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:
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Radius. The radius of the circle defining the points.
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Starting angle. The angle in the working frame’s XY plane, from the X axis, at which to lay out the first point.
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Number of points on circle. The number of points to create on the circle.
There are two methods for laying out points on the circle:
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Evenly space points around entire circle. The points will be constructed evenly around the entire circle.
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Space points by. You can specify the angle between points. If (based on the specified spacing and the number of points) more than 360° of the circle is specified, the points will continue to be laid out around 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.