Richard,

Thanks, yes I had a suspicion he'd already done something - that might be what gets rid of the white area.  I've tried this with my pen tool on the same layer as the pic and on it's own layer. (easier to get rid of the pic later) But both times the white appeared.

However, I've figured that part out - simply select 'None' for the fill.  That's located under 'Appearance/Path' for 'path' you get stroke and fill, if you click on the box for fill - you get a selection of colours, one of which is 'none'.

Aha, that 'Window' - oh yes, that's made a difference, thanks.

Ha ha ha, lol!  The tools pane you see is the one for the tut, mine looked different, in order to follow his tut as accurately as I could I just used the view of his workspace to get the pic of the lightbulb - his tools pane came with it.  I just didn't think about it.

However, my fill now looks the same as his - 'none'.

"What the outline stroke command does is turn the line, with a stroke applied, to a path running around the edges of the stroke, filled with the original stroke's colour - presumably so that when you take that into C4D and lathe it the result will be a double-sided bulb, rather than a skin around a bulb-shaped void. Visually, nothing should change, but the stroke colour should be set to none (the black box at the bottom of the toolbox in your image) and the fill colour to black (the box with a line across it, behind the stroke colour in your image)."

R...right... I think.  So it should actually be the opposite of what it is now.....? i.e. fill has colour, line has none, okay.  Will do.

Okay...

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