Designing a circular staggered pattern of objects

摘要

The invention is directed to computer-implemented method for designing a staggered pattern of objects in a computer-aided design system. The method comprises:
- providing a rotation axis that is the origin of two or more concentric circles;
- providing a reference object to be multi-instantiated;
- defining the number of objects to be instantiated from the reference object on each concentric circle;
- defining an angular shift;
- instantiating the number of objects from the reference object on each concentric circle, the instantiated objects being spaced according to an angular deviation between two consecutive instantiated objects on a given concentric circle;
- in one of every two concentric circle, shifting the instantiated objects in accordance with the angular shift.