Blend problem

Either I have a mental block or it might be a bug (or something else)

I try to make a blend like in the attached image for a perspective image but I only seem to get a "straight" blend or a "twisted" one. I've done similar images in previous versions of Xara and haven't had the problem before (as far as I remember which isn't always that far :) ), but now I don't seem to get it to work no matter what I do (I tried flipping the ellipse and converting to shape etc)

How about using three step blend? Maybe there's better way to do this but i don't know about it :)

yes, I have used a two step blend as a workaround, but still I would like to achieve wit a single blend

Hmm - I tried in X1, Xtreme 2 and Xtreme 3 but I cannot get a result without another step.

Here's how I finally chose to do this.

There's another way;

Create three objects
make spaced equaly
select middle object and 2 step blend to top object
select again middle object and blend to bottom object
You can go on and on(if you want to)

Hans

Ok, I guess I have to blame my memory as usual :(

Thanks for the help

Stop worrying Paul it's not your memory. Create an Elipse and convert to editable shapes.

Clone and move down the page.

Select the top node of the bottom elipse and blend it to the bottom node of the top elipse.

That's not what Paul wanted to achieve Egg. Have a look at the original post again. Sorry.

Ah yes Keith, your correct :o

gnurf,
As far as i know that´s not possible to create in just one step.
That´s one of the improvements i would like to see in the blend tool. Illustrator already do this. Basically we would be able to select 2 or more shapes click on a "new blend all button" and Xara will calculate all the intermediate steps between the various shapes.
Maybe someone at Xara take a look at this thread who knows... This shouldn´t be too complicated to implement (i think).

Isn't blending from A to B and B to C to D etc. easy enough.

Hans' solution didn't seem that difficult to me and was exactly what I expected to see. Profiles work perfectly etc.

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Originally Posted by ss-kalm

Isn't blending from A to B and B to C to D etc. easy enough.

Hans' solution didn't seem that difficult to me and was exactly what I expected to see. Profiles work perfectly etc.

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No, it isn't easy enough when you can do it with one blend :)

And my memory was only part wrong: the "perspective" blend I remember was done in CorelDraw. I just tested in CD and worked as I expected (and I thought it was logical enough to work in Xtreme as well). Make an ellipse, duplicate and flip the copy, create blend.

As I said, I've used the multi-blend workaround, but in this case the CorelDraw way is easier to use if you are making for example perspectival(sp?) images.

Yes agreed in this instance CD is much simpler.

Don't get me wrong, I agree the single blend method is much better and if the bottom copy is flipped, it's logical to assume that the stages of the blend should also have been flipped. It's much more intuitive and works far better from every point of view. All I was trying to point out, was that in the absence of the "right" way it should be done, that the A-B-C blend was not a difficult workaround.