Please help - reflection tool for mandala project stopped working

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January 1, 2025
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Hey community,

I recently started drawing a mandala design with the following instructions, so that I only needed to draw in one pie piece and it would reflect around the whole mandala:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/how-to-draw-mandala-using-illustrator/td-p/11840705

Unfortunately i've nearly gotten to the end of my manadal and the reflection has stopped working. When ever I draw a shape in the original pie piece it does not reflect in the others as it has been.

Does anyone know how i might be able to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

Danica

Monika Gause

Community Expert

So you used an effect?

And when you did edits earlier, then it worked?

Maybe you have grouped your artwork before applying the effect. In that case you would need to double click the group and then make your edits.

Can you upload your file? You would have to change the file extension from .ai to .pdf, then you can upload it.,

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Danica282564626b0dAuthor

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I used the reflect tool and some layers and was able to draw in one piece of the shape and it would reflect in all others. I've tried to enter the separate groups (good idea), but this unforunately didn't work.

Here is a picture of the mandala. Where i've drawn the individual shape is the piece that should reflect, but as you can see it's only solo.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Ah, this is a great tutorial - thanks for sharing. I did something similar to set the repeat tool up, but didn't include the clipping mask functions

I think what I might do is set up another project with this tutorial and see if I can paste the slice from my original project into this and continue from there

You're welcome.

When copying over your original shapes, I would copy the guides with it, so you can make sure that you use the same center.

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