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Inspiring
November 21, 2023
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Bounding box glitch when scaling clipping mask

  • November 21, 2023
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With one of the recent updates, I suddenly have an issue with clipping masks and their bounding boxes. When I select a clipping mask, the bounding box appears normal, treating the mask/frame as the extent of the artwork. but when I then scale try to scale/transform it, the bounding box suddenly extends past the frame of the clipping mask to encompass all the artwork inside the clipping mask. This is very frustrating and I haven't been able to find a solution or even a discussion on this issue. Has anyone else run into this problem?

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Correct answer David26224806zcjd
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Does this also happen with a very simple clipping mask?

 

Let's say, you draw just a couple of stroked paths and a square above and make a clipping mask out of them. Same issue occurs?

 


By @Kurt Gold



As a matter of fact, no.

Thanks for that question, as it got me to thinking maybe it's a certain element within the clipping mask (they were pretty complex mesh gradients with blending modes applied). Here's the odd part though... I work on two separate (and different) iMacs, one in the office and one remote, and both were doing the same thing, even after restarts, etc., but after your question I tried clipping each of the elements into separate masks, and voila! no more issue. Then I clip them all back together (same as before)... no more issue! Well... the curved streak's paths still appear during the scaling, but as soon as I release from scaling, it goes back to normal.

 

So... it must be a glitch that just happens in certain perfect storms, but it was solved for me by re-clipping the whole thing.

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Kurt Gold
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 21, 2023

Does this also happen with a very simple clipping mask?

 

Let's say, you draw just a couple of stroked paths and a square above and make a clipping mask out of them. Same issue occurs?

 

David26224806zcjdAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
November 28, 2023
quote

Does this also happen with a very simple clipping mask?

 

Let's say, you draw just a couple of stroked paths and a square above and make a clipping mask out of them. Same issue occurs?

 


By @Kurt Gold



As a matter of fact, no.

Thanks for that question, as it got me to thinking maybe it's a certain element within the clipping mask (they were pretty complex mesh gradients with blending modes applied). Here's the odd part though... I work on two separate (and different) iMacs, one in the office and one remote, and both were doing the same thing, even after restarts, etc., but after your question I tried clipping each of the elements into separate masks, and voila! no more issue. Then I clip them all back together (same as before)... no more issue! Well... the curved streak's paths still appear during the scaling, but as soon as I release from scaling, it goes back to normal.

 

So... it must be a glitch that just happens in certain perfect storms, but it was solved for me by re-clipping the whole thing.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 21, 2023

Exactly what are you doing step by step?

using the isolation mode?

using the "edit mask" button?

Inspiring
November 21, 2023

No isolation mode. I have the clipped art shown in my screenshot, selected with selection tool (V). When I grab a corner of the bounding box to resize OR type any size in the transform palette, suddenly all paths within the clipping mask are highlighted and the bounding box extends to the bounds of those paths. As you can see in the transform palette, the extents of the measurements change with the bounding box.