Timeline for Apply clipping mask on strokes
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| Sep 10, 2020 at 4:59 | comment | added | joojaa | @Kyle that wont work because the lasercutter will just ignore the clipping mask and cut the entire line. | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 4:58 | comment | added | joojaa | @MikeDSutton illustrator works on the assumptioon that you want to create images. So it prioritizes fills, not strokes. So illustrator would expand the strokes in the process to keep the ends conforming to the clip. It does not occour to many graphic designers that you could pioritize lines. Illustrator just isnt geared to this usecase because its not a what you see is what you get function. | |
| Sep 10, 2020 at 2:59 | comment | added | Kyle | This is the best you can do for your lasercut project needing only strokes. You are stuck with the 3 stroke endcap options. Your clipping mask contours the stroke ends very nicely to the mask shape. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 23:29 | comment | added | Scott | Pathfinder simply doesn't do well with stroked paths. It never has. Adobe hasn't updated it in some years, if ever actually. I think the panel operations are all the same as it was when it was introduced. They simply reversed the "expand" aspect and that button operation around CS5, that's all. Ido not think you'll find a "one click" solution. There's often no substitute for craftsmanship. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 23:23 | comment | added | Mike D Sutton | Thanks for that, this solution works although it's a little fiddly especially for more complex clipping paths. It just seems crazy that this isn't something that the Pathfinder feature can automate, since computationally clipping shapes is far more complex than lines. | |
| Sep 9, 2020 at 23:17 | history | edited | Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2020 at 22:59 | history | answered | Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |