It is often useful—particularly when laying out nominal bolt hole pat- terns—to lay out points on a circle. A circular point layout can be con- structed in the XY plane of the working frame.

The Layout Points on Circle dialog is shown here, laying out 16 evenly-spaced points on a circle.

A number of options are available when laying out points, which are discussed below:

There are two methods for laying out points on the circle:

You can also control the naming of the resulting points using the Group and First Point fields, and whether a center point is created with the Create center point option.