There are drawbacks though and it can make future editing more difficult (as Scott notes). So in regards to Illustrator's group ability, while the individual objects inside the group maintain their own separate appearance (their own strokes and fills), you can apply additional effects (like additional strokes and fills) on top of them by applying these strokes and fills to the "grouped" object.Įdit: See Scott's answer for other ways to create a single vector art object. For instance Adobe Illustrator supports layers (more for Z-index manipulation and file organization), groups (where many objects can be grouped and manipulated together - the most useful in regards to your question), and Symbols (which creates an object that if you change the source symbol and all symbols made from that symbol will get updated with the changes). Customize the tools Fidelity option to modify the number of anchor points added to the path as you use the tool. If youre working with shorter paths, the pencil tool might be closing the path by default. Make sure the Edit selected paths option is activated: Note: You can also change the close path threshold based on path length in this menu. Double-click the Smooth tool to open the Smooth Tool Options dialog box. Double-click the Pencil Tool in the toolbar to open the Pencil Tool Options menu.
Drag over the path multiple times to smooth the edges and curves.
That being said, many vector art programs have a way of "grouping" objects so that they can be moved or manipulated as one item. Select the path using the Selection tool. If you merged all objects into one single object, the vector artwork program doesn't have a way of turning all the fills and strokes of the individual objects into a "combined" fill or stroke attribute for the final merged object. This is because the way vector artwork programs work, everything is an object and these objects have fill and stroke attributes.
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