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Arrange LEDs in circles?

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andrzej23050
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Arrange LEDs in circles?

Hello.
I'm designing an RGB LED lamp made out of 80 LEDs. For now, I laid out the LEDs like that:

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And I'm pretty happy with the amount of LEDs per each circle.

But now I want to more precisely arrange each of the circles, i.e. I want the distance between LEDs in the given circle to be roughly the same.

How can I achieve that?

I know that this is possible with the draw command, but it doesn't let me specify a range of elements, only the first element instead, that means that I would need to delete all the LEDs besides the ones that I want in particular circle, and then gradually add them when laying out the next circle. I don't really want to do that, that's why I'm asking is there any simpler solution.

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There is an older ulp that assists with component array placements that I have made some enhancements to. It allows easy placement of circular and rectangular arrays.
The options I added allow defining the direction the components point, plus additional rotation. This is especially handy when working with surface mount directional parts.
Circular array with additional rotation offsetCircular array with additional rotation offset

Best Regards,
Cameron


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