Step 2
In this section I am going to make the vectors for the diamonds. I will make the first stone at 2.0mm then offset that stone larger by .15mm. I offset the stone because we need a tolerance for stone size variations and to make sure they do not touch each other when setting the finished ring. It also serves as a guide to align adjacent stones. I then select both circles by holding down the shift key and clicking each one till highlighted and then copy and paste a second set of circles. Using the left arrow key and the zoom button I then align the outside circles to each other. By selecting both sets of these now aligned circles and hitting the F9 key I will accurately center the pair. I do this because we have an even number of stones and therefore there is no stone centered in the ring.
I then continue to create each stone one at a time, offset the .15mm and align them up until all required stones are completed. I will only do half the ring because I will mirror the rest of the design later.
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