Repeat Any Shape Around a Circle in Illustrator

[@MindIslandDesign]

If you would like a step by step guide on this video, check out this article here! mindislanddesign.com/how-to-repeat-object-around-a-circle-in-illustrator/

[@Flecha57]

Watching in 2024! Just what I needed. No mumbo jumbo or annoying background music. To the point, done. Thanks so much man!

[@cortezzarate3151]

Thanks bro! Clear and easy steps. Thank you for helping the community. Sometimes, I need a refresher in AI

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@felixrauhut578]

That was precisely what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

[@MindIslandDesign]

Glad it helped!

[@sleepydeer983]

Ctrl+D is not applying the last effect, cant duplicate the shapes anyone encountered the same issue as me ?

[@fashionworld6552]

Click copy not ok

[@DESIGNNEED2.0]

first make copy of shape with ALT then you can use CTRL + D to make copies repitedly

[@frankranager8749]

Appreciate this! Saved me a good chunk of change!

[@mannysanchez1395]

When i have the rotate tool selected the angle screen doesnt pop up when i click

[@Nok1a]

press alt

[@rodolfodavid188]

Help! I cant snap the selection of my point of rotation to be the center of the circle. Any idea on how to solve this?

[@fraserwebster8761]

Wonderfully explained. Thanks mate.

[@cardermedia]

Great job, many thanks!

[@connyc23]

This is the best tutorial on the subject. thanks.

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@livedogdeadlion9347]

your tutorial is PERFECT!!

[@MindIslandDesign]

Glad you liked it!!

[@Galionare]

Your channel too underated, so useful!

[@MindIslandDesign]

Thank you!

[@divakarsingh]

Thanks a lot . You have a new subscriber. keep on doing the great job. if you can please demonstrate the Astute Graphics Plugins also.

[@WTerrell]

Yep, that is a immediate SUBSCRIBE. Thank you!!!

[@genshinxiaoling1710]

Thank you so much! This helped a lot!

[@jorgebalbin3554]

It was what I needed. Thanks!

[@MindIslandDesign]

Glad it helped!

[@busyman7571]

thanks for being precise subscribed thanks

[@bobmartin2513]

When I hit enter the center goes back to shape... :(

[@sug725]

thank you!

[@TexasDraped]

this doesn't work because in the new version of PS, you dont get to see the anchor points. however i have figured it out!!! insert or make your shape or whatever you want revolving, then with that selected, hit edit>transform>rotate. Then mouse the mouse in the general center of your object, then hold ALT, then click and drag the mouse down the some imaginary center point of the revolution. Now it is ready to be rotated in the desired way. but you first will need to know how many you want in your circle. if you do 12, then you will be rotating it over to 30 degrees. the degree will pop up and show right where your mouse is when you drag for rotation. but before you get into that click on the layer that holds the object, hit CNTRL+C, then hit CNTRL+V ELEVEN TIMES. you will now have 12 objects sitting on top of eachother. Now follow me, make the anchor point as described above, by going to EDIT>transform>rotate, holding alt, you drag the center point of your object to the imagary anchor point below, then deselect the first object layer in your layers view box on the lower right of your screen, with the rotate feature and the new anchor point active(might have to redo the anchor point after the deselect), (MAKE SURE ALL 11 LAYERS ARE SELECTED), rotate/revolve the 11 other objects all at once by left clicking somewhere just below the objects and dragging some bit. you dont have to move it at all actually, because at the top of your screen where the features are located for the selected tool, you will see a geometric angle icon with some numbers to the right. type in 30.00 for the angle, and your 11 objects will move to that point. Now fasten your seatbelts, over at the layer view box on the right, deselect the bottom most layer that is selected by holding CNTROL and clicking on that bottom layer that is selected. Now you will only have 10 layers selected! Go to EDIT> transform>AGAIN. it will be the very first option to the right of transform. Now all of those 10 layers moved another 30 degrees! The shortcut for transform>again is: CNTRL+SHIFT+T. So with that in mind, keep deselecting the bottom most layer that is selected then hitting CNTRL+SHIFT+T and it will move the remaining 9 objects all together. Do this until you have done this repetitive step until you move the last layer selected. It will rotate the object respectively in relation to its position with the anchor point so you may need to click on each object individually to rotate it back to straight. you'll see what i mean when you're there. I hope this helps someone.

[@BabyBoy-hw4ir]

thanksssss a lot

[@NieR6991]

Awesome thank you!

[@ronnocdog99]

This is the perfect solution for you if Radial Repeat isn't doing what you need

[@qvdohaus7531]

idk why, when i use the rotate tool and put in the middle of the circle no window shows up like yours

[@taz4177]

Same

[@introduirenomici8994]

did you find why? i have the same issue

[@erinborja8874]

Press the alt/option key when hitting "R" and the box pops up

[@flavoredbelle]

Hold the alt/option key while clicking on the center and you shall have your box

[@51075BIGRIGG]

Did you ever find the solution because I having the same issue

[@joemora1163]

how can i manually modifiy the spacing between stars after this process ?

[@erasmuslippert]

You can't... that's what sucks about this software

[@lennard4454]

this purple center does not appear. but I do have that black point of my center circle

[@LeNguyen-im8dm]

I just downloaded the 7 day trail the adobe illustrator. It doesn't allow me to use ellipses tool. It is invisible.

[@MindIslandDesign]

Maybe you can make a square and round the corners to make a circle?

[@LeNguyen-im8dm]

@@MindIslandDesign thank you for reply. I uploaded the circle with many stars from google and I traced it. I haven’t done circle with square shape. I am new with illustrator. The trial doesn’t allow to use star shape either. Bad.

[@alexzuma2024.]

the alt key breaks the cursor into two cursors

[@rizkydharma8373]

lifesaver bro!

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@alexzuma2024.]

ctrl + d to repeat the transformation

[@S4MCRD]

THANK YOU

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@iputuarthawirawan5355]

Thank u

[@kandasamyrajan]

Thanks.

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@ag3me]

control+D never seemed to work for me

[@icarosum]

thank YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@Rocket2Terrell]

how do you rotate objects around a box.

[@Kavya-ic2tq]

thanks

[@MindIslandDesign]

Happy to help!

[@suzanne1797]

Thank you for this video! This is great. Do you know a way to do this if there are several different objects that aren't all the same? I'm trying to set up a chart that has 12 sections like a pie. And each section will have text names and objects on 4 rows. Everything needs to be distributed evenly on a 360˚ circular axis around the chart and between the four rows. So far, I'm only finding videos on how to distribute one object patterned around another. Would love any insights you might have. Thanks again.

[@suzanne1797]

Oh and I'm not sure if I made it clear in the way I wrote that, but a lot of the objects and names are different from each other, and some are the same.

[@sofiabravotohon9961]

i love you

[@jethronh]

theres a more precise way of doing this. This is archaic.

[@edycradio]

It’s a 2year old video man

[@nightbird6427]

Hello and welcome everybody, my name is Markiplier

[@eugenslavik4230]

Adobe is in the stone age

[@JoaoPereira-wc9nj]

Ctrl D