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Scaling blended objects!

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
February 15, 2017
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Hi

I have a created a gradient blend of 2 circles filled with colour and then used "replace spine" on a sort of spiral shape, the gradient work fine and looks how I want it but when I come to scale it one of the points goes wonky!

the image on left shows the desired effect image on right shows me scaling it!

any ideas, thanks in advance

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sharp_hands16B8

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So if you release the blend, scale it up like you traditionally would, then reapply the blend, it seems to work fine. It's just the math gets wonky trying to scale the blend.

So if you just use the quick key to make blend and release blend, then scale between those moments, it seems to work fine for me.

Or as mentioned by others, the Scale Tool seems to work fine.

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the_gravyAuthor

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Thanks Mark

I just tried releasing the blend, scaling and re-blend, its a bit of a faff but works fine!

cheers

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Mohammad.Harb

Community Expert

Expand the blend before scaling Object -> Expand

if that did not help, please show a screenshot with an outline view with ( ctrl + Y )

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Which version of Illustrator are you using?

Can you share a sample .ai file?

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the_gravyAuthor

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Hi Kurt & Mohammad

Thanks for the replies, I'm on the latest version I think CC 2017, and it is fine when I expand but was hoping to keep it 'live' to I could change colour etc easily!

thanks

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

That's why I asked if you can share the .ai file, so one can have a look if there are ways to achieve what you want.

Screenshots are good, but sample files are better.

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