@Boldline said in Move inside Last usually reqires a second step to achieve full clipping effect:
Is there a reason why a composite group cannot be treated by VS as if it were one shape?
The problem here is that these are still "groups", can be ungrouped, can be isolated, etc. And they will (and should) act like groups for Arrange operations also.
This is the way Illustrator works - composite shapes are consider "one shape"
Composite groups act as shapes in VS also when styled and displayed, but they act as groups for editing actions.
I did not find a "Move Inside Last" command in Illustrator, but otherwise composite groups act as groups there also (except styling and rendering).
To have a "real" composite shape to act as a shape in all cases (including move inside last) you can create a composite shape (Object -> Composite Shape) instead of a group.
In this case we have an actual shape, and that can be used for clipping also.
There will be no isolation mode for this, but the individual shapes can be selected in the Layers panel or in the Shape select tool.
Also, shapes resulting from a composite group can be set up as styles (add a name and the Shape role to the composite group) and then these Shape Styles can be used as clipping shapes that are dynamically linked to the shape resulting from the composite group.
