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Rotate/duplicate around path

Mar 3, 2010 11:07 PM

Don't know if this is in CS4, or planned for 5.  I'd like to use the rotate tool to duplicate an object around an assigned path, not just around a circle.  And you should be able to control how the objects being duplicated snap towards the center axis.

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  • JETalmage-71mYin
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    1. JETalmage-71mYin,
    Mar 6, 2010 6:27 AM   in reply to osyrys808
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    Are you not familiar with Scatter Brushes or Blend>Replace Spine?

     

     

     

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    2. osyrys808,
    Mar 6, 2010 2:57 PM   in reply to JETalmage-71mYin
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    Hi.

     

    Yes, I am familiar with those, and actually I do a lot of stuff with blending and splines. But using that to replicate what I have in mind is messy and inelegant, but could be accomplished if there was a dialog box for the Rotate Tool that allowed you to select a spline/path to snap to when duplicating an object.

     
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    3. JETalmage-71mYin,
    Mar 8, 2010 5:22 AM   in reply to osyrys808
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    You need to describe more clearly exactly what you have in mind. Sounds like redundancy and confusion to me, to associate this with the Rotate Tool.

     

    JET

     
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    4. osyrys808,
    Mar 8, 2010 2:21 PM   in reply to JETalmage-71mYin
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    Let's say I wanted to make a clock face with tick marks for each second.  Normally I would do this with the rotate tool and duplicate at 60 degrees. But what if I wanted a different shape, like a rectangle, or an octagon, or even something else? Duplicating around a path, any path, as opposed to just a circle, would be be great. Not jsut for clocks, but for anything that you might want to rotate and duplicate.

     
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    5. JETalmage,
    Mar 9, 2010 6:41 PM   in reply to osyrys808
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    So far, everything you've described can be done with existing features. I don't know why you would want this associated with the Rotate Tool. Not only is it redundant; "rotating" to duplicate around a non-eliptical path is not very intuitive.

     

    The only things I would favor in this regard are a couple of long-needed (and long requested) enhancements to existing features:

     

    PathBlends should be given the option to uniformly distribute (avoiding the add anchorPoints workaround).

    Groups should be distributable along a path.

    The faceting problem of Scatter Brushes should be fixed (again avoiding the add anchorPoints workaround).

     

    These commonplace capabilities have long been available in other drawing programs.

     

    JET

     
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