Uneven stroke using width tool

[Kayla Danforth]

I am wanting to use the width tool to widen the stroke of the red line to match the black line, but when I get the bounding box to the desired size, it goes all wonky and uneven like this. I want it to be even on both sides. As you can see, the width point edit box claims that the sides are both the same, but it is not appearing as such.

Help would be appreciated!

[Monika Gause]

Can you select that path and show the Appearance panel?

Or maybe upload a demo file that contains this path? Change the file extension to PDF in order to upload here.

[Kayla Danforth]

Let me know if this helps. There are a few lines doing this on the bottom of the front face of the cube and a few lines on the top face as well.

I don't know if this is noteworthy or not, but it seems to only happen at the beginning/end of a path, depending on which direction the path is going.

[Monika Gause]

Does it still do that when you do View > Preview on CPU?

It does not do that for me.

[Kayla Danforth]

Sorry for delayed response, I didn't see this. Yes it still looks the same when I do preview on CPU...

Could that mean a hardware difference? 

[Monika Gause]

Possibly.

Maybe report it as a bug to https://illustrator.uservoice.com 

[Anubhav M]

Hello @Kayla Danforth,

We understand that encountering technical issues can be frustrating. Would you mind sharing some more details, like the exact version of the OS/Illustrator, system config (CPU/GPU/Memory), a public link to a sample Ai file after uploading it to Dropbox/Google Drive/etc., and a screen recording of the problem (https://adobe.ly/4byfbZb), so we can investigate this further?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

[Kayla Danforth]

I am using Illustrator 28.5, Intel Core i3-4330 CPU, Intel HD Graphics 4600 GPU, and 16GB memory.

Here is the link to the file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Vd464rNnV2I9vkwvxcPSMxGJKHjVojD/view?usp=sharing

You'll notice that a lot of the strokes have been fixed, I found a bit of a workaround (adding a second width node right before the end of the stroke, instead of adjusting the width at the very end of the stroke). This worked for most of them but isn't exactly ideal.

Here is the link to the screen recording: https://www.loom.com/share/bff85e6225fb48769715b642be8aefac?sid=ca5cebe7-d6e8-4e02-94ea-b9ae45d97bab

Please let me know if you have any issues.

[Anubhav M]

Hello @Kayla Danforth,

Thanks for sharing the details. Would you mind sharing the sample file again after changing the link to Public so I can check it on my end?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Thanks,

Anubhav

[Kayla Danforth]

Sorry, I don't do this very often. See if this works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Vd464rNnV2I9vkwvxcPSMxGJKHjVojD/view?usp=sharing

[Anubhav M]

Hello @Kayla Danforth,

Thanks for sharing the file. Kindly allow me some time to check this with the team.

Anubhav