Align an object around the inside of a circle

[diverdaveman]

I'm creating a drawing for a instrument guage. What I have is a cirle (the actual size of the guage) and a line with tick marks and numbers at every 5th tick mark. I need to be able to bend this line (with the tick marks and numbers) on the inside of the circle, kind of like "Fit text to Path". I have combined the line, the ticks and the numbers already. Now they just need bending and merged to the circle.

I'm using Corel Draw 10.

Thanks

 

[Brushman]

This is a method but I'm not sure if any good to you. Create your circle actual size of guage.
Add horizontal and vertical guides to centre of disc.
Add vertical line the size of your tick, the top of which is in the inside of the circle at the 12 oclock position.
Double ckick this tick and move the rotation centre to the centre of the gauge.(where the guides cross)
Using the transform docker click rotation tab and select the rotation angle.
Click the apply to duplicate to add ticks at required intervals.
Not the 1 click soloution you were after but with a little fiddling may provide what you're after.
Alan

 

[impulselondon]

For mathemtaically-defined intervals (ie: one tick every x degrees around a circle), I draw the first one inside the circle (having created guides in Corel 11...Corel 12 allows you to snap to quadrants and edges insanely easily). Then having used my handy-dandy calculator to figure out where the next tick would be, I place it next to the first. Then without doing anything further, CTRL-D will place another duplicate with the same spacing along the inside of circle. You can potentially hold down the dupliacte function and watch it draw ticks all the way around the inside of the circle.

If this is too tedious yet or not precise enough, the above post was very good - create the four ticks at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock. Group those four objects and rotate them on increment (by it one degree or ten), then continue to duplicate once that one is placed.

Remember - to automatically duplicate rotational increments, you have to press CTRL-D after adjusting the first object, without touching anything else first.