Hi-I've been making a repeat pattern by tiling a design: Working in a 4in square for the tiles.I group my objects, place a no-outline no-fill 4in square on top of that design. Then use the intersect tool to cut out a clean 4in square tile.With a 4x4in document grid, (snap to grid + snap to object) I ctr C + ctr V then slide the new tiles to 'click' into place along the grid - horizontally and vertically - until I have the desired size of my repeat pattern for printing.It worked perfectly for 2 weeks, the object outlines of each new tile fitting perfectly with its neighbours.And now they don't, they're out by a tiny gap on almost all the object out lines on all sides. I've tested my earlier patterns within their original docs and they all work, but the newest documents don't, and I'm baffled as to why not. To the best of my knowledge, I haven't changed anything. I lie, I added a fill to the objects but initially that didn't prove a problem either. Any ideas? I'm a bit desperate now as my print deadline is looming.Thanks!
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Tiling working.cdr
Sorry about that, CD said the file too big. Broke it down into 3 - hope this works.
Tiling not working.cdr
Sorry Eskimo - it's like playing dominoes blindfolded, not sure this is working[:$]
TIling really not working.cdr
Last one.
Looking at some of this, it appears to me that some of your artwork was not positioned quite correctly before cutting the tiles. Note that some of the artwork is duplicated between the top piece and bottom piece on each of these.
You are also going to have a tiny bit of weirdness - perhaps not a problem at the scale at which you are using this; I don't know - where you appear to be cutting a closed curve (example would be the rim of the pocket watch). If you select one of the nodes on that curve and "break apart", then it is no longer a close curve, and it will turn out more like this after using the Intersection operation:
I tried this using some of the "uncut" pictures from the files you uploaded. I don't know exactly how you did the alignment of the artwork, but here's how I did it.
Started with a 4.5" x 4.5 " rectangle, then positioned images on the top and left edges:
Selected the two pictures on the top edge, then used the Transformations Docker (Position) to create one copy with X = 0, Y = -4.5 relative to the original position.
Same thing for the two pictures on the left edge, but with X = 4.5, Y = 0 relative.
Grouped the pictures. With them selected, used the Crop tool, with Snap to Objects active to pick up the corner nodes of the rectangle. Deleted the rectangle.
When tiled, things line up just fine on all of the pictures.
Your Snap to Document Grid approach works fine. Another easy way to quickly lay out an array of tiles is to again use the Transformations Docker (Position), specifying multiple copies. Two operations,and you have a rectangular array of tiles.