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This article describes the pattern creation and editing workflows available in Adobe Illustrator CS6 and later. For information on working with patterns in an earlier version of Illustrator, see Patterns.

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Illustratorcomes with many patterns that you can access in the Swatches panel andin the Illustrator Extras folder on the Illustrator CD. You cancustomize existing patterns and design patterns from scratch withany of the Illustrator tools. Patterns intended for filling objects(fill patterns) differ in design and tiling from patternsintended to be applied to a path with the Brushes panel (brush patterns).For best results, use fill patterns to fill objects and brush patternsto outline objects.

To make the pattern less complex so that it prints morerapidly, remove any unnecessary detail from the pattern artwork,and group objects that are painted with the same color so that theyare adjacent in the stacking order.

If you draw a bounding box around the artwork, make surethat the box is a rectangle, that it is the backmost object of thetile, and that it is unfilled and unstroked. To have Illustratoruse this bounding box for a brush pattern, make sure that nothingprotrudes from it.

Corner tiles must be square and have the same height as sidetiles to align properly on the path. If you plan to use corner tileswith your brush pattern, align objects in the corner tiles horizontallywith objects in the side tiles so that the patterns tile correctly.

For a brush pattern, draw a bounding box that surrounds the objects and coincides with their outer boundaries. If the pattern is to be a corner tile, hold down Shift as you drag to constrain the bounding box to a square.

They only appear when I apply some sort of blend mode to my objects. These particular objects have multiply blend mode applied to them and the dark lines appear where the pattern "connects" in a grid.

The swatch looks like this. It seems like an overlap to me too, but I created the box as a 6x6 square and duplicated objects by moving them by exactly 6 inches. Also in the Pattern tool I set 6 inches as the size of the tile. What's interesting is that when the Pattern tool shows me the preview of how the pattern will look, there is no overlap. Even when I set 9x9 preview so there are many repeats. It only shows later when the pattern is applied to a shape.

Generally speaking a typical monster truck tire has a tread pattern of two straight lines angled almost like a chevron, but not quite touching in the middle of the wheel. I have made a simple group of two black paths grouped together...

This is almost perfect but I want to double the amount of "chevrons" for any given distance along the path (you can see 6 chevrons in the red path here, but I wanted at least 12 chevrons ideally). This would mean that the pattern brush overlaps itself by 50% but I cannot figure out a way to do that.

For your needs the scatter brush suggestion may work. Be aware though that scatter brushes place each instance independently, You won't get the "skewing" and "distortion" on curves the same way a pattern brush distorts. So, it really depends upon the desired artwork.

I recently started doing a lot of designs with pattern fills in illustrator.

One of my clients printed one of my Pdfs using a laserprinter service and when he shared pictures of the final models (paper toys) parts of the pattern were simply missing. I had done dozens of test prints and never had any issues.

I am now wondering if it is safe to send designs including patterns to a digital printing service.

I have sent all the files with patterns expanded but linework feels clumsier or thicker than intended in my testprints. This all confuses me as I thought it should be all the same.

So what is the best practice here. Sending all patterns as expanded artwork or should I leave them as patterns and exporting to Pdf should work.

Can anybody share their experience?

Thank you

Cheers to all

Height and Width control, well, the height and width of the blue tile. Changing the size of this box mostly affects how much spacing is between your pattern elements. All of that white space between your element and the edge of the tile is considered part of the pattern.

In that Pattern Editing Mode, you can also use your new pattern swatch to fill the background of an element. This means that you can have patterns within patterns if you want to achieve really complex solutions. The opportunities here are truly endless.

At the moment I use photoshop to build non geometric patterns, and I used to import and embed the photoshop file itself. Recently I've been experimenting with indexing the photoshop file, saving as a png (to preserve transparency), and dropping/tiling in illustrator. This is very slow and the computer at work can hardly handle it- they crash most of the time upon attempting to save the larger files. Apparently our factory couldnt process one of my designs due to this issue, and a coworker had trouble with my files aswell.

Anyone have any suggestions? Below is an image of the embedded images involved in a single REPEAT I'm working with- each 30"x60"... I'd prefer to keep the pattern creation in illustrator if possible, as doing the same in photoshop seems prone to misalignment/more difficult than necessary.

@Barbara Ash, Unfortuately image trace doesnt seem to give me the fidelity/resolution I'd like. I may be tempted to try the symbol approach but I'm not sure how I'd approach that. I don't work much with symbols. Could I simply place the repeat in a symbol, and throw the symbol into a pattern as though its a seamless tile?

Sorry if my explanation of the problem was confusing- I mostly just wanted to reduce the amount of jpegs in each repeat of my pattern. Creating a seamless tile seemed to be the way to go but I wasnt sure of the best way to make the tile.

Hi all. Have stumbled onto a massively frustrating glitch on the Illustrator pattern tool.

I've made a seamless repeating pattern which I'm using for a series of banners. The pattern tiles seamlessly on Illustrator, but when I export as a JPEG (for my client's social media banners) a tiny joinline becomes visible on the edges of the pattern.

I've zoomed right in on the pattern on Illustrator and join lines definitely aren't there. They only show up in the exports. Anyone had any experience with this? It's a polka dot pattern so don't really have the time to manually paint the join line out every time I need to use the pattern.

Jpeg attached so you can see the issue.

Thanks man! So this worked(ish) but even at 300dpi the edges of the polka dots are a little fuzzy. Plus it seems insane that a program apparently as "industry standard" as Illustrator requires you to rasterize every repeat pattern in a design before you can export something for use.

Is this just a permanent flaw in the pattern tool you reckon? Be great if I didn't have to rasterize multiple layers every time I export and image / banner whatever.

That's mad. So if I export as a JPEG with Art Optimized and 300dpi the join lines in the pattern are clearly visible. If I export a PNG with the exact same settings the join lines are not visible.

The Export As trick works.

Adobe really need to iron out these simple bugs. Constant time wasting!

Thanks so much for the help @federico_platon & @Ton_Frederiks.

But it is caused by another problem, your pattern was originally made in mm and that does not convert to whole pixels. Fractional pixels in pattern dimensions cause these anti-aliasing artifacts (lines).

Illustrator works with a pixelsize as 1/72 of an inch, which makes 1 pixel in Illustrator the same as 1 point. If you use fractional pixels or export at a resolution that is not a multiple of 72 ppi you may introduce additional pixels and get anti-aliasing artifacts. That's why I said that you were lucky when exporting a pattern that contains fractional pixels at 300 ppi.

After my last post about pattern drafting I got so many great comments about the various programs you use, whether as a hobby or professionally. This subject definitely brings the patternmakers out of the woodwork! That makes me happy because I love patternmaking minds. I want to put you all in a room together so we can geek out on subjects like bone structure, sleeve caps, and pattern puzzles.

For example, on this sleeve pattern, I pulled in guides to mark the bicep line and the shoulder notch position. I locked the guides (View > Guides > Lock Guides) so they would not move while I was drafting and moving the sleeve seams around.

Thanks. I tried this method. My pattern is currently in swatches - so I assume that makes a difference. I was unable to select anything with the shapebuilder tool in my pattern. Thanks for the assist.

I dragged the pattern outside on to the artboard, rasterized them, and clipping mask them where the tile bounds were.. but then when i put this rasterized swatch back into swatches, the repeat is lost and the seams are visible!

to rasterise patterns, I have been making bounding boxes with the same dimensions of the pattern tile, then filling the box with the pattern, then rasterising the box. but then this gives that white anti-alias thing around the edges..

The truth is that the answer is not as simple as we would like it to be because it depends a lot on what kind of work you make, how you like to create, and what the end use will be for your patterns. So I wanted to create a detailed reference guide for any of you who want to learn all the pros and cons of each app so you can make your final decision about which one to use. 006ab0faaa