There is a setting to force the stroke to scale as the object size changes, but the way I deal with them is convert the strokes or outlines to objects.ĭraw's break apart is more similar to Illustrator's Expand and maybe Expand Appearance, though mostly just Expand.
This means if you shrink a design the stroke will become comparatively huge. Being aware that they keep their stroke size, (often set in points,) as you scale is important. Like others have said, you need to exercises some awareness as to what are strokes or outlines and what are not. Intersect and trim applied to an overlapping solid filled rectangle can often give you areas you are trying to fill. I have found that "reversing the path" of such an object will often make it behave as expected. Another thing to look out for with the shaping tools is that sometimes you get a object that just doesn't seem to obey the shape tool rules. This tool will outline the area making a new shape out of the exterior of the overall pattern. In addition to weld, the is a tool in the Shape menu called Boundary. On objects that have become separated the Weld tool will make them back into one. Some operations result in a new group of objects that need to be ungrouped, (like breaking apart contours.) In some cases simply ungrouping the objects might be all you need. Grouped objects are going to fill as one single object.
If "break apart" has an opposite, and I am not sure it does, it might be Combine or Weld.Īlways check what objects are groups of objects and not. As another person noted, break apart is NOT the opposite of group. Some times multiple break apart's are needed. This is sometimes easier than breaking apart a curve and dealing with the resulting objects.īreaking apart objects will in many instances give you sub objects you wish to fill. It can fill a region creating a new object. One tool you maybe over looking is the smart fill tool.
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