How do I arrange circles in a perfect circle around an object?

[seanlung]

How do I arrange circles like in the photo in a perfect circle. I want the circles to be much smaller like 1mmx1mm. Is there any way to do this?

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @seanlung

There will be lots of different ways of doing what you want but we need more information, for instance:

1. Do the circles already exist or can they be created from scratch?
2. How many circles are there (or will there be)?
3. Do the circles have any texture/image/gradient inside them and should/can that be rotated?
4. How large are the circles?
5. How large should the ‘inner’ circle be?
6. How should the circles be aligned to the ‘inner’ circle?

[David in Яuislip]

Look up Duplicating in the Help and find the entry for Power Duplicating. It doesn't say much and I hope that the screenshots below will help

[seanlung]

35 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Welcome to the forums @seanlung

There will be lots of different ways of doing what you want but we need more information, for instance:

1. Do the circles already exist or can they be created from scratch?
2. How many circles are there (or will there be)?
3. Do the circles have any texture/image/gradient inside them and should/can that be rotated?
4. How large are the circles?
5. How large should the ‘inner’ circle be?
6. How should the circles be aligned to the ‘inner’ circle?

thank you for the reply, David in Яuislip found a way so its all good now. thanks!

[seanlung]

16 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

Look up Duplicating in the Help and find the entry for Power Duplicating. It doesn't say much and I hope that the screenshots below will help

thank you so much! i did it really quickly.

[iconoclast]

I have a slightly alternative version to David's one (you should have a grid and the Snapping to grid activated):

1. Create a circle in the middle of the top area of your document.

2. Drag the rotation point of the "Enable Transform Origin" option to the place you want to have as the middle point of rotation.

3. Duplicate your circle (Ctrl+J)

4. Hold the Shift key and drag your circle at the rotation handle (Both, circle and rotation point have to be active). You can do it in fixed steps of 15° if you hold Shift. Drag it for example to 45°.

5. Then just repeat pressing Ctrl+J and see what happens.

[Old Bruce]

In addition to David in Ruslip's excellent tutorial what I will do when the project calls for it is select each of the circles individually after they are all made and Add themselves to themselves to reset their rotation. This is a step that is only occasionally needed.

[G13RL]

If, for example, they are not circles but stars, this will bring them all to the location of the original star. To rotate them to zero while keeping them in their original location, disable "Enable Transform Origin" before typing 0 in the "Rotation" window of the Studio's "Transform" tab.