If that is not your situation, you will need to draw a separate shape and fill it with the desired color. Or draw lines, so that Live Paint can help you.

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freshx7004799Author

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how do i add a fill or use a color bucket to fill in the space between these two black lines?

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Monika Gause

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What is this?

A clipping mask?

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freshx7004799Author

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so hat can i do to make this work?

Monika Gause

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Don't understand what you want to create, because screenshots are too small. But likely Live Paint might help

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freshx7004799Author

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Thank you, that worked!

got another small issue but i think you can easy solve this too,

i can't merge nor join these 2 paths, the straight middle line, and the border lines. I would like both of them to be a single path. Ive tried the join tool, but it removes the other path which i actually need.

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I need to merge these so that these consist with my outline border which im drawing inside in, and later to fill it with color.

Monika Gause

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You cannot create Y-connections (of 3 path segements)

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freshx7004799Author

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how do i use the pathfinder for this? Also when I use "expand" and select "fill" it stays the same

maxwithdax

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This is one way to do it. It is how I would approach it. Video posted below if you need something visual.

1. Select your stroke

2. Object>Expand>Check fill and stroke. Click okay

3. Select your orange box and make a copy (ctrl/cmd+C) of your orange box (because you will need this later to paste it back in after you use pathfinder)

4. With your orange box selected, Object>Arrange>Bring to front.

5. Now select both the black filled object and your orange box.

6. Effect>Pathfinder>Intersect. Your orange box will disappear. (But remember we copied it before we started)

7. Click on the new shape and change the color back to black (in the video I do this later but it would be easier to do it now)

8. Now Edit> Paste in Back (ctrl/cmd+B) to paste your orange box back in.

Now you should have your orange box behind your perfectly trimmed black line. Repeat these steps for all your elements.

Pathfinder - Intersect - YouTube

Hope that helps

As always, there is more than one way to peel an orange. This is just one.

- Dax

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I zoomed in this super close and this is what i see

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How do I make my path stroke be correctly aligned with the orange border?

maxwithdax

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This has to do with the angle of that line. You could fix this if you went a different way about doing it by expanding all your lines to fills and then using pathfinder. to trim your paths. But you would want to do this last as the lines themselves would no longer be editable. But your ends would match perfectly.

maxwithdax

Community Expert

Pathfinder is going to want to fill in (connect) your open paths. No matter what mode you use it will make solid objects out of your paths.

Like meganchi said, you will want to use the Direct Select tool to click on the outline to set the stroke properties, otherwise you are selecting the "clip group" and not just the orange box. Same thing if you use the Shaper tool except that the group is called the "shaper group."

-Dax

meganchiCorrect answer

Brainiac

Use your direct select tool and select the black outline of the shape that you want removed, and then change the stroke color to none.

Peter Villevoye

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Judging by the screenshots, you're probably removing the clipping path as a whole, in stead of setting the line attribute to None. Try selecting the clipping path by double-clicking through to its isolated mode, and set its line to None. Watch that top bar in your screen ! Double-click outside of the drawing (or hit escape key) to leave this Isolation mode and view the design properly again.