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- In this movie, we'll join
our independent line segments

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to create filled path outlines.

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Notice, if I go ahead and zoom
in right here, for example,

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that I've got a little clip

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in the corner of my
right-hand smoke stack.

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That's because these two lines right here

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represent what are known
as independent paths

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inside of Illustrator.

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In other words, this
line segment right here

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does not continue into this one.

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What we need to do in
order to continue them

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and end up with a nice, sharp corner

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is join the paths.

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So I'm going to press ctrl + 0

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or cmd + 0 on the Mac

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in order to center my zoom.

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Then I'll press the "v" key to
switch to my Black Arrow Tool

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and I'll partially marquee
all three of the line segments

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that are associated with
the right-hand smoke stack.

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Now, I'll go up to the Object menu,

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choose Path and choose Join.

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Or, you have this keyboard
shortcut of ctrl + j

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or cmd + j on the Mac

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which I will be using
to join the other paths.

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All right, so go ahead
and choose the command

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and notice, now, you end up
with a nice, sharp corner

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and that's because these
three line segments

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have now been fused into a
single continuous path outline.

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And to confirm that's the case,

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I'll press the "a" key to
switch to my White Arrow Tool

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and I'll select this anchor
point by clicking on it

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and then I'll drag it.

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Notice that that stretches both

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of these neighboring segments.

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That's because what was
formerly two anchor points,

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overlapping each other,

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has been joined into one.

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All right, I'll go
ahead and press ctrl + z

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or cmd + z on the Mac to undo that move

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and I'll press the "v" key

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to switch back to the Black Arrow Tool

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and I'll click on that path
to select the whole thing.

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Now, what I want to do is close the path

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so that I have one continuous path outline

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that returns back on itself.

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In other words, what I need to do

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is connect these two so-called endpoints

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so that we have one
more segment down below.

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And you do that in the same
way we join the line segments,

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by going up to the Object
menu, choosing Path

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and then choosing Join

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or, again, you can press ctrl + j

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or cmd + j on the Mac

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and that will go ahead
and join those endpoints

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with a straight segment.

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Now, we want to reverse
the fill and the stroke.

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In other words, we want to fill
this path outline with black

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and give it no stroke,

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just get rid of the black outline

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that surrounds that rectangle.

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You can do that by going down
to the bottom of the toolbox

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which I can't see.

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So I'm going to go ahead and
click in this double arrow icon

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to switch back to the
double column toolbox

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and I'm going to move this guy,

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this floating toolbar out of the way.

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Then notice down here, we can see the fill

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which is set to none

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and we can see the stroke which is black.

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In order to swap those two attributes,

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you click on this double arrow

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which represents the swap icon.

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It has a keyboard shortcut of shift + x.

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I want you to remember that one as well.

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Notice, as soon as I click on it,

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I swap the stroke and fill

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and I end up with this black smoke stack.

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All right, now let's
repeat those operations

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but using keyboard shortcuts

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for the other smoke stack and the factory.

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So I'll go ahead and partially marquee

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the three line segments
associated with this smoke stack

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and I'll press ctrl + j,

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or cmd + j in the Mac,

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in order to fuse those three
independent line segments

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into one continuous path outline.

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Then I'll close that path outline

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by pressing ctrl + j or cmd + j again.

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Now, I'll swap the fill and stroke

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by pressing shift + x.

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In other words, it's ctrl + j twice,

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that's cmd + j twice on the Mac

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followed by shift + x

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and that's all there is to it.

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All right, now I want to partially marquee

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these factory objects.

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So notice that I am making sure to fly

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underneath the smoke stack.

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I'll show you that again

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because if I were to come
up into the smoke stack

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even partially, like so,

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including this guy over here on the right,

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then I will select all of the objects

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which is not what I'm interested in doing.

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Instead, I'll go ahead and
start dragging down here,

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partially marquee all of the
independent line segments,

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do not go up into this
left-hand smoke stack

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or over into the right-hand one,

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just stay inside the
factory lines like so.

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Then press ctrl + j or cmd + j on the Mac.

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And I really want you to see this.

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I'm going to zoom in here

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and I'm going to press ctrl + z

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or cmd + z on the Mac to undo.

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Notice how we have no sharp corner here

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or down here either.

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But if I press ctrl + j
or cmd + j on the Mac,

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then we get these nice, sharp corners.

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All right, now I'll go
ahead and zoom out here

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and I'll close this path
by pressing ctrl + j

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or cmd + j on the Mac once again.

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Then I'll go ahead and
swap the fill and stroke

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by pressing shift + x, like so.

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Then I'll go ahead and
click off the path outlines

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to deselect them.

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If you want to see how things
look without the guidelines,

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then the easiest thing to do

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is to go over here to the Layers Panel

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and click on the eye in
front of the guides layer

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in order to hide it.

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Clicking on that eye makes it disappear

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and hides the layer as well.

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Now, we have an unfettered view

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of our finished path outlines.

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That's how you fuse
independent line segments

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into continuous path outlines

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using the Join command

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here inside Illustrator.