Welding???

[gulfcoastcajun]

Okay so I am trying to design some stuff that has names in it but if I use a stroke to put an offset on it then it cuts through some of my letters, I would like for my letters to intersect like there were no breaks between each one. Can someone please tell me how to do this.  I converted to curves and ungrouped all and moved them where I wanted to and clicked add, which worked on the one I did previously but this time it is filling my l's and e's etc but somehow not my a.... the holes are being filled in.

 

[gulfcoastcajun]

This is how the letters are intersecting, there is a break in between each letter I want a continuous flow

[dutchshader]

Try layer>fillmode>alternate

[firstdefence]

5 hours ago, gulfcoastcajun said:

This is how the letters are intersecting, there is a break in between each letter I want a continuous flow

Are you talking about the stroke, do you mean like this?

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[Palatino]

5 hours ago, gulfcoastcajun said:

I converted to curves and ungrouped all and moved them where I wanted to and clicked add, which worked on the one I did previously but this time it is filling my l's and e's etc but somehow not my a.... the holes are being filled in.

[gulfcoastcajun]

FirstDefence Yes that is exactly what I am trying to do