I want to erase a part of a path while maintaining the stroke’s original look. My chosen stroke is the first one BELOW [Uniform]. I’m new and just a week in at illustrator. This is my very first logo design. I haven’t added the missing parts from the sketch though but it can wait. As … Read more
I created dozens and dozens of odd shapes in Adobe Illustrator by drawing lots of overlapping rectangles. Then I did Select All, and used Pathfinder->Unite to turn them into polygons. Now I have a bunch of polygons, true, but as a side-effect, they were combined into one single object. Is there a way to either … Read more
I’m making this icon with a base vector and white strokes with variable profiles (right image) and I wanted to unify them as a single object, so I expanded the strokes and used Pathfinder’s difference (left image) They appear identical, and they should, I guess… But when I zoom out, the one I used pathfinding … Read more
I explain the situation : I have objects in background and circles in front. I would like to select all objects in background that are contained in those circles area. The pathfinder will not work, because I need to select the complete objects and not just the anchor points contained in circles area. As in … Read more
Warning: I am not an expert with Adobe Illustrator I have done an illustration, using Adobe Illustrator, of some hair and a beard using only brushstrokes. I want to copy-and-paste this illustration into a Sketch file. However, there are so many brush strokes (paths?) that it takes some time to copy-and-paste the illustration between documents. … Read more
I’m a little bit confused about this situation. As you can see in the image below, I a have two differnt paths and I would like to make that portion of the arc coincident. In the second image it possible to see that the problem isn’t visible outside outline mode, but when I insert the … Read more
I constantly use the pathfinder tool and I began to wonder, is there any shortcut for this? specially for the “add shapes” function. Answer Illustrator does not have a default shortcut for a specific Pathfinder function. Illustrator only has a shortcut to open the Pathfinder Window. A workaround would be to a create an action … Read more
I have two shapes as seen below I want to be able to trim the rectangle so that it doesn’t flow into the inside of the circle. When I use Pathfinder’s trim option it does not trim correctly as seen below: I want the rectangle to wrap cleanly around the edge of the circle, but … Read more
Learning vector illustration I am having issues with the Pathfinder. I am working on making an Alpaca out of basic shapes. For the face, I use ellipses: darker ellipse in the back, brighter ellipses in the front to shape our the head. I copy-pasted the darker ellipse in front of the other one, selected it … Read more
Illustrator offers many different ways to do the same thing, right? I guess at some point it just comes down to personal preference. When it comes to Pathfinder vs Shape Builder tool, why (other than personal preference) would someone use the Pathfinder tool? Are there things that the shape builder tool simply can’t do? Answer … Read more
