Pattern overlap not overlapping correctly

[Jason29974125lpge]

This overlapping option needs to be fixed or maybe there's a setting I can't find.  I first saw it when trying to make a rope pattern and one piece of the repeated shape overlapped oddly, so I took the same pattern and did another radial repeat (below).  The top circle is the origin point and the rest is the repeated radial.  The left side of the circle should be under the circle on that side to look correct, right now if the radial is tightened there's a very odd and obvious component that is weirdly on top instead of a part of the radial repeated pattern.  Is there a setting to fix this or does Adobe need to fix the issue?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

An object cannot be at the bottom and at the same time at the top.

You have to manually fixe this or try Intertwine:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/intertwine-objects.html

[kphotopage]

Jason, hi.

Ton is correct, that is the normal behavior when you have overlapping shapes.

So to recreate your given example:

(I random recolor as I work.)

I created a rope pattern brush.

I have a circle, with 4 open paths

Effect >Trans. Expand Trans.

10 overlapping stroked circles.

Edit: At that point, I ungrouped all strokes. Then regrouped by the individual stroke colors. So at the end, I had 4 Groups. Then Grouped all.

Apply Pattern brush to strokes.

Finally, All strokes same color.

Perfectly intertwined.

K