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Explode the Taos into the individual lines that can be edited separately.

Click Edit > Explode All.

The Taos is exploded.

The design will turn gray. If you click on the Taos, only the line selected will be highlighted, showing that the Taos is no longer a single object.

We will delete some of the lines of the design.

Starting with the top left corner, hold down the CTRL key and select the small vertical lines and small diagonal lines to select them.

Click the Delete button.

The lines are deleted.

Do the same with the right side and the two bottom corners.

Now we'll Offset some of the lines to change the shape of the top layer

Click on the upper left diagonal line of the outside layer.

Change the Offset direction* to minus (-) by clicking the dropdown control and selecting it.

Leave the Reveal value at .25".

Click the Offset button.

RULES:

• Enclosed objects:

  • Positive value offsets to the inside.

  • Negative value offsets to the outside.

• Arcs and Curves Greater than 180 Degrees use the same rules as for closed objects.

• For lines, imagine a line's start point to be the center of a circle.The plus offsets clockwise and minus offsets counterclockwise. 

The line is offset.

Do the same with the right side and the two bottom corners.

We will now delete the original diagonal lines we used to offset the lines.

Hold down the CTRL key and click on each of the original diagonal lines.

Click the Delete button. 

The diagonal lines are deleted. 

We will join the segments to create the new shape with the offset diagonal lines. We will do this in sections so that the new diagonal lines won't try to connect to the adjoining lines in the wrong direction.

Hold down the CTRL key and click on the small horizontal line near the lower left, the long outside left vertical line and on the small horizontal line near the top left.

Click the Join button.

The lines are joined.

Click on the background to unselect the newly connected lines.

Hold down the CTRL key and click on the small horizontal line near the bottom right, the long outside right vertical line and on the small horizontal line near the top right. 

Click the Join button.

The lines are joined.