Pattern Help
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- matt25
I want to make a diagonal line pattern in illustrator
- I draw a diagonal line
- put a bounding box around it
- define patternhowever, when i fill with the pattern there is a space between each diagonal line
how do you make it seemless?
- matt250
c'mon
- unknown0
I've never done this and I use freehand but this is what I'd do:
draw some horizontal lines one above the other, make sure theyre evenly distributed and form a square. Now draw a sq box, group the lines and align the box and the lines so they're one over the other. Now paste the lines into the box and rotate 45 degrees. Before you do this make sure your top line is aligned with the top edge of the box and your bottom line with the bottom, the others distributed evenly between. That should do it.
Hope that helps I'm a little drunk.
- matt250
hehe thanks but i'm still a bit confused. anyone got a simpler explanation?
- rob_pc0
Can you sketch it out in Photoshop, and upload, so I can see understand exactly what you're talking about . I might be able to help.
- matt250
somebody has got to know
- rob_pc0
i see what you're talking about now...
dude, I have tried everything i know and i can figure it out either.
I'll keep trying and ask around. Now i want to know too, damnit!
- matt250
hehe - i know - it should be simple but we are not seeing it
- rob_pc0
my best guess is, that since the bounding box is always going to be a square, and since the box defines the pattern that is repeated, and since you are doing a diaganal line, that the result will always be like you are seeing... that is a small gap between each repeated pattern.
My only guess is to try it another way. Draw the diagonal line copy paste and duplicate it how many ever times, draw your box around it all and just simply use a mask to hide the lines outside of the box.
???
- matt250
yeah, that would work