Shape Distribution Tool
A tool you can use with selected objects, that would distribute those objects, in layer order, around the outline of the designated shape, most likely a circle/oval, square/rectangle, triangle, star, or custom shape.
This would be a great layout assistant for placing, scaling, and rotating different kinds of objects at once. A time-saving and more accurate way to create many types of layouts.
With this tool, you could:
- distribute different types of objects (shapes, text, symbols, etc) around a shape
- scale the shape and objects independently
- auto orient rotation to the center or the line segment in the shape
- perhaps even move the objects along the shape path
Charles Marshall
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This looks a lot like Live Symbol Path from Cvalley FILTERiT plugi-ins pack: https://www.cvalley.com/products/filterit5-2/
It allows a single symbol, as far as I can see from the description...Then, another paid plugin would be Symbol Stipple from AstuteGraphics: https://astutegraphics.com/plugins/stipplism
It allows to use several symbols (if used as variants)But yeah, I'd rather much have a built-in way to do something like this.
There is a request to extend the functionality of scatter brushes, to include more elements at once: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/37324495-allow-multiple-elements-in-a-scatter-pattern-brus
But your idea feels much more broad and universal. Voted
