Thank you-really appreciate your comment and glad this has helped you!

Hey SL-that's really lovely of you to say-thank you! If you're a Lynda.com subscriber you could check out my Infographics with Illustrator course (bit.ly/2mboozC) for more charting goodness! Keep watching and spread the word! :)

Thank you very much-it's always nice to know when your work is appreciated! Keep watching! :)

Glad it helped! :)

Thank you so much-it's always great to receive feedback like this that validates my efforts. Much appreciated!

You're most welcome and really happy that you found it useful. :)

Hey! You're very welcome and thank you very much for your kind words-much appreciated! Did you check out the recent video showing how to make these manually, but easily using the Dynamic Shapes plugin from Astute Graphics? It may be worth taking a look. :)

Hey-you're welcome-glad it helped.

Glad you liked it-and thanks for taking the time to let me know, it's appreciated!

Hey Haneen-you're welcome! Glad it helped. Please be sure to subscribe, and spread the word!

Thank you!

Ah, as you can probably tell, it's not my first rodeo, and it's just a people thing. If it made you laugh, then you've made my day and thanks for letting me know. :)

You're welcome-glad you appreciated and keep watching :)

You're welcome, Oli! :)

Glad you liked it, and thanks for commenting. In answer to your question, in some cases you could use the Direct Selection Tool when working with Graphs/Charts, but it is best practise to use the Group Selection Tool, as it can do quite a few things with groups (like charts/graphs/grids) that the other cannot. My recommendation is that you develop a mindset/routine that says to you "when I'm working with graphs or charts, use the Group selection Tool"; trust me-it'll pay off-but of course it is entirely up to you. :)

You're most welcome!

Thank you my brother! And such good company I keep! :)

You also got a new sub :D

Hey Eleonora. Thank you! In regards to your question, the grid tools usually create multi-level groups-use the ungroup command twice and you should be fine-let me know if that doesn't solve your problem.

Hey, Zed-thank you! This is actually a commonly asked question, so no worries-you have to use the Scale tool. Select the items and tap "S" on tyour keyboard, followed by RETURN/ENTER; the Scale dialog will appear-change the uniform values to scale up or down from there. Hope that helps, and thanks for watching and commenting! :)

Wow thx you're awesome !

Thanks

Hey-thank you! Happy that it helped. :)

Hey Kobe-thanks for the kind words and sorry that you're having problems with this. One of the most common errors with this is that you haven't completely ungrouped the polar grid successfully-check the video again at around 7:27-as I think that may be where the problem lays for you. Other than that, check that you have one of the rings and the chart you want to mask are bothe selected. If you're still struggling after checking those things, come on back. :)

Yep-use the group selection tool or the Layers Panel to target the graph you're after. :)

@@TheDesignNinja Are you able to do this once the graph is 100% complete? I have a very complex radial bar graph so I have decided to alternate colours for ease of viewing. Trying to change the colours of a single bar/graph however it is changing the colour of the whole ring/circle and not just what is remaining after using the clipping mask. I am using the layers panel to target just the graph but I am having no luck.

Hey. Sorry, just to clarify, do you mean when you modify the data associated with the largest masked pie? :)

Hi Laura! That's just a quirk of Illustrator, and it does that sometimes. You should always be able to edit the colour, though! Use the layers panel to get to the graph you want to change. Sometimes also applying a graphic style prevents the colour changing if the data is modified, so try that also.

@@TheDesignNinja Thank you so much for your reply, that is great to hear, I think I was having one of those why isn't it working moments lol. After looking at it with fresh eyes I realised all I needed to do was click no fill on that section again. Thank you again for creating such an easy to follow tutorial !!!

You're welcome and glad you're up-and-running again!

Hey-you're welcome and happy that I was able to help. Regrettably, this file isn't available for distribution, sorry!

Firstly, sorry it's taken me a few days to reply, for some reason I wasn't notified of your comment! You need to use the Scale Tool. Select the Graph, then tap S on your keyboard-that enables the Scale Tool. You then have two choices, hold down the SHIFT key and click/drag to change the scale, or hit RETURN to use the dialog. :)

Thank you! Much appreciated.

Well, that's more of a math question than an Illustrator question, but simply put if you want to find the percent of 86 out of 200, you'd first divide 86 by 200 [result: 0.43] then move the decimal point two places to the right [result: 43] and that's your percentage. Hope that helps. :)

Welcome

With the native tools it isn't, but you can check this video for alternative methods that show alternative methods and how to do your own calculations for percentages: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5h7fLBks526f2Q.html

Thank you! And also you.

Aw, thank you-yes, me too! Oh well…

Hey Charles-try again and make sure that the items you need are selected. :)

Trust me, this is the only way to do this in Illustrator connected to live data!

I think you may be confusing smart with easy. While the first couple of times you do this it will seem fiddly, the benefits of keeping that data connection can far outweigh the setup time. But, you can't please all the people all the time so if it isn't for you, then that's fine.

Hey, thanks. It's tricky, as some people want an explanation around the techniques, and others just want the details. All I can say is that I meet and hear from far more who want the whole explanation, so I write the content to go along with that. I'll work on getting the time down, though-five minutes is a good target to aim at.

I disagree - I enjoy the explanations. Please continue to do exactly what you're doing. The worst videos on KZfaq are those that play music, or have no sound at all, don't explain anything, and leave people guessing. Thank you for being thorough. I create content for a nonprofit and your videos have been very helpful to me as I prepare an infographic for an incredibly important presentation. If we get this grant, it will be because you've helped me to present the information in such a way as to be easily (graphically) understood -- I couldn't have done it without you! :)

Thank you so much! I'm really glad that I've been able to help and I do hope that your project is a success. It is tricky to get the balance right and I do examine where I could improve to get a better middle-ground that suits everyone, but the explanations are an important aspect if you want to go beyond making just the thing in the tutorial. I'm very appreciative that you have just validated that for me and again, thank you! Keep watching! :)