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- mg33
I am feeling stupid right now. Here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a series of evenly spaced horizontal lines.
I have a circle.
The lines are above the circle.
I want to "subtract" or whatever it's called the lines from the circle, so that when complete, I have only the circle, but now it's circular shape is only consisting of where those lines where. Make sense? I've done this before but it's just a huge blank right now.Thanks!
- detritus0
group lines.
pathfinder > crop
?
- detritus0
You can use the outline tool instead of crop, in the above, then Direct Selection tool the end points from the bits you don't want... delete, then choose the opposing side and delete again.
- detritus0
oh. when using pathfinder—
the object of your ‘pathfind’ should be on the bottom.
- doesnotexist0
push the turbo button
- PonyBoy0
^haha
I'm not sure I follow, mg33... are you trying to achieve this?
- Jacque0
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
- mg330
OK, I got close with the circle above the solid lines (shape, not stroked), Pathfinder>subtract. I got the circle to look like the example above, but it still had the grouped lines associated with it.
- PonyBoy0
takes a few steps...
1. set up your lines just as you want them and make sure they're UNGROUPED... if you don't UNGROUP them first... you can't 'expand' the results of the pathfinder
2. select only the lines - you need to 'unite' them first. To do this, once the lines are selected, click the 'unite' icon in the pathfinder... THEN... with those lines still selected... hold the 'alt' key and click the 'expand' button in the pathfinder - the lines are now considered one object and you can interact with the circle now...
3. place the circle right over the lines exactly as you want it... then select the circle. With both objects selected, click the 'Intersect' icon in the pathfinder... ... that should be it :)
- mg330
thanks. I think I'm OK now actually. I needed to paste the circular shape into Photoshop in the end anyways, and that gave me just the solid shape, which is what I needed. Might give your method a try PonyBoy as well if I need to further edit it in Illustrator.
Stay golden!
- Sandman_19820
I know you've already sussed it but I think the simplest way would have been this...
Group the Lines > Position Circle on top > 'cmd + 7'.
- monNom0
^ or drag your lines to the swatches palette and create a stripe pattern swatch.