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Illustrator Interlocking elements


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Berbatov

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Hey guys,

I want to interlock certain shapes. Now, there are a lot of articles and tutorials about interlocking shapes or letters, but I have troubles when i use strokes/borders that no tutorial seems to cover.

Here's my situation:
yaz4objk.jpg

I want the bar to be behind the circle in the bottom, but to be in front of it at the top. I tried to play around with the pathfinder options, but I never seem to get the result I want. Especially the border never works out right. When I cut the piece at the bottom that should be behind, I get the green border instead of the blue one for the circle in that area...

Here's the .ai file, so you don't have to draw it yourself.
View attachment example.ai

Thanks in advance
 

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You mean like this?
example-01.png
View attachment example.ai
The easiest way to achieve that is by masking. Place a copy of the circle on top of the original Ctrl-F to paste in place. Mask out a section by the top of the bar, then Ctrl 7 to mask it, this mask will pop to the front, giving the appearance of the line going through the circle. Hope that's what you wanted, and will help for future projects.
 

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Thats exactly what I was looking for. Thanks :)

Can you be a bit more precise though in terms of execution. So after copying the circle I have three layers, circle (lowest), copy (middle), and bar (top layer). What to do now? I didnt really get the masking part.

Thanks again.

Edit: Got it :)
 
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