Segment circle into layers

Question

I want to divide a circle into 5 equal segments such that each segment will be on it's own layer. In general I want to create a loading animation that would consist of 5 images with number of visible segments increasing in each of them.

So far I've managed to draw a segmented circle following this question: How do I divide a circle into equal parts like a pie chart with Adobe Illustrator? but I have no idea how to split segments into layers.

Answer 1

Basic steps...

Create the divided circle with the Polar Grid Tool

Use the Live Paint Bucket Tool to fill the wedges (this turns the shapes into objects rather than a circle with lines through it)

Expand the Live Paint Group by clicking the Expand button on the Control bar

Object > Ungroup several times so that everything is ungrouped.

Then Release to Layers in the Layers Panel Menu to create a layer for each wedge.

Here's an animation of this (1MB)
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