What am I missing with the Blend tool here?

Hi I have experienced this frequently. It is frustrating I know. I found that it was related to anchor points and wheter or not there was an out of place corner point. Since I am self taught some here dont like that I believed it was something I was doing and persevered. And believe me it took some doing. I found work arounds like expanding and then manually fixing the crooked strokes. I read the response from Monika and will investigate.

Personally, I have never had much luck with Blends when there were not matching number of anchors.

Here is another method to recreate if anyone is interested.

I started with a rectangle. Then Object>Path>Offset. I used 10pt

I gave that new rectangle corner radius of 6pt

Again Object>Path>Offset.

That gave me 6 closed paths. Group.

Next, Line tool, create 6 vertical lines, 10pt spacing. Group.

Rotate that group angle 45

Put together, Rectangles and rotated Group.

Then Object>Live Paint, Strokes. I random color as I work.

Expand Live Paint and Ungroup

Object>Select same Stroke color and Object>Path>Join.

Do for each color

Lastly, (White arrow) I select the corner anchor at that miter, and gave it a radius.

I used 30,24,18,12 and 6pt. This gives the appearance of a blend.

Fun to do.

K

One of your shapes has a lot of corners, the other one is round. That requires additional things to do. Please share the file (change the extension to PDF to do so)

Hello @Howard_F,

Thanks for reaching out. Would you mind sharing some more details, like the exact version of the OS/Illustrator, a link to the tutorial, and the exact details of your workflow, including a screen recording of the problem (https://adobe.ly/3LGXVGm), so we can better assist you?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav