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Illustrator Cutting a circle


mikelamar

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Hi guys, I tried to cut a circle to 8 same size pieces. I made the circle and created a vertical and an horizontal line above it. Copy-paste in front and rotate the two new lines 45 degrees.
I selected them all and divided them via pathfinder tool.

After this action when I zoomed in I saw that there was a very very tiny (half a pixel) free space between the circle pieces which became more when I scaled the divided circle bigger and it's also not aligned.
Theoretically all the 8 pieces should be at the same point in the center, but after divided them, many have moved one pixel up/down, left/right.

Don't know why this happens and how to avoid it.
I'll post a photo later cause I'm not in front of my PC at the moment.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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If you are just trying to divide the circle, use the polar grid tool to make your circle, set it to 0 concentric and 8 radial dividers. If you want to cut it into 8 pieces there are many methods.
 

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