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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
shows a hollow eye icon You can convert a tem-
for non-template layers. plate layer to outlines
by Command/Control-
clicking the template
layer icon.

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

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

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