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Assistance Trying to Make a Diagonal Wave Print Seamless

  • August 25, 2021
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Hi,

I am trying to create the attached into a seamless print however, I am coming across issues making it seamless given than there is a slight angle change and I was hoping someone would be able to assist without having to completely change my pattern. It started off as layer one but I wanted to scale it down to 60% and rotate it 315 degrees and now it is no longer seamless :(. Thank you in advance for your help 🙂

PS. I couldn't get my AI file to upload so I've set up a link

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Diagonal pattern tiles are difficult to create.

A very good document about diagonal patterns from Teri Petit (one of the first Illustrator programmers) can be found here: http://tpettit.verio.com/adobe/index.html

Dowload (right click): Constructing Diagonal Pattern Fills (AI 9) and remove the .ps

As far as I understand your problem, the end result should be a rectangle with a single seamless repeatable pattern element.

This is not easy to do with a transformed pattern.

The method shown below (using effects in the Appearance panel) is by scaling the pattern box until it looks seamless. This can result in very large tiles (to infinity and beyond!).

 

 

 

 

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Mike_Gondek10189183Community Expert
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August 25, 2021

Your pattern is seamless, I printed a test page and looks good.

 

If you zoom in and see a thin black line, that does not print is just a defect in the redraw.

 

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August 25, 2021

that is seamless but pretty much i need to give someone the original swatch which has a complete pattern "cycle" in it to print. But because of the slight angle change it would have to be such a big rectangle. Let me know if i dont make sense

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August 25, 2021

to be more specific, side L on my AI file is not seamless with R side, and top is not seamless with bottom, and I need them to be.

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