Blend tool

[lucasgurdjian]

dear Community,
I m trying to do regular steps into a R shape as attached.
I succesfully draw the O but the R is another story.
If someone can help me on this, that would be awesome 🙌🏻
thank you

[Monika Gause]

Can you please upload your AI file to Dropbox or the like and post a link, so we can check it out?

[lucasgurdjian]

sure, Here it is :
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZX7uBZj5OGWKI1EQ7GDQbPKvkwJHOEe0yk

thank you for your help

[Monika Gause]

THank you.

OK. Make sure to delete points that are not needed. There are a couple ones on the outer path. They need to be gone. Then: https://youtu.be/QugKyw7lfrY 

[lucasgurdjian]

thank you for your asnwer 🙂
Unfortunatly after cleaning up the dots, the shape is still not clean as your video 🤷🏻

[Monika Gause]

Did you do it exactly like I did?

[Bobby Henderson]

You may need to break your "R" path into smaller sections and perform the blend work on each section. Sometimes it's necessary to reverse path direction on one of the two paths to get the blend to work properly.

[lucasgurdjian]

Thank you very much, it actually works !
But I not happy with some of the lines (right of the R).
Dont know if there is a solution for that

[Bobby Henderson]

Unfortuntely some path segments may have to be manually drawn to bridge some gaps. Some of this depends on the source letter and its typeface style. The letter "R" can be pretty tough depending on the typeface. I have dealt with this problem from time to time when creating centerline effects in letters for a range of purposes. In the past I often did this for making single stroke neon lettering patterns. Various kinds of inline or 3D chisel effects need to have a centerline created in the letters. Even with all the rage about "AI," computers just don't know how to automatically create this kind of stuff. They can't make objective decisions like the human brain can manage.

[kphotopage]

Lucas, Hi.

I took a totally different approach.

I started with the interior part of the R

Closed the Path

Object>Path>Offset. I used 10pt

With Shape Builder (minus), I trimmed off the bottom.

No Funkie, wonkie, at that joint. 😀

K