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Explode Joint Paths to Multiple Single Lines

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
May 20, 2021
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Hello,

I want only the outline lines of these shapes and want to remove all of the internal lines for diagrammatic purposes. However all of the lines are continous paths. Is there a way to explode all of the lines so that I can delete the internal ones? I've been using the scissor tool and doing this manually for each house type but its very time consuming.

Thank you in advance!!

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Another way would be with the ShapeBuilder.

Select All, pick up the ShapeBuilder tool

Hold down Alt and hover over unwanted segments, then click to delete

EXAMPLE: Eliminating interior lines of overlapping rectangles . . .

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Try if this works.

Select your objects.

Choose Select > Object > Direction Handles.

Cut the result.

Delete the remaining anchor points.

Edit > Object > Paste in Place.

You should be able to select the inner lines and delete them.

You may want to select and join the contour lines.