As promised a rough manual trace of the Jpeg. Started with circles on one side only and using the Pathfinder pallete combined all circles into one shape. Then drew the circles which formed part of the maze, then drew the connecting lines and then made those lines to a shape by using Object-Path-Offset path. Then Back onto the Pathfinder abd combined the circles and the connecting lines. After doing that I used the Pathfinder again to combine the centre circle shape and the rest into one half of the drawing. Copied and pasted a duplicate then with the transform tool reflected the other side and again with the Pathfinder combined the 2 halves into one.
There is a mistake on the top circle on each side the line which I though was far enough in was not but it could tidied up fairly easily. If I was doing this drawing again and not rushing it I would change the default settings on the Offset path as it made too many nodes and some of the lines are poor. I have to restate that this is only a very rough drawing for you to look at
This is a much better approach. After exporting the
outlines, I was rewarded with two sets of lines atop one another, even though in a single layer.
Particularly nasty to remove as the overlapping lines as they had differing termination points.
Next time, I'll follow your example and draw as you have exampled.
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