4 Replies Latest reply: Mar 20, 2012 7:20 AM by Rodieck RSS

    pattern doesn't match pattern source

    Rodieck Community Member

      I'm working on a pattern of bricks where I want the grout to show between the bricks.  I had a single layer at the bottom of the layers stack with the grout color (I've changed the color of the grout to be very visible.)  This looked fine in my original ai file.

       

      grout problem original.JPG

       

       

      But when I create a pattern from this design and paste it into another file, the pattern is different.  The grout is visible behind the second column of bricks, but not between the first (and third, which is a copy of the first):

       

      grout problem in pattern.JPG

       

      I'm at a loss.

       

      I'm using Illustrator CS5 on a Dell Windows7 64-bit machine.

        • 1. Re: pattern doesn't match pattern source
          Monika Gause CommunityMVP

          Don't understand what you are doing there. Please elaborate.

          • 2. Re: pattern doesn't match pattern source
            Steve Fairbairn Community Member

            Show us your pattern tile.

            • 3. Re: pattern doesn't match pattern source
              Jesseham Community Member

              Show us a screenshot of your appearance panel with the white-grouted patterned object selected.

              • 4. Re: pattern doesn't match pattern source
                Rodieck Community Member

                Finally found the problem.  I had first created a matrix of rectangles to help me place my bricks (the rounded rectangles).  Then apparently, on the second column of bricks, I had gone back and deleted the rectangles in the matrix for that column.  Then, when I got back to it several days later, I apparently had forgotten I had done that.  When I created my first column, on the same rectangular grid, I had just turned off the eye icon for those rectangles.  (Then I copied the two columns to generate all the columns I needed.)  From there on out, everything looked copacetic, and the orange grout showed through just fine on all columns.  That's what is shown in the first illustration above.

                 

                But when I created the pattern, I did a Select All and defined the pattern.  Then I used this pattern in another file, as shown in the second illustration above.  So I've now learned that selecting defining a pattern will pick up even those sub-layers with the visibility turned off.  An important bit of info that I hadn't realized before.

                 

                Sorry that my original explanation of the problem wasn't clear.