Masking out parts of a vector shape ?

[whitedragon101]

How do you mask out part of a vector and keep it as a vector without any rasterisation ?

I found a video that showed using the blend setting on the blend mode but that made the image section a raster.

 

The actual task I am trying to do is make this. Shape below.

I made it like this (which is wrong as it produces rasterised sections that don't remain sharp at all scales)

 

- Two rounded corner rectangles the inner one uses the erase blend mode to make a hole in the bigger one.

- A rounded corner rectangle to make the page turn part in the top right.  A rectangle rotated 45deg and the blend erase mode snips the corner off

- Text saying Zip file from the AF designer text tool

[MEB]

Hi whitedragon101,

Don't use the Erase blend mode or the shapes will be rasterised when exporting to vector formats.

You can use boolean operations or vector masks or clipping (depending on what you want to do) to create the shapes you need without rasterising anything.

For example the main document shape can be created either using a single rectangle with a large stroke width or by subtracting the smaller rectangle from the larger one (selecting both and clicking in the Subtract - Combine will also do it - icon on the main toolbar in the Geometry operations group. Similar operation can be used to "delete" part of the rotated rectangle. Here's a quick example showing how to subtract a circle from a rectangle:

 

 

If you press alt while clicking on one of the geometric operations you will perfomr a non-destrcutive boolean operation which will result in a compound object. You can expand it in the Layers panel to access the original shapes used to create it.

 

Check this Help topic to learn more about (destructive) geometric operations: Joining objects;

 And this one to lean more about non-destructive boolean operations: Compound objects.

[whitedragon101]

On 16/05/2018 at 3:20 PM, MEB said:

Hi whitedragon101,

Don't use the Erase blend mode or the shapes will be rasterised when exporting to vector formats.

You can use boolean operations or vector masks or clipping (depending on what you want to do) to create the shapes you need without rasterising anything.

For example the main document shape can be created either using a single rectangle with a large stroke width or by subtracting the smaller rectangle from the larger one (selecting both and clicking in the Subtract - Combine will also do it - icon on the main toolbar in the Geometry operations group. Similar operation can be used to "delete" part of the rotated rectangle. Here's a quick example showing how to subtract a circle from a rectangle:

 

 

If you press alt while clicking on one of the geometric operations you will perfomr a non-destrcutive boolean operation which will result in a compound object. You can expand it in the Layers panel to access the original shapes used to create it.

 

Check this Help topic to learn more about (destructive) geometric operations: Joining objects;

 And this one to lean more about non-destructive boolean operations: Compound objects.

 

Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for