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Create 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 lines. However, you can set a gap tolerance for open lines. Endpoints within the specified gap tolerance are temporarily repositioned to close the gap between objects and allow a boundary to be created.

To create a new object from a boundary

1 Select the objects for the boundary.

2 Click Object

Shaping

Boundary.

If you want the boundary object to be placed behind the current objects, enable the Place behind selected option in the Shaping docker.

To set a gap tolerance for open lines, type a value in the Gap tolerance box. If the endpoints of the lines are within the specified distance, a boundary will be created.

3 Click Indicate target.

4 Click a point outside or inside the selected objects.

If you want to delete the original objects, enable Delete selected object.