![]() ![]() All right, I'll undo that change once again. Now this is what happens if you start dragging outside of any shape and then you zigzag inside the chimney, that will end up subtracting the chimney from the roof like so. All right, but I want to show you a few other options, so I'll press Control Z, or Command Z on the Mac, to undo that change. And so if I were to start dragging right here and zigzag up and down into the roof, then I would combine the chimney with the roof like so. Well, the first thing you want to make sure is that all of the shapes are deselected, that's very important, and then you want to draw a zigzag. All right, now let's say that I want to combine these shapes together. Of course, that's not what I want, so I'll just go ahead and press Control Z, or Command Z on a Mac to undo that change and then I'll add a chimney by drawing another rectangle like so. And notice that this shape is a live polygon as indicated by the word polygon over here on the far left side of the control panel, meaning that I can change the number of sides by dragging this widget. If that's not what you want, just go ahead and click on the triangle to select it, and then, I'll go ahead and drag this guy over here let's say as a starting position, and I'll drag the right handle over until that center point, once again, aligns with the vertical guide and then I'll release. All right, now I want to draw a big triangle for the roof and so, I'll draw this big wide guy right here, but notice as soon as I release, I end up with an equilateral triangle and that's because the shaper tool always produces triangles with three equal sides. All right, now I'll go ahead and drag this corner handle downward and I'll drag this guy and up and to the left until that center point more or less aligns with the vertical guide. However, I also want to be able to scale this shape and the simplest way to do that is to bring up the bounding box, which I can do by going to the view menu and if necessary, choosing show bounding box like so. Next, I'll go ahead and click on this shape in order to select it, so the shaper tool doubles as a selection tool inside Illustrator and then I'll drag it so that its more or less centered. ![]() And even though this gestures is a poor excuse for a rectangle, I end up with the desired shape. ![]() I'll go ahead and switch over to my blank document with a center guise, and then I'll select the shaper tool, which again, shares a flyout menu with the pencil tool, and then, I'll draw a base rectangle like so. When combining path outlines, all you have to do is make sure all the paths are deselected and then scribble over them, or if you don't want to go to that much work, just draw a Z, so you really only need to drag back and forth a matter of three times. Now as you know, drawing with the shaper tool is a matter of a handful of simple gestures. In this movie, I'll show you how to combine path outlines using the shaper tool and along the way, we'll draw this childishly simple house. ![]()
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