How to space around a round object

[Kholzschuh1 (Karl)]

I’m doing a design with circles around an oval and wondering how to I space them evenly in carbide create? As always thanks for the assistance.

[fenrus (Arjan van de Ven)]

if I were to have this challenge, I would do the spacing with squares
and later put circles in the squares

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

As @fenrus noted the best way to do this is to draw in additional geometry and use the align tool

[nlichtenberg (Nils Lichtenberg)]

Hi Karl,

maybe this can help you:

1. Draw a circle and line. The line crosses the circle’s center and its end points are located where you want to put the outer circles later:

   

2. Copy the line and rotate it multiple times:

   

3. Scale everything to the desired oval shape. The line endings now point to (almost) evenly spaced locations around the oval and you can center the surrounding circles at each end point:

   

[Kholzschuh1 (Karl)]

Great idea. I was playing around with similar idea last night. Thanks

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

Another solution would be to use a drawing program which allows spacing objects around a perimeter or a programmatic stroke.

[CrookedWoodTex (Tex (Don't Mess With My Texas!))]

@WillAdams

program which allows spacing objects around a perimeter

Such as Vectric Vcarve (Desktop, Pro) …