razorpig Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 I'm trying to create a series of evenly spaced concentric shapes using power duplicate. I used CTRL + J then increased the overall dimension by adding +70px in the Transform panel ( see transform.jpg ). Using power duplicate after this ( CTRL+ J ) I thought all the subsequent shapes would be 70px apart, but the gap increases exponentially ( see result.jpg ). How can I get the power duplicate function to just add 70px each time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 The ‘power duplicate’ feature doesn’t currently offer an option to give you an arithmetic progression instead of a geometric one, so you have to resort to a workaround: razorpig 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorpig Posted May 17, 2020 Author Share Posted May 17, 2020 @Alfred Thanks Alfred - really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Very disappointing though - this is way too much effort for something that should be pretty simple. I'll just type +70px in the Transform box each time, unless there's a keyboard shortcut to repeat all those steps ( * add a thick stroke to the circle; * menu "Layer → Expand Stroke"; * menu "Layer →Geometry → Separate Curves"; * select the inner circle; * ) ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gear maker Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 FYI I actually use something slightly different. If I need to have 10 circles that are 70px apart in diameter, use cmd J to duplicate the circle 9 times at the existing size. I then make sure the center is selected and the aspect ratio is locked. Save "+70px*" to the clipboard. Click on the lowest circle's layer. Press opt cmd } to go to the next circle's layer Click twice on either the X or Y dimension Press cmd V to paste the +70px* to the base circle size Press 2 and Enter increment this number with each circle Repeat So far that's the easiest way I have found to do it. Aammppaa 1 Quote iMac (27-inch, Late 2009) with macOS Sierra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Another approach is to activate the (baseline-)grid with the desired distance and then repeat: copy/paste + drag-scale: scale copies with grid.m4v Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latergator Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Re: Evenly-spaced concentric circles using a grid and subdivisions This isn't scientifically accurate, but it may be useful where artistic rather than absolute microscopic accuracy is adequate. I used a grid and drew the initial circle so the top, bottom and extreme sides cover the respective subdivision borders of the grid; copy/paste, expand the concentric copy to the next square of subdivisions, etc. I've tried other methods (e.g., building progressively larger circles on adjacent layers of the Layers panel, but that "grew old" pretty quickly). So this will work for what little concentric circle work I do. Of course saving your best construction for future use would avoid having to "re-invent the wheel" each time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 This is an old thread but the new Spiral Tool can now be used to create concentric circles A search of the forum will show you how Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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