I’m trying to layout a series of holes to be drilled along an arc with the holes equally spaced. I have included a basic 2D example of an arc with a single (component) circle on it. I now want to copy this circle from A to B (cntrl move) then array (/ 9) to generate a total of 10 holes along the arc…

When you chose the rotate tool you then clicked on the arc. At the time you do that you’ll see there is another inference point lower down, at the bottom of a triangle where the other two ends are the ends of the arc. It’s that center point that you want to make your first rotate tool click. Then th…

Moving a circle around an arc and creating an array or circles

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DaveR February 28, 2016, 8:16pm 2

You’ve given almost the right process. So is there a question?

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Moving a circle around an arc and creating an array or circles

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