Need help with Fill

Hi

I drew a wagon wheel and I'm trying to fill it with solid black but every time I try, it fills the wrong thing. I'm trying to fill what would be the pie pieces and the inner circle, but it keeps wanting to fill everything or just the spokes. I can send the file if someone wants to take a look at it.

Thank!

  • You can attach the cdr file in your post (second tab "Options")

    If you are using Smart Fill tool, make sure the nodes of the spokes are overlapping the circles.

    • I tried attaching the file but it's too big and when I tried  to compress it (.rar) it didn't change the size at all

      • Does the file consist of vector only or bitmaps as well?

        Do not embed the color profile and it shall reduce the file size.

        If it's still too big, you can upload them to a file hosting site and provide the link.

        • i'm not 100% sure about those questions so here's a link.

          https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_f74JMee5cKdG44WXJfUTZSajQ

          • If you open the object manager, you will see there are 7 ellipses, even though the design only needs four of them. The duplicates are confusing the smart fill tool.

            There are also two items labelled "connector". These do not seem to be causing a problem, but as far as I can see, they perform no useful purpose. So, probably sensible to delete them too.

            I deleted the circled objects all and was then able to perform smart fill as expected.

             

            • That did it, thanks!