I'm using the blend command to clone an object along a curve orienting the object as it follows the shape.
My drawing is already pretty heavy as I've done this multiple times across the design and the object that repeats is made of more than 100 smaller elements.
So, I can feel the zoom and pan very sluggish under the weight of the drawing.

I tried now making a bitmap copy of the object to repeat hoping that it will lighten the memory requirements. It blends fine initially in a straight line but when I try to wrap it to the curve it fails and I only get the first and last objects ignoring the number of copies required.
Is this by design that the blend doesn't wrap if the elements are bitmaps? I'm almost certain that I could do that in the past ...
Thanks