# Illustrator Experts Please Help?

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**Category:** design\
**Created:** [July 10, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-experts-please-help/57078 "2004-07-10T00:39:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![orionstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/51bf81/32.png) [@orionstar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/orionstar)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-experts-please-help/57078/1 "2004-07-10T00:39:49Z")

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Racking my brain. I know there is either a function in AI or a plugin that may do this.

I made a “petal” of a flower and I want to be able to repeat it so that it becomes a full circle or flower. Sure I can just do it manually if the flower has 8 petals, but what if I wanted 100? Or perhaps make a second row around it automatically?

Is there a way?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-experts-please-help/57078/2 "2004-07-10T01:11:13Z")

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It’s always tricky duplicating more than 1 transform at a time, so:  
Get the rotate tool, and drag the petal’s center point to the corner (center of the flower). Hold option (apple keyboard for duplicate), then drag a little to rotate it.  
Then hit Comand-D, Comand-D, Comand-D, etc, to keep duplicating both the petal AND it’s related rotation.

It’s pretty tricky the first zillion times.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-experts-please-help/57078/3 "2004-07-10T01:28:28Z")

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lol @ jimhere

jimhere is on the spot, you could also make a sprite and apply that sprite to a curve, but thats sometimes to much playing around to get right.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-experts-please-help/57078/4 "2004-07-10T01:41:47Z")

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Got THE answer from a bud!!  
Makes it way easy!!!

> figure out how many petals you want and divide 360 by that number  
> choose the rotate tool and Alt-click where you want the center of the flower  
> enter the number you got when you divided, and check off “copy” (enter)  
> keep hitting Ctrl-D (to duplicate) for the number of petals you wanted

He meant click on COPY, not check off.

Hope that helps others too. 🙂

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**Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-experts-please-help/57078/5 "2004-07-10T02:00:28Z")

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Control-D, Command-D, it’s all good.