: Erasing part of a shape with a stroke in Illustrator I have an oval shape with a stroke and no fill. I'm trying to erase part of the shape as have something lying on top of the shape and

@Murray976

You can also use the scissors on an object that has no fill. It's a scissor icon or shortcut 'c'. Just click two points on the path and the section of the stroke between those points will be a new object that you can drag away with the selection tool 'v' or just delete.

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@Samaraweera207

Here's one way it can be done

Outline the stroke, so you can easily edit it.



Then you can create some other kind of object to be subtracted from the first shape, using Pathfinder. The button you want is on the top row, second from the left (it's called ”Minus Front“).



The result is a stroke, with your other shape punched out.



Pathfinder is pretty awesome.

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@Speyer780

Use the pen tool to add points along the stroke of the oval where
you want to delete it.
Use the white arrow to select just the part you want to remove, and
delete.
Tada!

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