I am making circle templates divided into equal pie shaped sections, to be used as templates in my production shop. It works very well when I make eight pie shapes in equal size.
Problem: When I divide the circle into ten equally sized pieces – I can not separate them individually from the circle form.
I use:
Please help – I’m going nuts here.
Stig.
Hi Stig
Stig Lundberg said:But, I can not drag the individual pie pieces from the circle – the way I can with the eight piece form.
It seems you are talking about the one like the image I have attached. Let me know if I have done it right so that I can explain how to do it.
Anand
Yes Anand.
You are right indeed. The problem i have is that i am new at this - loaded the program only ten days ago. I am eager to learn how you did it. Many thanks
Thanks to all of You guys. I am now able to handle it, almost without a flaw.
However, now I have a different problem.
It is making a star. I made one and it turned out the way I wanted it. Problem is, I can’t remember how on earth I did it!!!
I and our daughter have tried all day and it get worse. I will make a copy of the one I made and come back soon under another topic.
Watch for the “perfect star”!
There are three easy ways to make a "perfect star" and several more involved and tricky ways:
On each, holding <ctrl> will make sure it's a perfect shape. (and <shift> will draw from the center) The number of points can be changed before you draw it or after. Even once you have played with the shape of the star. (You can node-edit one "point" and the star will make all the points the same)
More tricky ways are similar to the methods described above with the pie segments; create a shape for a point on the star, then make lots of them and put them together to form the shape you want. Much easier to use one of the built-in tools.
I'm trying to make seperated pies.
I can do the non seperated ones but don't know how to seperate them.
Any help much appreciated!
Many Thanks
Chris.
Mr ChriZ said:I can do the non seperated ones but don't know how to seperate them.
Hi Chris,
Watch this video if it can help you a little.
Thanks,
That's not what I'm really looking for, I know how to split off chunks, although that method looks better than how I'd do it. However I'm looking to move all of the segments a certain distance from the center so everything remains symetrical, as per the image in the op's post.
Mr ChriZ said:as per the image in the op's post.
Sorry can't help because I can't find this Op.
Mr ChriZ said: ...However I'm looking to move all of the segments a certain distance from the center so everything remains symetrical, as per the image in the op's post.
...However I'm looking to move all of the segments a certain distance from the center so everything remains symetrical, as per the image in the op's post.
What you're looking for is a radial distributor?? There are a couple of methods you could use to do this.
Method 1: If you want to control the width of the spacing. Draw a long vertical rectangle the desired width, duplicate and rotate 45° (use the Transformation docker). Use Snap to Object to move the wedges. Delete spacers.
Method 2: If you want to move the objects out from a center point. Draw a small circle with the Ellipse tool, convert to curves. Snap the point of the wedge to the top node of the circle and then move the center of rotation to the center of the circle. Duplicate and rotate 45°. Delete circle.
On the side...Isocalc.com (a.k.a. Nick Wilkinson) used to have a little freebie program for version 9 called RadIt! that would do this automatically. You just typed in how many in the array you wanted, distance from center, etc. and it would do it for you. Love it! I'm sure it could be done with a macro, but it would take someone besides me to do it.
Patti