Sketch 53.2 smart guides not working
I am looking to find out how to export this seamless file that Pattern Maker promises to create in its form- with all the elements overlapping as the shoud when they are output to a bigger size. To explain better- to make the Pattern maker swatch work for the purpose I would have to create the pattern with Pattern maker and then create an artboard of the size I want to print on- that would have to be say 10 meters by 1.5 meters for example! That would not be possible to contain in a managable file! The printer of such goods take a one tile file which flows seamlessly to create a pattern of desirable size. I attach a link to one of many articles about creating seamless paterns in Illustrator previous versionsīy your example you have a tile, OK, but this is not good enough to send to printers or create a seamless pattern so as to print a wallpaper, or fabric, or wrapping paper, anything with repeat seamless pattern.The pattern will not repeat with an arbitrary backround attach- that background will still be there. I feel and assume that all 17 groups should be be natively supported as well as the built in export options from the Pattern Tool itself, as mentioned above.
#Sketch 53.2 smart guides not working update
I truly hope Adobe refines and matures the "Illustrator CS6 Pattern Maker Tool" in a timely manner as it seems like it was rushed to market as an under developed tool and needs refined and improved upon quickly and an update released to improve upon its current status.Īnother major drawback is the inability to easily target all 17 wallpaper groups. Here is a recent thread about using "Save for Web" with the Pattern Maker Tool:īut even that seems to be rather non-conformed to any standard or ease of use. I would certainly expect for the ability to save the pattern swatch as a vector. The lack of a direct method from with in the Pattern Maker Tool to export your pattern(s) is certainly a glaring drawback.
The "Adobe Illustrator CS6 Pattern Maker Tool" is a great concept of a feature, however its seems somewhat underdeveloped in certain areas, even though its being touted and used as a major selling point for Illustrator CS6. They are solely based on things I have read and seen regarding the new Pattern Maker Tool in Illustrator CS6. Given that, here are my 2 cents, if I am wrong in my statements below I would like to be corrected and advised otherwise. Tried creating an artboard to match the size of the pattern tile and fill that with that pattern but that does not work and the pattern is not seamless afterwards There does not seem to be any export option for the actual tile? Hope this makes sense. The new Pattern Maker is great in Illustrator CS6 but can it be of any use for textile design? Once the pattern is created I just need the actual pattern tile which I can send for output as seamless pattern.