Snapping to a path.... in Illustrator

I was curious how to snap an object to a path in Illustrator. Basically I am thinking of a logo where I want to have a ring of circles. But to make the circles uniform it would be nice to snap them to a circle path. Any way to do this?

Post a jpg link of a quick Photoshop sketch of what you want to do, maybe with arrows a text notation in the image. Sounds easy, but I wanna be sure I'd be describing exactly what you want to do.

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See the logo on the upper left corner.... I was working towards something like that. I was thinking there would be 2 easy methods. a, if a circle stroke exits then that would be best, b. or make some circles and snap then to a path so they would line up (rather than meticulously zoom in and align them accordingly.)

I have Illustrator 9 and couldnt find a circle stroke option. So I opted for plan b.....

I'm lazy today...


I suggest checking THIS THREAD for all the ideas you'll need.

Once you get all your circles sized, spaced and arranged, select and group (Command/CTRL-G) them all, then choose your Free Transform Tool (E) and crank out the perspective of the lot of them. Grab a corner anchor, start moving it and THEN, WHILE CONTINUING TO HOLD THE MOUSE BUTTON, add the Command/CTRL, and-or Option/ALT and or Shift keys, alone or in combination, to see how they skew the group of objects.

If your experimentation strands you in no-man's land, ask again. If you figure it out, show your results.

Thanks Utopian! I will check it out and tell you if it worked....

To be honest, I spend as much time using Illustrator as Photoshop, if not more.

Play with it regularly and you'll find out how indespensible it is.

I really like Illustrator as well. I am probably more like 30 - 70 with using it compared to PS. Coming from a bitmap angle its got a different learning curve which I am still working on =).... But lately I have been using it more.