Difficulties making a clipping mask
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I want to make the red clip inside the black shape. I have grouped the black parts and also used the combine boolean
I tried Arrange- Inside Last, and I tried dragging the sublayer under the top layer... what am I missing?
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@Boldline Are the black shapes combined into one and also grouped?
Anyway, pasting the red pattern object inside one shape should work (Edit > Paste Inside).
If however you try to paste an object inside a group of objects, it will just become part of that group, and will not be masked inside those shapes in the group. It's a different behavior.
So if the black objects are grouped…
- ungroup them,
- combine them into one shape with Union, then…
- move the red pattern over the shape,
- cut it,
- select the black shape and…
- use Paste Inside.
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@Boldline There are two ways to do this.
One way: as @b77 said, ungroup all black shapes and them combine with Union to create a single clipping shape. Then paste inside, or drag&drop in the layers panel will do the trick.
The other way: if you want to keep all the black part editable, leave it as a single group.
- select the black group and select Object -> Object Options and given a name for the group, and then click on Role and select the Shape role and confirm with OK.
- now we have a shape style that we can use for clipping the other group. And the shape is obtained ynamically by combined the shapes from the black group.
- select the red group and in the context panel Shape drop down select the shape name given to the black group.
- this selects the shape style as the clipping shape of the red group.
BTW: these above steps are very VS specific, I send a basic example by email.
