Segmented circles..

**pauland** · 13 November 2009, 02:19 PM

OK, I know this subject has been discussed before, but it continues to be a pain for me whenever I revisit it. Yes, I have seen the tutorials for making pie charts. Slicing the circle to form segments is fine, it's dividing them into the circular bands in one foul swoop that is a pain for me - I can never get the circular bands to divide the segments in one go. The bright minds here will tell me how to do this in a very few steps.

I have coloured in a couple of segments - want every segment to be a seperate shape afterwards. Bit like a colour wheel

Paul

**dogbertbh** · 13 November 2009, 02:56 PM

Here's how I do it. Maybe someone has a faster method.

**pauland** · 13 November 2009, 03:40 PM

Thanks - that looks perfect - I'll give it a go.

Paul

**pauland** · 13 November 2009, 04:00 PM

That has worked nicely, though I had to add one step between "convert lines to shapes" and "break apart" - I had to "add shapes" first.

Thanks very much - a great way to do it.

Paul

**dogbertbh** · 13 November 2009, 04:05 PM

I think I must have done convert twice.

Convert to Editable Shape THEN Convert LINE to Shape.

Glad it worked!

**JimR** · 19 November 2009, 07:00 PM

I'm playing around with this too at the moment and I think I have got it!

Now I want to take a slice and move outwards and I wonder if there's a way of moving objects a specified distance along a chosen angle?

JimR

**pauland** · 30 November 2009, 12:38 AM

Now that the segmented circles problem has been solved, what if i wanted to round the corners of my segments?

When I approached making the original segments, I had a few ideas, but now I can't think of an easy way to round those corners. The easiest thing I can think to do would be to alter the segments for one spindle, then duplicate to form the whole circle.

Any bright ideas?

**dogbertbh** · 30 November 2009, 01:40 PM

Paul,

Can you draw one segment the way you want it so I can understand what you mean?

**pauland** · 30 November 2009, 02:20 PM

See attached - very rough example!

One day Xara will let me select my red circle and round all the sharp corners.

For what I need it's no big deal, but you Xara boffins often have a simple answer. My answer would be to round by hand all the segemnt in one spoke, then duplicate & rotate.

Paul

**dogbertbh** · 30 November 2009, 08:05 PM

I almost gave up on this one.

Then it hit me. the LINES!!!

By expanding your line size when you make the circle and star in the beginning, you get more space.

Then after you break the shaped and have your segments, you can simply add a 2pix line and use a round join from the line gallery.

I do love a challenge