help making cribbage board lanes for laser engraver

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July 27, 2019
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I am trying to make cribbage board lanes to be laser engraved on a piece of wood. I made one in sketchup but sketchup doesn't make true arcs so that it won't work. I'm comfortable with photoshop and sketchup but clueless in illustrator. In sketchup I was able to turn an object that was repeated frequently into a "component". I could then edit the component once and all instances of it in my layout would be updated to reflect the changes. SmartObjects in photoshop could be used in a similar manner. Is there away to do this in illustrator. I can't find any reference to smart objects in the menus. Thanks.

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Jacob Bugge

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Trevor,

How about the suggestions by myself and Myra here?

help making cribbage board lanes for laser engraver

Eric Dumas

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There are a couple of ways.

I suggest you look into brushes on path. The idea is that you draw the path (guideline) for the holes to follow. The path can remain invisible. Instead of a colour on the path, a brush (the circular hole) is repeated along the path, you just need to set the spacing between repeats.

also looking symbols How to work with symbols in Illustrator

In the screenshots below, there is a path, a black circle. I drag-dropped the circle in the brush panel. OK to have it as scatter brush and set the scattering options.

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