The "DOT" trick

[Howard Kaufman]

I found a nice way to make placing my dots easier. (If you recall my recent 
posts).

First I create the dot by setting the grid to .01 in.  (Actually this is 
smaller than what the program allows, so it defaults then to something like 
.0277).  This is necessary to get the circle small enough.
Then I draw another larger circle around the dot so that the dot is exactly 
at the center of the larger circle.  I then made the line of the larger 
circle invisible (no line), and groupd the line and the dot.  I saved that 
new shape to a palette.

Now it's easy to select the tiny dot since there is an invisible and larger 
circle around it.  It makes it easer to move around the page too.  Before 
this, the dot was fine but it was very hard to select, center, and move 
around, since it was so tiny.  Centering is easier since the larger circle 
is what is snapped to the grid and that is sized so the dot ends up exactly 
at the intersection of the grid lines.  Also, with the larger invisible 
circle I can easily drag the size of the dot to make it slightly larger, if 
needed.

Thanks again to all who helped me with this issue.

Time to register!

Regards,
Howard Kaufman
Lectrosonics
(516) 785-6211