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Hi, sorry if this is a common thing, but I can't find it. I am just learning to use the program, and I am trying to draw something that has several overlapping shapes. I want to hide the edges of the parts that are "behind" other parts, but when I do that and preview or render, the hidden edges show up as a white line across my image, so they still show up, just white instead of black. Am i missing something?

Thanks

Welcome to the forums.

Yep, this happens a lot, and the answer is in a thread (or two) on this forum. Search for the complete details, but in general you will need to recreate your shapes and make sure the one with the hidden edge is created first (or is it last? Even I get confused by this).

Or you can just not use a compound shape but instead create overlapping, separate shapes. In that case you can send the hidden edge shape to the very top of the stack (you may need to also send the other shapes to the back). This is what I've ended up doing (so, for example, with an arm and a sleeve instead of making a compound shape to hide the edge of the wrist I simply create an arm shape, and a sleeve shape, and put one on top of the other).

Thanks, that helped I got it figured out now!

Search the forum using 'little white lines'. This should lead you to the solutions.

To summarize, hiding edges where many shapes share the same edge has a small bug. The highest shape on that edge will show that little bit (the white lines) of the next highest shape. Basically the trick is to have the two adjacent shapes in the shape order stack not meet at the same side of the edge.