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    Default How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    This is what I'm trying to achieve:
    I've already created a seamless tile that is 4"x4".
    From that tile I'm trying to create a square of 20"x20" that's also seamless in Xara.

    So the final image will be a seamless 20"x20" square.

    Squares with edges that don't have exact matches is what I'm getting now when I resize the tiles inside the large square.

    The 20"x20" size is just an example, It can have different sizes (10x10, 30x30, etc).

    Any suggestion is welcome!

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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    I reckon your dimensions are wrong. Do check your tiles do not have a Line width.
    Also use Snap to Objects.

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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    Quote Originally Posted by Acorn View Post
    I reckon your dimensions are wrong. Do check your tiles do not have a Line width.
    Also use Snap to Objects.

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    This is the base tile, which is 2"x2":
    https://ibb.co/dQqMC5w

    This is what I get when I resize it inside the 20"x20" square. make a copy of the square and use snapping to put the 2 squares together:
    https://ibb.co/2hRLTFJ

    The result is a non-seamless square.

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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    You're definitely scaling something wrongly.

    The base 2" x 2" tile is okay ... It doesn't seem to have a line width, although it does have a grey line on the left hand side, which comes through in the repeat.

    Scaling this up to 20" x 20", you should get a 10 x 10 repeat so something is really screwy with your tiling/scaling. If you're resizing the base 2" x 2", then your resize is off somewhere.

    For me it repeats like this at 8" x 8"

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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    What were the steps you used to achieve that result? especially how did you resize the base tile inside the 8"x8" square?

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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    the simple way to see if your 2 in by 2 in works is to set your program nudge to 2 inches, clone the tile and then nudge the clone - do they line up - they do, but as keith said there is grey line visible which is a flaw in the tile fill - also, the tile must not have an outline yours do not so that is ok

    I would be tempted to build up the pattern this way and then crop it to the size I wanted

    if you are syncing it to an existing square, make sure the square is fill only and no outline, use the coordinate x/y values on the select tool info bar as reference, that way you may not even need to snap

    if you resize the tile itself enter actual [identical] values for hight and width, do not rely on percentages etc
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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    I forgot to explain that I'm using the bitmap fill to create the pattern.
    This is what I did:

    1- imported the base tile
    2- created a 20"x20" square (without outlines)
    3- select the square and applied the bitmap fill as a "repeating tile" and used CTRL + image handles to resize the tiles while keeping the same width and length ratio.



    I didn't use the method of snapping many base tiles to create a larger square.

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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    I would not do that - I would make a vector shape the same size as the base tile [ eg copy the base tile and then intersect it with a larger rectangle]

    I would apply the base tile to this vector shape, no need to mess about resizing and risking inaccuracy

    I would then build up the larger shape in the way I mentioned before...

    EDIT - forgive me you do not need to do the intersect - just do it with the base tile; in xara there is no difference between a bitmap filled shape and a bitmap
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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    like so - once you have done one row of horizontal base tiles, group it, then you can clone the row in one go and nudge down


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    Default Re: How to create a seamless pattern from a seamless tile?

    I took the 2" x 2" tile and snapped copies to it originally.

    However, just adding the 2" x 2" tile to the drawing anywhere: Draw 8" x 8" square: Add fill: Change fill to the picture bitmap: Change to repeating: Adjust fill handles: I cannot make the fill not seamless whatever I do. Using Shift I can distort it. but it's still seamless.

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