Creating Spirographs with Microsoft Acrylic

Here's how you can make a spirograph in Microsoft Acrylic:

1. Create a new document in Acrylic and draw any shape. For this tutorial, we selected the Ellipse tool (keyboard shortcut R) and drew a longish oval as you can see in Figure 1, below. Remember that the R shortcut key toggles between the ellipse and rectangle tools.
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   Figure 1
2. Make sure that the oval has no fill attributes. This can be checked in the Paint Style palette as shown in Figure 2, below.
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   Figure 2
3. Make sure your oval is selected, and then click on the Rotate tool (or activate it with the keyboard shortcut Shift + R) from the toolbar. Now, click outside the oval area to set an anchor point as you can see in Figure 3.
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   Figure 3
4. Once this anchor point has been determined, go to the Transformation palette (see Figure 4) and set the rotation angle. We set the rotation angle to 5 degrees and clicked on the Duplicate button to create the graphic that you can see in Figure 5, below.
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   Figure 4
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   Figure 5
5. Keep clicking the Duplicate button on the Transformation palette to add more overlapping copies to complete your spirograph. Figure 6 shows the completed spirograph.
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   Figure 6
6. Save your spirograph to a file.

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