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I have been experimenting with general methods of creating radially symmetric circular designs with an arbitrary number of planes of symmetry, particularly with ones that are not evenly divisible into 360°. My method is explained in detail below but the general idea is to enter fractions in the rotate field in the Transform panel to rotate elements of the design as precisely as possible. The problem is this leaves tiny gaps between the rotated objects unless I add a thin stroke to them. Experimentally, about a 0.2 to 0.3 px stroke width seems to be enough to fill the gaps, but this may vary depending on the canvas size. I assume this is due to the inability of the app to work with irrational numbers to a sufficiently high degree of precision, but I sometimes see this even with rational numbers entered as fractions, like 360/9. Is there any way to avoid this? --------- My method ----------- 1. I start by creating a vertical line with the Pen tool in Line Mode with snapping enabled so it begins at the exact center of the canvas. 2. I duplicate it with CMD-J, set the the lower right anchor point in the Transform panel, & enter (for example 360/7) in the rotate field. 3. I select both lines with the Node tool & use Join Curves & Close Curves to create a closed, pie slice shaped curve. 4. I duplicate that, & use the same method to rotate it in the Transform panel, again entering the same fraction as in step 2. 5. I then power duplicate to complete the design. Attached is an example of the result (history included), showing the gaps for a 7 way symmetric design. EDIT: I know about using various multisided shapes as templates for this sort of work but my question is about precision in angular text entry fields. radial symetry issue.afdesign