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Explore Artwork Outlines
As you develop complex artwork, it can be helpful to view the basic artwork structure
without applied fill and stroke attributes. Illustrator’s Outline mode makes this possible.

1. With icons.ai open, deselect everything in the file.

2. Choose View>Outline.
Regardless of the defined stroke weight, lines are still just lines. Outline mode shows Note:
you a wireframe of your artwork; fill and stroke attributes are not visible.
By default, objects on
template layers remain
In Outline viewing visible in outline mode.
mode, the Layers panel You can convert a tem-
shows a hollow eye icon plate layer to outlines
for non-template layers.
by Command/Control-
clicking the template
layer icon.

In Outline mode,
you can’t see the
objects’ fill or
stroke attributes.

3. Choose the Join tool in the Tools panel (nested Note:
under the Shaper tool). You can also select open
The Join tool is an easy way to connect open line segments. endpoints and choose
Object>Path>Join.
4. Click and drag with the Join tool to paint an area over the point where the If the selected points
figure’s elbow meets. overlap, as in this exer-
Because these lines have rounded caps, outline mode makes it easier to see the actual cise, the two points are
ends of the lines. simply combined into a
single corner endpoint.
If the selected end-
Paint over the points do not overlap,
open endpoints this command creates
to join them.
a straight, connecting
segment between the
5. Choose the Selection tool in the Tools panel, and click either of the arm points.
segments to select them.
You can now see the bounding box of the
selected object — both angled lines, which Joining the endpoints
have been joined into a single Path object combines the two separate
(as you can see in the Control panel). After lines into a single path
joining the endpoints of the two lines, they with multiple segments.
no longer function independently.

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