Repeat > Grid only works with "Proportional Shapes"?

[Roger Breton]

I am running into a bit of frustration with the Repeat > Grid command.

I wanted to experiment with rectangle shapes but it seems it's only working with "regular" / 'proportional" kinds of shapes like "Squares" and "Circles"? Here is a screen capture of three kinds of shapes obtained through the Repeat > Grid command. As you can see, the "Squares" and "Circles" behave as expected but the "Oval" at the bottom is not being "honored" by the command? All I get is a kind of "Step and Repeat":

Is it possible that it only honors what are considered as "Shapes"?

[Monika Gause]

These shapes are still ellipses:

[Roger Breton]

I agree, Monika.

But, depending how the "Ellipŝe" is contructed with the Ellipse tool, Repeat does not work:

This "Ellipse", for example, does not Repeat.

 

[Ton Frederiks]

Seems to work with wathever object I start with.

[Kurt Gold]

Looks like your "Non-proportional" sample in the screenshot is a selection of two (or more) separate Repeat objects.

Can you share a sample Illustrator file in case that does not apply?

[Roger Breton]

Here:
Test Repeat Grid.ai

[Kurt Gold]

Thanks for the sample file.

When you zoom in a bit the Repeat widgets should appear.

Obviously, this is a bug in conjunction with the zoom level (not with the actual objects).

[Roger Breton]

I suspect it has to do with the Bounding Box? Because, at "small scale", when I'm zoomed out as in my initial attempts, the Bounding box did not appear? I had noticed that, as soon as the Bounding Box was visible, the Repeat always worked.
Thanks for your kind help, Kurt 🙂

[Ton Frederiks]

If I make the oval less flat, it works.

It looks like the height of the initial oval prevents the widgets to show.

Looks a little buggy.