Sometimes, one wants to have elements arranged / layered so that one passes “under” one and through an opening:
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The solution here is to divide things and do multiple Boolean operations to make things come out properly.
Begin by selecting the “9” and duplicating it (command/control c):
Repeat for the lightning bolt, and drag both into register with the originals (snap to node will help to line things up) and then select the lightning bolt duplicate, and the duplicate 9 (the latter will have a dashed highlight) and do Boolean Subtraction:
resulting in:
Deselect the highlighted part which you wish to keep (shift click) and delete the extra parts)
Next, we need to notch the lightning bolt at the top — to do that, we’ll need a shape with the upper right edge of the counter of the 9.
Select the counter of the 9 and duplicate it and drag it back into registration with the original.
Draw a shape which encompasses the part of the lightning bolt which we wish to remove, select it and shift-click on the counter of the 9 and do a Boolean subtraction to notch it first:
resulting in:
select a copy of the lightning bolt which is in register with the original and shift click on the just made shape:
To arrive at:
Make one more duplicate of the lightning bolt, click on the counter of the 9 and shift-click on the duplicate lightning bolt and do a Boolean subtraction:
resulting in:
Draw another shape to notch the top right of the lightning bolt and Boolean subtract it from the lightning bolt:
Draw another shape and Boolean subtract the counter from it again:
subtract the unioned shape from the notched lightning bolt:
resulting in:
Duplicate the notched lightning bolt and drag it into alignment with the original.
Select the outside of the 9 and the notched lightning bolt and Boolean subtract:
resulting in the desired:
which has the desired overlapping appearance and affords the option of pocketing the lightning bolt separately from the 9
And the end result is:
This could be done a bit more efficiently by beginning with sub-dividing the lightning bolt — doing this is left as an exercise for the reader.
An SVG is available at:
Unfortunately it is composed using SVG features (arrays) which Carbide Create doesn’t parse. The solution is to open it in Inkscape, save out as a PDF, then reopen and resave.
Then it’s just a matter of deleting what isn’t needed and Boolean unioning the stars to fix them and changing the red stripes from being an overlaid background, and the stripes adjacent to the union from being overlaid by it:
There are a number of military logos available at:
https://elements.carbide3d.com/category/us_armed_forces/
A few of them have alternate versions available, for example:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Seal_of_the_United_States_Marine_Corps.svg
and there are a few which aren’t included in the above:
