Create a circle that consists of 12 rounded lines?

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2023-04-02 12:11:15

Hello 🙂

I'm very new to Pixelmator Pro and I want to create my rasterized logo as vector graphic.

Here's what I've got so far:

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But I'm having trouble to re-create the circle. It needs to consist of 12 rounded lines.

Any help is highly appreciated. 🙏
Thank you, Josua
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2023-04-02 15:00:41

The trick seems to be creating the dotted line with proper sizes and gaps. When I got the sizes right I just increased the diameter of the circle till I had 12 lines - had to eyeball the final gap. Your example was an arc, not a circle, but should work for an arc.

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2023-04-02 15:18:04

Yeah, an arc works. Divided the path, added two anchor points (subtracting two lines worth) then deleted the two endpoints. Then "grew" the arc til it had 12 lines. Interesting exercise.

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2023-04-02 15:19:30

Thank you so much! Would you mind sharing the file with me? 🙏
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2023-04-02 15:38:12

I hope this is okay with the team... https://upload-cdn.pixelmator.com/Untitled.pxd
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2023-04-02 15:55:22

Thank you so much. I want to learn Pixelmator, but I'm quite in a hurry right now. 😅
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2023-04-02 16:07:36

Hm, the file seems to be empty:

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2023-04-02 16:43:56

I downloaded it from the above link, again, easily. Where did you get "accessify-ring.pxd" it was untitled.pxd. Don't know, sorry but I also told you how I did it. And you could take the above (and below) images to duplicate it.

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2023-04-03 10:06:33

Thank you! I seemed to have a weird system-wide problem after updating Keynote: it kept on crashing! I had to completely remove it, restart the computer, and now it works again.

Here's the related discussion: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253795329

Now I can see the contents of your file! 😃

Thank you!