I need to recreate this dial and I've learned how to create evenly spaced tick marks within a circle, but this is an ellipse. Here, I attempted to draw two ellipse then used the scissors to cut them to size. Then I used the line tool and drew each of the tick marks. Then I adjusted the weights of each tick. This is not a good method because the end ticks are not meeting the ends of the ellipse perfectly, leaving a tiny bit of tick mark outside the ellipse. There must be a better way to do this. Here is what I ended up with:
But this is what I need to create:
(I only need to create the arched part with tick marks of this dial)
Any help is appreciated, but please note that I am familiar with only the very basics of illustrator, I simply don't do this type of work often enough to completely understand the software.
Thanks!!!!
1 Correct answer
Jber,
If you wish to have the tick marks follow an ellipse and at the same time have constant widths (two different widths), you may:
0) Lock the image of the dial;
1) Create the thickest tick mark and move a copy to the right, then create a one step blend;
2) Create the thinnest tick mark and move a copy to the right, then create a five steps blend;
3) Create the two ellipses corresponding to the two arcs, then create a one step blend and Object>Blend>Expand to get a midway ellipse;
4) With the midwa
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