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This series of concentric ovals were all ungrouped, all given a black fill and no outlines, Compound Paths released. I wanted to create alternating black and clear shapes like a target. I selected all of the shapes and clicked Command+8 to Make Compound. Only the first inner ring turned clear as seen in the screen grab.
I do not fully understand when this works this way, while others do what I expected. I know I can use the shape builder to knock out the desired rings.
What's going on?
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MJackson
Monika,
This is THE answer I was looking for. Even-Odd was unchecked.
Thanks!
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mjackson,
Just select pairs to form the rings and use Cmd+8 on each pair, first the two outer most ones, then the next sets, ending with the middle ellipse alone.
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With all selected, you can click Exclude in the Pathfinder Panel.
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Open the Attributes panel.
Show options via the menu
In the right 2 buttons click on Even-Odd
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Monika,
This is THE answer I was looking for. Even-Odd was unchecked.
Thanks!
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You're welcome.
Non-Zero will work as well, but you would need to change direction of at least some of the paths.
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Which is what happens if you click Exclude, no need to create a compound path first.