Tool for dividing a circle into slices?

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August 2, 2017
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Is there a tool on Illustrator that can EASILY divided a circle into 52 equal slices?

I have been struggling with this matter for some time now and I have a dead line coming.

Correct answer Doug A Roberts

i'm pretty sure this is what the video describes, but I can't watch it here, so just in case.

draw a path from the centre of your circle to the outside. use smart guides to align it to the centre.

use the rotate tool. with just the line selected, alt-click on the endpoint at the centre. type 360/52 into the box and tab out. this should give you 6.92 degrees:

click 'copy'. hold down ctrl+D (transform again) until you have lines going all the way round:

select both lines and circle. use pathfinder - divide.

_scott__

Legend

Uncertain why anyone needs a tutorial, or to do any math.. Illustrator has a built in tool for this sort of thing.

Grab the Polar Grid Tool (it's under the Line Tool). Hold down the Option/Alt key and click the artboard once.. enter your desired dimensions and divisions, hit OK. Done.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You may want to add some Live Paint, fill, expand and ungroup.

Doug A Roberts

Correct answer

Community Expert

i'm pretty sure this is what the video describes, but I can't watch it here, so just in case.

draw a path from the centre of your circle to the outside. use smart guides to align it to the centre.

use the rotate tool. with just the line selected, alt-click on the endpoint at the centre. type 360/52 into the box and tab out. this should give you 6.92 degrees:

click 'copy'. hold down ctrl+D (transform again) until you have lines going all the way round:

select both lines and circle. use pathfinder - divide.

schroef

Inspiring

There is however a mismatch, probably due to rounding of numbers which illustrator does.
If you also do the last one, so it should overlap the first one. In outline mode we see a mismatch.

I found this by using a different method. I tried a method using the "Pie" slicing options. I noticed this showed a mismatch end, a gap so to speak. Then tried this method and again, same mismatch and a gap