: Distorted shapes and curves I did a project a while ago where all the curves and a lot of the shapes were distorted. Unfortunately I only noticed the distortion after having saved the file.

@Caterina889

An explanation of what is wrong with that image wouldn't hurt. I mean.... none of us saw the original. :)

Options to watch:


Scale Stokes and Effects (turn this off if you want stroke weights to remain consistent)
Align to Pixel Grid (Turn this off if you aren't creating images for pixel-based displays)


Just my guessing... looks like Scale Strokes & Effects was on before you scaled. So stroke weights got reduced a great deal for some items when you reduced their size. You can easily fix that by selecting the items and resetting the stroke weight.

Of course, in some cases you may need to redraw because at smaller sizes spaces also get smaller and the space between 2, 1pt strokes may not be enough clearance.

Another tip is try and always work at the same, comfortable, size for you - whether that's large or small doesn't matter. If you tend to stick to relatively the same basic size when creating things, combining elements from different files gets easier and things aren't so wildly different in aspect ratios.

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@Kevin459

The warping might be a result of you not smoothing the curves or a bug in the software. I haven't encountered this exact problem before but a similar kind in 3D modelling. Look on the forums if there is bug associated with smoothing and try to fix the issue.

Hope this helps.

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