Michelle McCartney
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“Split Into Grid” creates a single live grid object now instead of independent paths and it's awful.
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Hi Egor,
Thanks for chiming in — to clarify, I’m specifically talking about Object > Path > Split Into Grid, not the Rectangular Grid Tool.
In current versions of Illustrator, Split Into Grid creates a single live grid/container object. While it visually appears as a group of rectangles, ungrouping no longer reliably produces independent path objects the way it did in earlier versions. In older versions, ungrouping immediately resulted in discrete rectangles. Now the objects retain a shared structure until forcibly divided. The visual result is the same, but the underlying object model is not.
This breaks workflows where users need immediately separable shapes (print imposition, sticker sheets, dielines, etc.). The workaround now requires Pathfinder > Divide (and multiple ungroups) to get true individual paths, which wasn’t necessary before.
That change in object structure is what I’m referring to — not whether the dialog still exists or whether guides are involved.