Re: [Inkscape-user] Newbie question: concentric circles?
I think this should be simply, once you learn to draw a regular circle - which is, I believe, done by holding the CTRL key, as you drag the ellipse tool.
After drawing your circles, you can size them very exactly, using the "menu bar", or otherwise.
ghoyle1 wrote:
I'm a brand-new Inkscape user, and I was wondering what's the best method for constructing a ring of concentric circles (like a target).
Thanks,
Guy Hoyle
On 2007-July-22 , at 22:21 , stuseven wrote:
I think this should be simply, once you learn to draw a regular circle - which is, I believe, done by holding the CTRL key, as you drag the ellipse tool.
After drawing your circles, you can size them very exactly, using the "menu bar", or otherwise.
You can draw one circle (use the ellipse tool and hold CTRL as previously said) and then duplicate it (CTRL+D) and resize the duplicated one from its center (SHIFT+CTRL+drag the handles of the object) and so on for all your circles. If you want this to be precise you can use the grid. Using the menu bar to input values may be problematic because it will probably shift circles centers.
ghoyle1 wrote:
I'm a brand-new Inkscape user, and I was wondering what's the best method for constructing a ring of concentric circles (like a target).
Thanks,
Guy Hoyle
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On 7/22/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
and resize the duplicated one from its center (SHIFT+CTRL+drag the handles of the object)
Much faster and more precise is by pressing < or Alt+< the same number of times for each circle.
Or, alternatively, you can use the "Tile Clones" option, telling it not to displace the centers of the clones, but to reduce the size. That should give you a fairly controllable way of doing very precise arrangements of concentric circles (such as exponentially converging spaces between them, and the like).
Denís.
bulia byak wrote:
On 7/22/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...155...> wrote:
and resize the duplicated one from its center (SHIFT+CTRL+drag the handles of the object)
Much faster and more precise is by pressing < or Alt+< the same number of times for each circle.
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