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Combining two or more objects creates a single object with common fill and outline attributes. You can combine rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars, spirals, graphs, or text so that they are converted to a single curve object. If you need to modify the attributes of an object that has been combined from separate objects, you can break apart the combined object. You can extract a subpath from a combined object to create two separate objects. You can also weld two or more objects to create a single object. For information about welding objects, see Welding and intersecting objects.
The two objects (left) are combined to create a single object (right). The new object has the fill and outline properties of the last object selected.
| To combine objects |  |
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Select the objects to be combined.
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Click Arrange  Combine.
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Combined text objects become larger blocks of text.
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You can also combine selected objects by clicking the Combine button
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the property bar.
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You can close open lines in a combined object by clicking Arrange Join
curves and choosing settings in the Join curves docker.
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| To break apart a combined object | |
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Select a combined object.
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Click Arrange Break curve apart.
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If you break apart a combined object that contains artistic text, the text breaks
apart into lines first, and then into words. Paragraph text breaks into separate
paragraphs.
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| To extract a subpath from a combined object | |
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Click the Shape tool
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combined object.
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Click the Extract subpath button
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After you extract the subpath, the fill and outline properties of the path are
removed from the combined object.
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