How on earth would i do this

davesec

hi!

i'm not really sure how to go about doing this, aside from doing it manually..

i've attached a picture of a little squiggly line with some circles on it

is there a way to make like 60 of these squiggly lines going off in all directions, and with random squiggles, and (this would be nice but is not needed) with the sizes and locations of the circles all random as well??

basically i want to attach a bunch of these to a circle so it looks like a bunch of messed-up spokes in a wheel.

doing this manually won't take super long, but i'm wondering if there's a more efficient way of doing this. or like a script or something?

thanks!
dave

EarthMover

create a center hub (circle) with 60 segments
Use the "point at center" script to put a construction point at the center of the circle
Turn you squiggle line thingy into a component
Attach it to one of the end points in the circle
Use the rotate tool to rotate a copy of the squiggle line thingy to the next end point in the circle, using your center point as a pivot
Create a rotated array by typing x59 then enter
Choose multiple random copies in the array and right click to choose "make unique"
Edit the different "unique" bunches of components to add your variation.

Conversely, you could start with 4 unique and varied components and attach them to the circle, rotating them to every 4th (alternating) segment of your circle. You would get variation but lose the randomness.

davesec

thank you!

can't wait to give this a shot tonight!