Join the ends of two non-touching lines?

[Bruce Kieffer]

Can this be done in one step after selecting the two lines? I'd like to join two non-touching lines together and have VW add the third line that joins them.

[CipesDesign]

Select the lines, Command J...

[Bruce Kieffer]

Peter,

I just tried it and it works. I tried it last night and it didn't work. I did reboot VW this morning, maybe that solved the joining. I will test some more. Thanks for the help.

[Bruce Kieffer]

I found why it doesn't work... I'm trying to join more than two lines. Anyway to get that to work?

[Bruce Kieffer]

Sometimes the join function does not work on two lines. These lines where created from a "convert copy to lines" function. The error message is "Join operation could not be preformed." Not helpful at all. OK VW, you have some reason why you won't join my lines, why not help me and tell me what that reason is so I can fix it!

[CipesDesign]

You should try the Connect/Combine Tool. It has various Modes. Mess around with it a little and I'll bet you can find something that works!

[Bruce Kieffer]

Peter,

That does seem better for what I'm doing. Thanks.

[Bruce Kieffer]

Is there a way to click add click add? I have a series of lines who?s ends don't meet. The Connect/Combine tool makes me click too many times. I want to click two segments to join them, then one click to add another to the already combined segments and continue one clicking to add more segments. None of the tool modes seem to do that.

[bc]

Hey Bruce, what the heck are you drawing anyway?

[michaelk]

Bruce

With a single click on a third line, how would it know which end of the line to join to which end of the line/polygon?

mk

[VincentCuclair]

Is there a way to click add click add? I have a series of lines who?s ends don't meet. The Connect/Combine tool makes me click too many times. I want to click two segments to join them, then one click to add another to the already combined segments and continue one clicking to add more segments. None of the tool modes seem to do that.

If you hold down the Alt/Opt key you can join/trim several lines to one in one go....

[Bruce Kieffer]

Hey Bruce, what the heck are you drawing anyway?

I'm illustrating a book of outdoor projects. All need to be Illustrator final art. I'm converting my VW files, cleaning them up in VW, and then exporting to AI. All the joining is done to clean up things before going to AI.

[Bruce Kieffer]

Bruce

With a single click on a third line, how would it know which end of the line to join to which end of the line/polygon?

mk

I would want it to join the closest end. Macromedia FreeHand was great at this task. Just select a mess of lines and say join. 95% of time the results were exactly what I wanted. RIP FreeHand!

[Bruce Kieffer]

If you hold down the Alt/Opt key you can join/trim several lines to one in one go....

Final got this to work. The trick is you have to have all the lines selected first, then be in the Connect/Combine tool's first mode, and then click the first and last line. They all join!