what am I doing wrong?

**Matt_343** · 24 June 2006, 06:31 PM

I am trying to draw a flower on the tree in my backyard and when I try to blend , from the drawing you see what happens. It works fine on one and it acts weird on the other. (the one on the left is the one I am having problems with. The one on the right works for me.) I tried placing the pieces in the same order, top to bottom. made sure the anchor point is the same.

Ohhh.. the inhumanity!!!!

**-=Drifter=-** · 24 June 2006, 06:36 PM

yeah, blends are sometimes very strange
how about just cloning and flipping the other one?

**gwpriester** · 24 June 2006, 08:05 PM

When you select your two objects for the blend Xara highlights all the control points. After you have created your blend, find the same control point on each object and drag a new path between these two points. Your blend should straighten out.

Gary

**Matt_343** · 24 June 2006, 08:56 PM

Drifter, I was doing that but wanted to create over 20 pedels and thought that blend would be faster.
Gary, why does it work blending to the right, but gets messed up blending to the left?

**Egg Bramhill** · 24 June 2006, 11:50 PM

Matt

Try this

I start to babble towards the end so disregard that bit!

**alanstancliff** · 25 June 2006, 06:30 AM

Great demo, Egg.

I'm learning lots from you.

Regards,

Alan

**Penny O'Rorke** · 25 June 2006, 09:03 AM

Thanks so much Egg - a great help.

**ankhor** · 25 June 2006, 09:43 AM

good tutorial Egg, I discovered the blend option by mistake one day
and it very handy.

And I don`t undrstand why the matt 343 just did`t duplicate the shape
and flipped it vertically?

**stygg2003** · 25 June 2006, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Matt_343

I am trying to draw a flower on the tree in my backyard and when I try to blend , from the drawing you see what happens. It works fine on one and it acts weird on the other. (the one on the left is the one I am having problems with. The one on the right works for me.) I tried placing the pieces in the same order, top to bottom. made sure the anchor point is the same.

Ohhh.. the inhumanity!!!!

I hope Matt you watched Eggs Vid on the blend tool, it shows and explains all, also the vase blend is useful to watch as well, as the problem you came across is similar in both cases. It is also, I have found,useful to get to know the Position Profile and alter the shape to what you require.
Stygg2003