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Splitting an object into a grid

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Splitting an object into a grid

There may be times inside of Illustrator where you'll want to take a certain area of your document and split it up evenly into pieces. Well there is a great feature inside of Illustrator called Split Into Grid that can do this for you. For example, I may be working on a piece of artwork in just one part of my document. So what I'll do is I'll take my Rectangle tool and I'll draw a rectangle over the area that I want to calculate a different specific segments for. With that rectangle selected I'll now go to the Object menu, I'll choose Path, and then I'll choose Split Into Grid. I click on the Preview button so I could see what's happening here and I'll increase the number of columns, maybe to something like 4. Notice I can also control the gutter or the space between these columns. But I can even set that setting to 0. So now I get four distinct areas that are all evenly spaced. Perhaps my favorite part of the feature is this button here called Add Guides. Note it doesn't actually add…

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