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Clean Trim of Open Path with a Closed Path
I have looked on line an in the cow, and either I’m just not using the correct terms, or similar issues come up, but aren’t the problem I’m trying to solve. I’m more of a PS guy and delve into Illustrator as needed, so I’m sure I am missing something basic. For the record, I have tried the Shape Builder tool (didn’t work – maybe only with closed path objects?), the eraser tool (it trims the line, but not to the shape of the circle, and all of the Pathfinder options (with the line both in the back and in the front). A picture is worth a thousand words, but I want a line with a stroke to cleanly be trimmed by another object (in this case a circle, both with a stroke and without a stroke). I created the bottom goals by adding another circle with no fill and a white stroke to hide the line segment, but that seems like a hack.
Thank you,
Pauley