Defining the Goal of the Garden Path

The goal of this tutorial is to develop a new macro named Gardenpath that draws a garden path and fills the path with circular concrete tiles.

Overview

The macro prompts the user for the following information:

1. Start point and endpoint to specify the centerline of the garden path.
2. Half width of the garden path.
3. Radius of the circular tiles and the spacing between the tiles.

Note: The half width of the path is being used rather than the full width because it is easier to visualize the half width from the centerline of the path.

Prompting Sequence

After the new macro has been defined and is executed, it will present the user with the following prompt sequence:

Specify start point of path:

Specify endpoint of path:

Specify half width of path:

Specify radius of tiles:

Specify spacing between tiles: