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Welding and intersecting objects
You can create irregular shapes by welding and intersecting objects. You can weld or intersect almost any object, including clones, objects on
different layers, and single objects with intersecting lines. However, you cannot weld or intersect paragraph text, dimension lines, or masters
of clones.
You can weld objects to create one object with a single outline. The new object uses the welded objects’ perimeter as its outline and adopts
the fill and outline properties of the target object. All intersecting lines disappear.
You can weld objects regardless of whether they overlap each other. If you weld objects that do not overlap, they form a weld group that
acts as a single object. In both cases, the welded object takes on the fill and outline attributes of the target object.
You can weld single objects with intersecting lines so that the object breaks into several subpaths, but its appearance remains the same.
Intersecting creates an object from the area where two or more objects overlap. The shape of this new object can be simple or complex,
depending on the shapes you intersect. The new object’s fill and outline attributes depend on the object you define as the target object.
To weld an object
1 Select the source object or objects.
2
Click Object Shaping Weld.
3 In the Shaping docker, click Indicate target.
4 Click the object to weld.
If you want to delete objects during welding, enable the Delete selected object or Delete target object check box.
To intersect an object
1 Select the source object or objects.
2
Click Object Shaping Intersect.
3 In the Shaping docker, click Indicate target.
4 Click the object to intersect with.
If you want to delete objects, enable the Delete selected object or Delete target object check box.
To intersect multiple objects, marquee select the source objects.
Creating new objects from boundaries
You can draw a boundary around the outer or inner edges of complex shapes to create a new closed curve object with the current properties
(line weight, fill color, and so on).
During this process, if you specify a point outside the selected objects, an outline is wrapped around the outside edge. If you specify a point
on the inside of selected objects, an outline is drawn around the inner edges. If the objects do not overlap, each object is outlined separately.
Error messages appear if you click directly on a line or if there is not sufficient space to create the boundary.
Boundaries cannot be drawn around text, bitmaps, or open line endings.