Why is my "Draw Inside" disabled?

[senjaez49486447]

Just like shown in the image above, why is this turned off and what can I do to use it?

[Ton Frederiks]

Maybe because you have an object with a clipping mask selected?

[Barb Binder]

Or you don't have an object selected. Showing the full screen would give us context.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

Or you have a Group selected. 

It could be any of these ideas! 

Select one path and try again. Does it work now? 

Jane

[denni2579]

Thank you... I had this same problem and it was because after using the shape builder tool my new shapes were grouped. Ungrouping them enabled the draw in front feature again.

[jane-e]

Hi Denhamp,

I'm glad the group / ungroup solution worked for you!

[jane-e]

Oh, but I did just find something that I think is truly odd. I was about to say it might be a line, because how can you draw inside a line? It turns out that you can. But you can't see it in Preview. Because it is a line, after all.

Here is my illustration in GPU Preview:

Here is the same illustration in Outline View:

And one more time, here it is in Isolation mode: