I am making a lathe tool holder. The bottom ‘shelf’ will be 19" long x 2" wide x 1" thick. I want to put 1" circles down 3/4" deep. I have spent the last two hours attempting to get the dozen circles equally spaced (it would have helped if I had paid closer attention in High School math class). In this day and age of computers, one would think that equally spacing these circles would be simple. It has proved to be anything but. I attempted to use the “Equal Spacing” app in Easel, but that just screwed everything up that it erased over an hour’s worth of work. I watched the old (2022) video on using the spacing tools, and those tools do about everything EXCEPT “equally” space the circles.
Is there a tool that will actually space the circles equally apart from one another?
I own a mechanical spacing tool, Forstner bits, and a drill press. I could have had this project finished hours ago, but thought that I should design it in Easel to help me learn the software. It is amazing just how UN-user friendly this software is.
I admit that I am a beginner. I admit that I am NOT a computer person. I admit that there is a learning curve. But this is starting to get to me. There are no classes that a person can take. NOTHING is obvious. And it appears that every task requires either using an app, outside software, or making duplicate copies of projects - MANY duplicate copies - so that each and every cut can be done because the software is not capable of accepting a complete design and carving/cutting it.
spacing these circles seems to be no exception - but I’m hopeful that there is a tool in here somewhere that one of you can point me to that will actually equally space them.
I’d think that this would be a simple matter of entering the spacing of the first and last circle (they have to be inset from the sides a bit more than the internal spacing), and then the software equally space all of the circles between those two set points.
Does this exist???
