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4. Click and drag to draw a triangle that represents the outer shape of the tent.
For some reason the Shaper tool always defaults to a light gray fill, even if you define a
different fill color before drawing.

Objects created
with the Shaper
tool are recognized
as Live Shapes.
Shaper
tool

5. Click and drag again to draw the inner triangle.

6. Click and drag again to draw two straight lines that represent the tent poles.

7. Using the Shaper tool, scribble a path that begins below both rectangles and
touches the overlapping area of the two triangles.

The areas where
you scribbled is
Scribble past knocked out.
the edges of
both triangles.

8. In the Layers panel, expand the Shaper Group sublayer.
Scribbling over an area of overlapping objects converts those objects
into a Shaper Group. All overlapping objects become part of the
group, even it they were not affected by the scribbling motion. All overlapping
shapes are included
How you scribble with the tool determines what will happen: in the Shaper Group.
• Scribble past the outer edges of the shapes to remove (knock
out) both the fill and stroke attributes of the area.
• Scribble entirely within an overlap area to knock out that area.
• Scribble from an overlap area to a non-overlap area merges the shapes where you
scribble. The resulting shape is the color of the front shape in the stacking order.
• Scribble from a non-overlap area to an overlap area to create shapes that depend
on where you start to scribble:
– Start in the back object to create a merged shape with the same color as the
back shape.
– Start in the front object to knock out the areas where you scribble.

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