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Cutting Out Object Where Shapes Intersect

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March 23, 2021
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I am having trouble deleting the area of the white circle where it overlaps the black. I have been able to do it a few time accidentally but I cannot figure out to do it purposefully. I have tried slice, knife, divide, intersect, exclude and none seem to be working when I select all 3 shapes or 2. Please help been trying to figure this out for hours

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Correct answer Jacob Bugge

Emma,

What Ton said, but you need to make sure that the black path is also selected/selectable.

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Emma,

What Ton said, but you need to make sure that the black path is also selected/selectable.

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Thanks so much that did the trick!

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For my part you are welcome, Emma.

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You could try the Shape Builder tool in erase mode (with the Alt key depressed).

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/user-guide.html/illustrator/using/creating-shapes-shape-builder-tool.ug.html

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Thank you! That worked! Did not realize this was a thing. Very new to illustrator.

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Good to hear that helped.

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