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Beginners' Questions how to creaet a circle and subvidide it into equal sections.
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    ILikeArt ILikeArt @ILikeArt

    I want to create abooking good. Attached is an image of what I created as an example. As you can see the pie slices are not the same length, as you can see I filled in the missing slice with a yellow slice.

    Example
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    Paddy_CAD Paddy_CAD @Paddy_CAD
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    Paddy_CAD Paddy_CAD @Paddy_CAD

    Step 2 might not be clear. The keyboard shortcut for clockwise rotation is "]" and the default rotation step is 15 degrees, so three keystrokes rotates 45 degrees.

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    ILikeArt ILikeArt @ILikeArt

    Thanks Paddy, looks good!

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    David248 David248 @David248
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    Another way, without any calculation : let's say you want to divide your circle into 17 (it will work with wathever number) equal pieces. 

    • Enable snapping to guides, Nodes > Cusp Nodes and optionnaly Page Borders
    • Drag from rulers two guides (with snapping to Page Borders, you can place them to match the center of page).
    • Draw (hold ctrl key) a circle centered on guides intersection. Type in End field "360/17" and press enter, inkscape does the math for you.
    • Open Path Effects Menu, choose Rotate copies.
    • Modify Number of copies to 17.
    • Press F2 to switch to node tool and drag LPE’s handle to intersection of guides.
    • You're done / do path > object to path to cook LPE

    If you want separate objects, you can tick Split elements option in LPE's panel before path > object to path. If you forgot to do it, you can do path > break apart for the same result. 

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    COD COD @COD
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    David - 
    Another trick that doesn't use guides but you have to enable cusp node snapping. There is a snapping bug in the LPEs (  https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/5776 ) . To work around that, duplicate the first "wedge" you created. Then you can properly align all the copies correctly to the wedge apex. Delete the wedge copy when finished.
     

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    David248 David248 @David248

    Thanks, COD for this tip. Faster than using guides. It's frustrating to see the wedge apex snapping without LPE and no more snapping with a Rotate LPE

    Tiling LPE is also a nightmare in terms of handles / snapping : the handles lies midway of the gap... I would love to have something more easier. 

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    COD COD @COD

    Lol - that drove me freaking nuts one day. The control handle would snap to everything on that page I was working but not what I wanted it to snap to. That is why I filed that report. 
    Maybe that trick would work on Tiling LPE as well? 

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    ILikeArt ILikeArt @ILikeArt

    Cool stuff. Thanks all !

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