Rotate question

[V Silly]

Hello again, I have a circle and I need to divide it up into eight equal pie shaped pieces. I drew a centerline, I copied and pasted the centerline and then rotated it by 45° in the transform palette. What I would like to be able to do is then repeat that action multiple times to create a line that has moved 45° from the previous line to complete the shape. However in the transform palette I do not see a way to move a shape 45° from the second shape. Seems to want me to enter in a degree value for the new line for its position in the circle rather than just being able to move the last line by another 45°. I guess this will work but means I have to do some math. LOL was hoping it would be easier.

[firstdefence]

You can use ⌘+J or Ctrl+J on Win to power duplicate.

1. Create the centre line
2. Press ⌘+J or Ctrl+J
3. Rotate the duplicated centre line by the specified degrees
4. Press ⌘+J or Ctrl+J repeatedly and you should now get duplicated centrelines that rotate by the degree's you specified in step 3.

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/duplicate.html

[Alfred]

6 hours ago, V Silly said:

I have a circle and I need to divide it up into eight equal pie shaped pieces.

If you really need pie-shaped pieces, rather than just a circle divided up with radial lines, use the Pie Tool instead of the Ellipse Tool.

[HVDB Photography]

I'm not a Designer, but the way I would do this in Affinity Photo is as follows ...

 

[dutchshader]

17 minutes ago, HVDB Photography said:

I'm not a Designer, but the way I would do this in Affinity Photo is as follows ...

 

 

why not use the pie shape for this?

 

[HVDB Photography]

15 minutes ago, dutchshader said:

35 minutes ago, HVDB Photography said:

 

why not use the pie shape for this?

Perfect en een stuk sneller. Nooit te oud om bij te leren.

 Bedankt.

[v_kyr]

Well there are several ways to do this with shapes. If you want to have a 8 separated pieces look of that try a gear with 8 teeth, gapsize 64% ... etc.

[HVDB Photography]

17 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Well there are several ways to do this with shapes. If you want to have a 8 separated pieces look of that try a gear with 8 teeth, gapsize 64% ... etc.

OK thanks. As I said, I am not a designer, so I never had a closer look at. But perhaps it comes in handy when designing photo books.

[v_kyr]

3 minutes ago, HVDB Photography said:

OK thanks. As I said, I am not a designer, so I never had a closer look at.

I'm also NO designer, but a deeper tool inspection and play with discovered some of it's capabilities.

[R C-R]

37 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Well there are several ways to do this with shapes. If you want to have a 8 separated pieces look ...

And if you want to actually have 8 pieces, you can add a divide step after making the 8 tooth cog:

[v_kyr]

25 minutes ago, R C-R said:

And if you want to actually have 8 pieces, you can add a divide step after making the 8 tooth cog:

Yes, that was meant as a homework to find out afterwards!

[R C-R]

47 minutes ago, v_kyr said:

Yes, that was meant as a homework to find out afterwards!

Or, as many of my math textbooks put it, "this is left as an exercise for the reader."

[V Silly]

Thanks everyone for all the answers. What I'm after is lines radiating around a centerpoint. The answer from firstdefense is most aligned with what I am looking for however I am not finding that the command J is working as expected. The first command J works as expected but the second command J puts the new line in unexpected locations and seems to put them in a different place every time I try.

I keep re-selecting the centerpoint symbol in the toolbar and the centerpoint in the transform panel but it still does not rotate the line from the centerpoint. Not sure why. Thanks everybody for your input.

 

[V Silly]

OK this time I got it to work but I'm not sure why. The difference being that I added a guide horizontally and vertically through the center of the page. Now command J places the new rotated line where it is supposed to go. Is it necessary to create guides in the center of the page in order to get the centerpoint of the page to be recognized by the command?

[Guest]

Hello V Silly,

Draw your line, select it and display its center of rotation by clicking on the target-shaped button in the context bar. Bring the rotation center to the bottom of the line (in my example) where all the lines should meet. Duplicate the line (Ctrl/Cmd + J) and type 360/8 in the "Rotate" window of the "Tranform" tab of the studio. I put 8 but you can enter the desired number of lines.
Then repeat "Ctrl/Cmd + J" as many times as necessary to get all the lines.

[R C-R]

4 minutes ago, V Silly said:

Is it necessary to create guides in the center of the page in order to get the centerpoint of the page to be recognized by the command?

Guides are not necessary, although they can make it a bit easier to snap objects to the center of the canvas.

The only thing necessary for power duplicate to work is not to deselect the first duplicate after you rotate it. Just press CMD+J for Macs or CTRL+J for Windows repeatedly to create as many duplicates as you need.

[V Silly]

Thanks to reglico, that is a great solution. I think I've got it now, really appreciate the input. :-)

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, V Silly said:

Thanks to reglico, that is a great solution. I think I've got it now, really appreciate the input. :-)

Thanks for your feedback!