Grid lines that follows shape

[pigsfoot]

Hi,
I have a shape that acts as a temnplate to go around a cup and therefore is its a odd shape, see below



Forget the circile in the middle, what i need to do is create a grid of lines that are around 20cm apart both Horizontally and vertically that follows the outline shape so they can be used to line up text / objects via warp tool. So towards the horizontal lines they will start off slightly curved near the top / bottom and get flatter toward the centre and for the sides start off angled and get verticle toward the centre. Hopefully that makes sense.

Is there a way to do this or does it all have to be worked out manually?

Thansk in advance

 

[Rich54]

• Start with your template shape.
• On a new layer, create a rectangular grid with as many internal gridlines as you wish. Size and position it like this:

• Now go to Edit>Transform>Warp. In the customize drop-down box, select Arc.

• Adjust the Arc bend angle to fit your template. 17% works pretty good.
• Use Edit>Transform>Scale for any final tweaks.

 

[pigsfoot]

Perfect, thanks for such a detailed explanation. Thats cracked it for me.