I'm sure that this is a fairly simple solution for this, but I just can't see it. This dial has irregularly spaced tic/hash marks and I need to recreate the hash marks. They need to be in the same position as the original, other than that they need to look better than the original. All the large hash marks need to be the same width and length, ditto for the small hash marks. What I have been doing (and it isn't working) is: Drawing a circle with no fill and no stroke, using the scissors to cut at each large hash mark, creating a custom brush for "5" hash marks and another for "3" hash marks but using blends. This works fine if all the hash marks, both large and small were the same length, which they are not and that is my issue. If I draw the large hash marks, using the above method, the hash marks are drawn from the center outline of the circle, so that when I try to draw the smaller ones, the length isn't correct. Does anyone know how to get both the large and small hash marks in the position of the orginal and keep them spaced correctly on circle? although they are spaced irregularly one to another they need to be set correctly on the invisible circle. I hope I'm making sense. If I try to select them all and expand and then individually move one end of the smaller hash (to make them the smaller hash) their position around the invisible circle changes and they all begin to look cockamamie. Here is the original dial:
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