Using reflect or object - repeat causes stroke-only layers to misalign
When attempting to mirror / repeat a stroke-based object, it reflext along the extremity of the stroke, not the shape path itself. This is insanely annoying when trying to work with strokes.
The path itself is the part that should be mirrored and the stroke applied afterwards.
It wouldn't be so bad if we could use snapping on the object > repeat > mirror but even that doesn't work and you have to eye-ball it. This makes for poor precision.
Daniel Conder
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Yep, there is no direct way to force Repeats to NOT respect the Preview Bounds and use geometric ones instead. Upvoted.
But we can make Ai do what we need without eyeballing, if we clip the line into a clipping mask, which are not that hard to align to each other, and only then wrap it into a mirror repeat — like the attached image shows. Takes a couple of extra steps, but works.
