How to outline a symbol

[sal shepherd]

I need a marlin for my trophies and plaques job. All I have is what the school supplied.How can I make it stand out and with thin lines. When I pull it in x3 it has blue selected boxes around it and It calls it a symbol.

[Mike Mackenzie]

you mean like this,

[sal shepherd]

Thans Mike,
How were you able to outline it? I even tried to trace it. Now all I need to do is get it not to look like a blob when I resize it. For the plaques it will be about 2 to 2 1/2" and trophy plates 1/2"

[Mike Null]

Sal

when you make a symbol go to the edit menu and you will find "edit symbol". From there you can make any changes you want to the symbol then click "finish editing".

[Michael Hunter]

To de-blobify ....

Using Mike Mackenzie's file, click on the red outline and then in Object Manager pen tab, click in the "Scale with Image" box.

[sal shepherd]

Thank You ,

Mike,Mike and Michael

That will do the trick for this job, I have never noticed the edit symbol before

[Richard Rumancik]

Symbols are useful if you have multiple copies of the same item in one file. Then if the symbol even changed, you only have to edit it one time and it gets automatically updated in all the locations that it is used. If you wish to keep it a symbol in your file that is your choice, but the other option is to convert it back to individual objects for "normal" editing. The procedure would be select -> edit -> symbol -> revert to objects. Make a copy of the symbol somewhere outside the drawing area for future reference before you "revert to objects".