Circles On Paper

YoungBlood · 9 Mar 2007 at 14:53

Something so simple in essence is proving to be a right pain for me to do.

Can someone reccomend a website that can generate or some software that can create for me the following.

I need to print off an A4 size piece of paper which on it has circles of a diameter of 2.8MM and the circles are 3MM apart in both width and length. So basicly graph paper but with circles not squares.

Idealy I need something that I can input the circle diameter, which will vary from 2.8MM through to 6MM and then vary the distance apart, but the lenght and width will always be an equal number.

Simple but beyond my means, so any help somebody could provide here would be great.

darreny · 9 Mar 2007 at 16:45

i can do it for you, will have to have a border though or rather unprintable area and will be in a word document if thats ok

YoungBlood · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:10

I have downloaded the CorelDraw trial and have been using that. Doing circles inside a grid at the distances required then copy/paste untill it fill's the page. It's a little time consuming but only has to be done once on each required size, as it is required then just photo copied.

I'll keep doing it this way unless anyone can sugest better.
I thankyou for your offer, but as there is going to be so many variations in circle diameter and distance apart, it is a lot more than a one off size that I shall need. I was hoping for something I could input diameter of circle x/y distance apart and it would fill a page for me.
I know im lazy

lozza · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:43

Have a look in corel for the Step & repeat (not sure if thats the exact name in corel) then all you need to do is draw your circle at the size required, go to the step repeat put in how many you require on the X & Y axis and how much gap you need between them

YoungBlood · 9 Mar 2007 at 18:08

Harib0 said:
Have a look in corel for the Step & repeat (not sure if thats the exact name in corel) then all you need to do is draw your circle at the size required, go to the step repeat put in how many you require on the X & Y axis and how much gap you need between them

Excellent, it can be done in seconds with that, thanks a lot

daz · 9 Mar 2007 at 18:21

I would have used something like C/Java and the DISLIN library.