Blending along a cruve problem with spacing and orientation

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December 13, 2023
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I trying to blend along a path and cannot seem to understand why the spacing is getting messed up somewhere around the middle of the path. Some shapes are overlapping because they're out of place. Not sure what's going on. In the attachment, I am blending along the center line, the two shapes at either end of the snake curve.

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Correct answer Jacob Bugge

nmycps,

Apart from the orientation, which seems to be set to Align to Page rather then Path, there can be issues with rougue points and whatnot, but one fundamental property of Blends is that lengths of segments (and Handles) matter.

So maybe one thing to try first could be to see if you can just add a sufficient number of Anchor Points, which can be done with the Object>Path>Add Anchor Points. Ctrl/Cmd+Z is your friend if it fails to help.

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nmycpsAuthor

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Once I found a wildly out of place handle, I moved it back over to the node on the left and that solved my problem.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

For my part you are welcome, nmycps, and thank you very much for sharing.

Jacob Bugge

Correct answer

Community Expert

nmycps,

Apart from the orientation, which seems to be set to Align to Page rather then Path, there can be issues with rougue points and whatnot, but one fundamental property of Blends is that lengths of segments (and Handles) matter.

So maybe one thing to try first could be to see if you can just add a sufficient number of Anchor Points, which can be done with the Object>Path>Add Anchor Points. Ctrl/Cmd+Z is your friend if it fails to help.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Before doiong that, we would need to know if there is a duplicate anchor point in that corner, which is pretty likely.

Ares Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

I get different results when changing value in Bland panel. I think it depend how script calculate distance between object and depends on form of the object