Need help regarding illustrator

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May 15, 2024
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I have building floor plans in which I have several flats. I have attached screenshots it can be clearly seen that all falts have elements messed up. It takes a lot of time to individually delete elements and keep flat A on one layer. Same with other flats by keeping flat B I delete all other elements and so on for all of them.

My basic question is that it is too much time consuming process. Is there any way forward to quickly separate them?

How-to

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Muhammad,

As I (mis)understand it, for visual purposes you can:

1) Copy the Layer into 4 new copy Layers,

2) In each Layer create a path enclosing the relevant flat with (the desired parts of) the desired walls, then select everything, then Object>Clipping Mask>Make.

That will hide all the undesired falts/parts.

For changes, you can:

3) Work on the parts in the original Layer,

4) In each relevant Layer delete release the Clipping Mask, then lock the Clipping Path and delete everything else, then copy everything from the original Layer, then move the Clipping Path to the top and unlock it, then Object>Clipping Mask>Make again.

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muhammada43573007Author

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So, the solution which you suggested me might be working but I was unable to do it. I am currently working on a project and I have attached link to simple ai file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jbPxQd2fq_8gTXPvNo_EdV_jHXxIJUwq/view?usp=sharing

There are six flats from A to G in the file. My task is to separate each flat from the other and currently, how I separate the flats is explained in this video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QOnJzahI-X9CH9ukc6zCOMEsICYyR3KC/view?usp=sharing

The problem is that it is too much time consuming task and my question is is there any other way to do this quickly and effectively?

Thanks and waiting for your reply.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Muhammad,

The suggestion was meant to give a simple way to bypass the complex structure for presentation purposes. If the attempts fail, I believe there is a simple reason and cure.

Maybe you can show screenshots of how your attempts succeed/fail.

Screensots get immediately visible if you use the Insert Images button in the Reply box (looks like moon over mountains) rather than the more conspicuous attach suggestion.