1. it works perfectly fine but for sure it rotates around the pivot and is not able to read your mind. so before any duplication set your pivot accordingly as oglu already said. 2. duplicate with transform aka shift+d as kodde mentioned works as well. place your first object and pivot > shift+d> enter 72 i.e. in the rotate…
That is exactly what I was doing, 360/5 which gives 72 and entering that into one of the rotation fields in the duplicate special options. I tried all three rotation fields and the results were far from what I wanted, in all cases, the geometry which is suppose to duplicate around the cylinder, duplicated,not around the…