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Expanding multiple lines but 1 becomes thinner at a certain spot

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
March 13, 2019
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Hey everyone,

I have this weird bug I assume where I have a group of shapes with outline.

They need to be filled so I try Expand or Create Outline (not sure if I translated right).

Anyway at a certain spot, the outer shape becomes clearly thinner than the others. No matter which method mentioned above I use.

Is this normal behaviour and if not, any known fix? Didn't find much on google or here.

Thanks in advance,

Yannis WS

PS: Screenshots, to clarify: the inner ones are slowly fading out, thickness is not affected at any other area.

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Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Could you please explain again how you are creating these shapes as I don't understand.

Does your issue have anything to do with the Scale Strokes & Effects option? This option is located in many places including the Properties panel. With it selected, the stroke will scale as you scale the object.

YannisWSAuthor

Known Participant

Maybe in some weird way but it shouldn't, the rescale is done with blending but I did that well before I expanded everything into single shapes. Thats not my issue, sorry if that was confusing. The issue is the thickness of the outer ring becoming thinner at a certain point

I should've explained the pictues:

1st: All okay, the paths with strokes before trying to expand/outline stroke

2nd: The left side of the outer shape becomes thinner for some unknown reason, after expanding/outline stroke

3rd Full view to make clear that all shapes have the same thickness, except the outer at a specific place

Michael Bullo

Community Expert

Are you sure you don't have fills on some of the shapes that might be partially obscuring objects below them?

Monika Gause

Community Expert

I don't understand what you're doing there.

You have applied Object > Path > Outline stroke and then you scale it down?

YannisWSAuthor

Known Participant

Yes but not scaled, before I outlined the strokes and stuff I made a blend from the most outer shape to the most inner.

Also opacity lowers.

The problem is shown in the second picture where the line suddenly becomes thinner. It only happens there and I don't understand why.

First I thought I gave it another "stroke shape" where the thickness changes automatically, but it's set to default

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