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mizzdizzylizzy
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May 26, 2018
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Pattern Swatch Bounding Box Unrecognized

  • May 26, 2018
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I've been working for a decade creating patterns on AI and had resolvable issues, but recently I've been encountering this problem and it's driving me nuts.

The transparent bounding box is at the bottom of the pattern. However, it is not recognized in the pattern swatch.

I've been encountering this issue with other patterns I've attempted to create within the past couple of weeks and wondering if it's an up.

I would appreciate to know of any solutions or insights. Thank you for your time.

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

It is not very clear what you are showing in your screendump, but it isnot a pattern tile.

Can you drag out the pattern from the Swatches panel onto the Artboard, it is named <Group> in the layers panel.

Can you show the contents of this group in the Layers panel? The last item in the group is a  <Path> that is the no stroke no fillrectangle that defines the bounding box of the pattern.

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FrankieGS
FrankieGS
Inspiring
August 18, 2021

Hi, can anyone help me with the same problem. I've wasted hours now trying to fix it. I was on the phone to support last night and no solution. I have restarted Illustrator, restarted my machine etc.

I am confused about how to implement the solution described by mizzdizzylizzy

"By the way, after I saw what was going on inside the <Grounp>, I deleted the <Path> layer and newly added a transparent bounding box and dragged back into swatch and the correct pattern was created."

When I go in to edit the pattern I can't edit any of the layers they are all locked.

If I drop the pattern swatch onto the artboard to edit it that way, I can't understand how I would get the no fill no stroke bounding box to paste into the correct position.

Please can anyone help?

 

 

Frankie

Ton Frederiks
Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
August 18, 2021

You don't need to create a bounding box in the Pattern Maker, it will be created automatically.

Just change the Width and Height values in the Pattern Options panel. 

    FrankieGS
    FrankieGS
    Inspiring
    August 18, 2021

    That's great thank you, I see. 
    Do you happen to know where I can find the online help page for patterns? I realise I was looking at an

    >>>> out-of-date guide https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/patterns.html <<<<<

    I have found a brief up-to-date video (others may find useful) https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/illustrator/how-to/create-pattern.html

    But it would be nice to see the in words version too.

    I take it you can't utilise layers in the pattern edit mode?

    Thanks again

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    Mariam Hovhannesyan
    Community Expert
    May 26, 2018

    Can you show us the pattern in pattern editing mode?

    Ton Frederiks
    Ton FrederiksCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 26, 2018

    It is not very clear what you are showing in your screendump, but it isnot a pattern tile.

    Can you drag out the pattern from the Swatches panel onto the Artboard, it is named <Group> in the layers panel.

    Can you show the contents of this group in the Layers panel? The last item in the group is a  <Path> that is the no stroke no fillrectangle that defines the bounding box of the pattern.

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      mizzdizzylizzyAuthor
      New Participant
      May 27, 2018

      Thank you Ton, here is what was going on in the drag+drop swatch <Group> layer. As you can see at the very bottom layer, there is a <Path> that encompasses the pasta. The transparent bounding box that I originally created for this pattern (<Rectangle> layer above <Path>) is gone. The original pattern did have a bounding box, and no path around the pasta. Why does this happen?

      By the way, after I saw what was going on inside the <Grounp>, I deleted the <Path> layer and newly added a transparent bounding box and dragged back into swatch and the correct pattern was created.

        Ton Frederiks
        Ton Frederiks
        Community Expert
        May 27, 2018

        It sure looks that the bottom path was acting as the pattern bounding box.

        Why that happened? Hard to tell, but you solved it in the right way.

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