Filling Imported Sketches

[ODGreen]

I have imported a Logo consisting of splines and lines, I can not for the life of me figure out how to convert it to a shape so it will fill... Can someone help me, my class does not start until the middle of February and this is driving me nuts...

OD

 

[tad1952]

Are you sure it is an Illustrator file and not a freehand eps? I've seen Illustrator open up a simple vignetted Freehand logo as a billion little lines - try opening the file in Freehand and exporting out as an Illustrator file.

 

[ODGreen]

It is a DXF file, simplified the paths then greouped them as letters but can not fill them.

 

[dimoj]

Select it all, then go to Object>Expand Appearance and then go to Object>Expand (with fills and strokes selected in the options that open).

 

[ODGreen]

With everything selected when I go to Object Expand Appearance nothing happens, then when I go to Expand it show it to have fill on the Appearance menu but is still white

 

[dimoj]

With everything selected when I go to Object Expand Appearance nothing happens

It only appears that nothing happens. (watch your wireframe preview)

Sorry, I forgot one more step at the end. With everything still selected open your Layers Palette and alt-click on 'Add to shape area'

You will now have one filled object.