Intersect shapes

[LaraJ]

Hi,

I have a yellow rectangle and on top of it several circles (blue stroke, transparent fill) that are bigger than the rectangle and I'd like to only keep the part of the circles that fits into the rectangle. I tried intersecting the two using Geometry, but they both disappear. What am I missing? How can this be accomplished?

Thanks!

[Old Bruce]

Like this? I duplicated the yellow rectangle and used it to clip the grouped items.

[LaraJ]

@Old Bruce yes, that's the effect. Except that I'm trying to accomplish this in Publisher so what's left of the circles stays as vectors.

[Old Bruce]

That is all vectors. The bits left are just visible parts of the still existing entire circles.

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[LaraJ]

Cool! Thank you! You used 'Mask to Below' to do this, right?

[Old Bruce]

9 minutes ago, LaraJ said:

Cool! Thank you! You used 'Mask to Below' to do this, right?

No. I used the Layers panel and physical dragged the rectangle into position.

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, LaraJ said:

Cool! Thank you! You used 'Mask to Below' to do this, right?

 

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

No. I used the Layers panel and physical dragged the rectangle into position.

‘Mask to Below’ would work, too, but if you use clipping instead of masking then you don’t need to duplicate the rectangle.

 

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, LaraJ said:

I tried intersecting the two using Geometry, but they both disappear.

The ‘Intersect’ command leaves you with only the overlapping parts of the selected shapes.

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