Select Window > Generate Patterns.
Last updated on
Sep 11, 2025
Learn how to customize generated patterns using pattern settings.
In the Generate Patterns panel, hover over the variation, select More options , and then select Edit Pattern.
Even when you edit a generated pattern from the Generate Patterns panel, the corresponding swatch in the Swatches panel (Window > Swatches) gets updated. The original variation in the Generate Patterns panel remains unchanged.
In the Pattern Options dialog box, adjust the following settings as needed:
- Name: Type a new swatch name.
- Width and Height: Type the desired dimensions for the pattern tile.
- Size Tile to Art: Select to automatically fit the tile size to the artwork boundaries.
- Move Tile with Art: Select to move the tile boundaries together with the artwork.
- Overlap: Select an option to determine whether artwork in the tile overlaps in front of or behind adjacent tiles.
- Copies: Select the number of tile copies to display in the preview.
- Dim Copies to: Select and adjust the transparency of the repeated tiles in the preview.
- Show Tile Edge: Select to display the tile boundaries while editing.
- Show Swatch Bounds: Select to display the boundary edges of the pattern swatch while editing.
Note
You can't modify Tile Type and Brick Offset for a generated pattern.
Select Done in the pattern editing bar at the top of the canvas.
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