: How to join strokes to be one continuous line in illustrator? Attached is an image of some icons I drew using the line tool on illustrator, some of these are overlapping on top of each other

@Yeniel278

Yes and no. You can not make it one strokable object, no. Instead you can group it which makes it one, a bit depending on how you view the world.

Note that Adobe has misnamed the layer panel, it should be called objects panel as only a very small subset of what you see is a layer, maybe one in a hundred or thousand on average.

There is really no such thing as one object in a vector drawing. Even the simplest of things have many subobjects. The simplest stroked path consists of 4 points, a transformation and color/fill info. So at minimum your one object has 2*4 + 6 + 2* 1-4 subelements. The system allows you to compose more complex objects by using many objects. Simply if you want to hide complexity you just group or symbolize the collection.

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@Cugini998

If you want to connect to two endpoints of lines, select the endpoints with direct selection arrow (white arrow) and click connect points icon in Control/ context tool bar. It looks like two points connected by a dotted quarter circle.

If you want all of the lines treated as one object you can use compound path / live paint group or layer group. Google these to find out their differences.

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