: Using Illustrator CS6 to create shape out of multiple paths I am very new to Illustrator, in fact I am only experimenting with it in an attempt to help my friend develop a logo for a new

@Hamm6457569

If it's just lines that you want to join together, make sure each line it touching or complete. select all of them, and go to Pathfinder and select crop. your lines will disappear but then just go to your weights and weight it up. you can now fill the shape. I had this issue for a while then figured this way out.

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@Odierno310

You may want to try using the Pathfinder tool, making sure only the line art you want joined together is selected (i.e make sure no placed images you're tracing over are selected). Then use the Merge option on the Pathfinder instead of the Unite option.

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@Cody3331749

You can also use the pathfinder in much the same way, I am very fond of the pathfinder tool. If you select all, and go to the pathfinder and click Unite it will combine all the paths to one, single path.

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@Turnbaugh909

Without an overall image to view, the best I can offer is....


Select all
Grab the Live Paint Bucket Tool
Click once to create a Live Paint Group
Choose a swatch color and click an area to color (like a bucket fill in Photoshop)


This will essentially create whole shapes out of the mish-mash of lines. When you're done coloring, you can click the EXPAND button on the control panel to expand the Live Paint Group and allow you to edit individual portions of the artwork.

In the future, you may want to shy away from the Line Tool in Illustrator to construct entire images. That's not really the proper tool. You should be using the Pen Tool to create shapes.

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