AD - Can I use a shape to remove the lines/objects behind it?

[kanihoncho]

Good day  all. In the attached photo (from AD) I would like to use the selected shape (group?) to remove the stars and parts of the circle lines behind it. I want to print this on a black coffee mug and do not want the black to be printed. I want the coffee mug to show through. When done, all the white will be transparent to show the black porcelain. I have tried all the overlap, minus, add, tools and they destroy the whole design (maybe things are "invisible " and I have to go back and assign colors and strokes) Thanks.

Edited February 14, 2019 by kanihoncho
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[Alfred]

It would be easier to offer precise instructions if you could share your *.afdesign file here, but in broad terms you just need to make sure that your document is set up with a transparent background and your shapes are drawn with no fill.

By the way, is it really meant to say “process cheddar cheese” instead of “processed cheddar cheese”?

[John Rostron]

21 minutes ago, Alfred said:

By the way, is it really meant to say “process cheddar cheese” instead of “processed cheddar cheese”? 

Could it be Cheddar Cheese made by the Pressure Process?

John

[v_kyr]

Should it look then like this for the middle part?

[kanihoncho]

V_kyr EXACTLY

[v_kyr]

Since I traced your image (bitmap to vector) which gives the whole as an curve then, it's easy to perform those geometrical operations. Since I just had to place a rounded rectangle on the middle and then select that and the underlayed whole curve and perfrom a subtract then. That leaves you then with the middle part cut out, so I could place a new rounded rect with NO fill inside there.

AFAI can see you have just to exchangr the rounded rect part (remove the black fill to NO fill for your rounded middle rectangle there then). Combining all to one shape and afterwards a subtract operation with a same sized rounded rect should give you the same then. - Further if you don't have a transparent background document and instead a white background one, you can create a new same sized transparent doc and copy all layers over to that transparent background file then.

1. Try to combine/add all to just one shape
2. Draw a new rounded rect of the same size and place onto the middle, so it covers the original
3. Select both layers then and perform a geom. subtract operation
4. Add a new middle rounded rect part with the text but make the rect fill transparent, place that into the middle left over hole area