Keep the following guidelines in mind as you work with start/end shapes:

•Start and end shapes are sized in proportion to the stroke weight. However, adding a start or end shape does not change the length of the path.

•Start and end shapes automatically rotate to match the angle of an endpoint’s direction line.

•To add or modify the available start and end shapes, see Configure start/end shapes.

Start and end shapes appear at endpoints of paths only; they won’t appear on individual dashes of a dashed stroke.

If you apply start and end shapes to a compound path that includes open subpaths, each open subpath will use the same start and end shapes.

Sample start and end shapes