating an array of circles programmatically

The task of creating an array of holes was recently asked after: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/how-to-create-uniform-hole-patterns/30774 The rather prosaic solution of drawing a column of circles, duping it, rotating the duplicate as needed, and then duping the column and aligning each duplicate as desired was met w/ the observation that it was more steps than were expected: https://community.carbide3d.com/t/how-to-create-uniform-hole-patterns/30774/4 Here is a way to do this programmati…