Envelope distort not doing what I want

[Basant Mishra]

Hello,

I'm trying to fit a design into a pentagone through envelope distort but not getting the desired result.

I have attached an image for referance.

Please help.

Regards

Basant

[Monika Gause]

Envelopes always have 4 corners. Not more not less.

So that will not work like this. Probably it will be easier to just make an (isometric) distortion and then cut off what you con't need.

[Basant Mishra]

Hello Monika,

Thank you for response. As you mentioned evelope distort works well with four corners, I sliced up the hexagone as well as design and then applied envelpe distort. But the resut is awful. Can you tell what am I doing wrong?

[Monika Gause]

The object already has that shape. I'm not sure what you want to achieve. The envelope can be made to work better, but it's just not the way to achieve whatever it is that you want to do here: https://youtu.be/KTLYyYNjlng 

[Basant Mishra]

Hello, thank you for taking the time to make this video. But still the outer edges is curved. I wanted the design to strech fit in perfect hexagone. If I know the method the it will be useful in other design project.
How does isometric distortion work(as you mentioned in your first response)?

[Monika Gause]

Like this: https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-create-advanced-isometric-illustrations-using-the-ssr-m... 

There are other methods as well.

[Bobby Henderson]

The original blue and black icon looks hexagon shaped, but in an uneven manner (the top of the icon looks more narrow than the bottom). Are you trying to fit the design into an equalateral hexagon shaped container? If that is the case then the blue and black graphic will have to be re-built using the even hexagon shape as a source to build up the straight intersecting diagonal lines. It's not hard to do at all, but it will take a bit of path and shape editing to do the job. Using envelopes or other similar effects will only warp the original graphic and cause the straight line work to curve in undesireable ways.

[barbara_a]

Your best results will come from drawing the design from scratch rather than trying to use distortions.

[Basant Mishra]

Yes I think so, but is there a way to fit it inside hexagone container?

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

For example like this: https://youtu.be/f0L6pmmDwLg

The process can be organized better, of course.

[Basant Mishra]

Yes, I think recreating it with grid is the best solution.
Thank you for your help!

[Monika Gause]

You're welcome!

Always good to check out the options first.