Select Window > Generate Patterns.
Last updated on
Sep 11, 2025
Learn how to manage the pattern variations generated using Text to Pattern.
You can view and manage all the pattern variations generated in your document in the Generate Patterns panel. You can't view them in the Generated Variations panel.
In the Generate Patterns panel, hover over a variation, select More options , and then select one of these options:
- Add to swatches: Adds the variation as a pattern swatch in the Swatches panel.
- Edit Pattern: Gives customization options for the pattern swatch.
- Goor Result ot Poor Result: Provides feedback options for the variation.
- Delete variation: Deletes the variation.
Note
- For a pattern variation added as a swatch, you can delete one without affecting the other.
- You can undo the deletion of a swatch, but you can't undo the deletion of a variation. In both cases, the applied pattern on the canvas remains unaffected.
- If you delete an applied pattern on the canvas, the variation and the swatch remain unaffected.
Unlike the objects generated using Text to Vector Graphic and Generative Shape Fill, there are no linked variations for a pattern applied on the canvas. Generate Similar also isn't available for variations generated using Text to Pattern.
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