Rob11

Excellent, I finally get it. Control J was the missing piece that I didn't understand, this now makes it so easy. Also the Boolean add was very useful in resetting 12 o'clock back to 0 degrees. A combination of all the replies have resolved my problem. Sure I will be back on this forum.

Hi, Thanks, the r+30 relative/absolute did the trick, I wasn't aware that existed. The 179 degrees was me creating a rushed file. I will make sure in future that 12 o'clock is 0 degrees, don't know how it became 180 degrees. Impressed by the help other members are willing to give a noob, looks like Affinity will be my tool of choice.

Hi, Triangle at 12 o'clock was selected, copied, pasted (see file1) and then 30 degrees typed in "R" and enter (file2). Cheers

Hi, Thanks for all replies. Yes this is exactly what I am trying to do. The problem seems to be that putting 30 degrees in "R" in transform moves it TO a random place on the dial (see screenshot) not BY 30 degrees (12 o'clock being 180 degrees according to Affinity). (later) I have now recreated the circle in another file and 12 o'clock is now 0 degrees (?!) With you up until the first copy is created at 30 degrees, how are you then creating all the others in 30 degree increments?. By the way, I find that shift and rotate moves the triangle in 15 degree increments (why 15 degrees?, is this a parameter I can change?), might be very useful. Just to add, could this have been caused by my flipping vertically by accident? - in that case, my bad!

Hi, Just trialling Designer for watch dial design. Failed at first hurdle. Triangle at 12 o'clock, want to copy and paste every 30 degrees (every 5 minutes) around the dial. Put the centre of rotation in the dial centre and 30 degrees in "R" in transform. This just moves the triangle to 8 o'clock. What am I doing wrong?