Illustrator rounded corner problem

[jake_lee]

Hey guys!

Got a bit of a weird problem with rounded corners in Illustrator (CS3 if it makes any difference). Basically I'm designing some business cards and I've got a number of rounded squares spreading out from each other and they all need to be running parallel with each other. However no matter how i try drawing them the actual corners never line up.

Please see my attached .jpg to see what i'm talking about!

Thanks loads

Jake

[Toon]

You need to change the radius of the corners as you enlarge the shapes.

[jake_lee]

That worked a treat! Thanks loads for the help Toon. I'm such a numpty. I thought the corner radius would automatically increase as i scaled up the rounded square, but alas this was not the case!

If anyone else has this problem the way i sorted it was by drawing a number of normal squares and made them bigger by 5px each time and made sure all their center points lined up. I then used the Rounded Corner Effect (Effect>Stylize>Rounded Corners) to individually give each square it's own unique radius.

Fixed solution attached

[Arkady]

Although you have now solved your initial problem, I still find the fact that the curves are not tangential, somewhat visually disturbing.

[jake_lee]

Well the idea is they're meant to be a bit kind of retro. The colours are also meant to represent what we do web (RGB) and print (CMYK).

[zumojuice]

Would drawing one shape and then duplicating it with an offset path not do similar?