Add Expand command for Intertwine objects
Unlike other special objects, like Live Paint-s, Envelopes, Blends, etc., Intertwine objects don’t have their own Expand command. It’s not very consistent.
We need this command to appear in the menu, the context menu, Properties, Control.
Repeats don’t have this one too, which is also strange: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/41138800-repeat-expand-appearance
We have to use the general Object > Expand: Object for this — but is has a dialog, which is not always nice.
A specific Expand allows to choose the order of operations for a complex objects. Take blends, for example — if you apply 'expands' in a wrong order, you risk to expand the content first, and get a wrong blend between already expanded objects.
Yes, there is another unintended workaround, — apply any effect and get it expanded on its own (https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/45845533), but this is not how it should work!
AdminEgor Chistyakov
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Rachel
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Allow the intertwine too to be expanded without making clipping masks. I like to use the intertwine tool with strokes and would love to be able to expand the whole shape -> apply the divide tool -> select same colour -> delete. So this way I can remove my strokes and have negative space. Right now when you expand an intertwined shape it makes a bunch of clipping masks that are annoying to work around. If I try using just the divide tool on the intertwined object it releases the whole thing.