Elliptical gradient arms not at 90 degrees

[Gear maker]

My project was using a lot of gradients of various types.  Somehow when I turned one of the radials into an elliptical the arms are not at 90 degrees.  I didn't know this was even possible.  Is there a way to change this angle?  I can't see where it would affect the gradient, much.  Anyone have any ideas?  

 

None of the other ellipticals have had this property.  The shape is attached if you are curious.

 

 

test22.afdesign

 

 

[A_B_C]

Hi there,

 

I must confess that I was curious about this issue … I believe it has to do with rotating a circle, resetting the bounding box afterwards and then deforming it to an ellipse … at least this was the way I could reproduce it … as you said, it does not affect the gradient very much (and I believe the behavior does make sense when you look at the video). 

 

Have a nice day,

cheers, Alex  :)

 

EDIT Deleted attachment due to upload limits.

[Gear maker]

Alex, very good.  I don't think I did a reset selection box, but maybe accidentally...  Don't know how you came up with this.  I was just left scratching my head.  Thank you for solving the mystery.

 

Mike

[Ben]

It is because you have applied a Shear to your object after applying the gradient.  The shear affects the fill transform.  If you re-drag the gradient the new gradient is applied in spread space, and so the shear of the object is corrected by the new fill transform.

 

You cannot directly set the shear of a fill transform - we always correct it out when applying a new fill.  Rotation and position is implied directly when you drag the fill control line.

[A_B_C]

Thanks for that explanation …  :)

[Gear maker]

Ben, I guess I could have grabbed the shear handles sometimes when I tried for the rotation handles.  So that makes sense.  Thanks for the info.  Looks like the best way to correct it is to remake the gradient.