13 Replies Latest reply: Nov 26, 2008 6:31 AM by (Gary_Newman) RSS

    Subtracting objects from other objects

    Michael Brown12 Community Member
      In AICS3, for ease of explanation, let's say I have a triangle partially on a square. I want to remove the part of the square covered by the triangle, but keep the whole square. I have tried everything in the Pathfinder and Shape palette, but nothing does this. It either causes one of the shapes to disappear or is says it cannot do it. I even found the hidden and cryptically named "divide objects below" command. It did not work, either. The objects in question are usually described by AI as "paths", but I don't know why it would matter. Does anyone have a simple way to remove one part of an object from another where the only thing to "disappear" is the common area? This should be easy and I hope I'm just missing something simple.
      CS3/OS10.4.11 Thanks in advance for any help.

      MGuilfoile