I deal with line art drawings exported from Seimens NX cad software on a daily basis. In order to select the various views on the page, I need to release a clipping mask that is added upon export. I have always done a select all, right click, select ungroup from the popup options, then right click and select release clipping mask from popup options. After updating to illustrator 28.7.1 last week, the option to release clipping masks is gone. Where did it go and how can I get it back? There have been no changes to the cad software as they are major updates and the entire company is made aware of changes and updates to the software.
Yeah, that works too, but the right click has been ingrained in my workflow for the last 12 years. It's frustrating when they take things away like that.
I had upgraded to the previous update, had issues, and went back to one I knew was working. I figured that I'm paying for updates and that surely they had things figured out by now... wrong! So far though, this is the only problem I've ran into.
/t5/illustrator-discussions/release-clipping-masks-option-gone-from-right-click-options-menu/m-p/15093722#M432711Jan 16, 2025
Jan 16, 2025
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Classic Adobe really, breaking things that aren't broken, everytime I upgrade I have to relearn the last 20 years of muscle memory with my workflow it's endlessly frustraiting. The space bar > Shift function gone aswell in favour of rotate canvas. Super annoying.
I tried replicating this behavior on my end but could not. Would you mind trying to run Illustrator under Safe Mode (Windows / macOS) and checking if it helps? Also, try disabling any plugins and share your observations.
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