Segmented circles..

[pauland]

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]

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

[pauland]

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

Paul

[pauland]

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]

I think I must have done convert twice.

Convert to Editable Shape THEN Convert LINE to Shape.

Glad it worked!

[JimR]

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

[dogbertbh]

Try using the X / Y Axis to move your piece by specific units

[pauland]

What would make me really happy is being able to shift all the segments radially outwards from the centre of the circle - "exploding" the segments if you like - so that there is a gap between each segment and it's neighbour on all sides.

Paul

[dogbertbh]

Another thing to try is to contour the pie piece with a specific number of pixels with ONE step contour. Move the piece until both sides are touching and then you're even.

Then remove the contour.

[dogbertbh]

Thinking maybe something with the BLEND tool for that.

Gary is well versed in most things blend

I'll try it out.