Hello,
I was wondering if there is a way to draw a figure and use a tool to duplicate it and fill the outside perimeter of an arc or circle with the duplicates?

to illustrate my point lets say I want to draw a simple flower and thus I make the circle and the petal design of my choice how do I make the petals and distribute them around the circle without having to manually create and rotate each individual petal?

What I want to do is similar to the Radial option on programs like Autocad etc.

tlaloc wrote:I was wondering if there is a way to draw a figure and use a tool to duplicate it and fill the outside perimeter of an arc or circle with the duplicates?

Yes there is. The feature is called Tiling. You can read about it here - http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Tiles.html

It's fairly flexible so you might have to play a bit with the variables to get the exact effect your are after.

Cool,
Thank you very much for your help, that is exactly what I was looking for. I am going to play around with it right now.