Ovals round a circle?

[Artyboots]

Hello All,

Just wanted to say thank you so much. That was so easy. Knew it was some kind of blend, but couldn't remember why! Really appreciate your taking the time to help me, including with illustrations.

All the best.

Ali

[gwpriester]

It could also be done as a custom brush stroke. Just make a single oval the brush, then adjust the spacing as needed.

If you use a brush, then you can use the Offset setting to move the ellipses off the circle.

[Artyboots]

Good morning. Sorry for the delay in responding, but in my defence, I was fast asleep!

Thank you for this, Gary. Am going to experiment now.

Ali

[Albacore]

The method you might want to consider is using the constrain angle in the Page Options menu as it gives you a high degree of control. They are many tutorials which have used this method and here is one: http://www.xaraxone.com/tutorials/au...orial%201.html

Further on in the tutorial Gary goes into using the constrain angle in more depth and there are other tutorials using the same procedure.

[Artyboots]

Thanks, Albacore. Nice to have so many different methods available.

Happy Sunday.

Ali

[csehz]

I also thanks for the tutorials, tried to create and finally was succesful, but can I ask a short?

Why in the exported .png the petal borders are "not smooth"? On the Xara Designer screen it is beautiful smooth, but not in the exported file

[csehz]

Hm interesting, seeing now the uploaded file on the forum, it is not so bad.

Basically I opened the Xara exported .png in another program, it had black background and maybe that is why thought that the petal borders still needs some formatting.

[handrawn]

possibly the other program not so good with the anti-aliasing