Unable to Align Stroke with my custom brush strokes

[eggimage]

my custom strokes are forced to align to Center, and cannot be aligned to In/Outside

(both are greyed out as seen in image below)

Is there a way to change that?

Thanks

[tromboniator · Accepted solution]

Brushes are only center-aligned.  Try Effect > Path > Offset Path to achieve the alignment you want.

[Doug A Roberts]

or use width profiles

[Stefano5C7C]

Sorry, but the offset path doesn't work. Even changing the offset path parameters, my stroke is always in the middle of the brush. Pretty annoying since my brush is semitransparent (yellow circles and "sticks" in the figure).

(p.s. the other answer "widht profiles" is not helpful)

Thanks

 

[Ton Frederiks]

If you drag a brush out of the brushes panel you will see an invisible box in the back.

Try moving the box up or down to change the brush position on the path.

Drag it back to the brushes panel to test.

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

Offset path should work fine on a closed shape. For open paths, I would build your brush like this:

So there's a no stroke/no fill rectangle double the height of the artwork.

[leatherfoot]

This is such an simple and clever solution.  Worked perfectly, thank you!