Greetings again,

Is there a way to have Inkscape draw a mark at the center of circles - a cross or a dot or dot with cross would all be fine. To be clear, I mean an actual object in the drawing. I can to this by hand but I have to do it for like 20-something circles and if at all possible would rather not.

[The reason for this is stupid and has to do with a newly discovered break in our toolchain do to a new fab (CNC and printing) place we are using.]

20 objects is that not that many... I would use snapping to object centers and just duplicate a centermark for each circle.

If I had to do 200 circles, then I might consider developing an automated way to do it.

Draw one circle, and add a center mark to it. Then duplicate that one 19 times.

Cloning seems to be the way to go, that way if you decide to change the center indicator all will update at the same time.
I think Tyler and I agree on what is 'a lot' of objects, in that the amount of work to individually do it for 20 circles might actually be the same or less than the amount of work to set it up to be done automatically...

I presumed the OP already has circles in the design (maybe of various sizes) and needs centermarks on those existing circles to set drilling operations in a CAM program.

If new circles are needed... yes, cloning.

Hi.

This might be an easy extension to write. Anyone up for the challenge?
If not I might give it a try.