I'm trying to make a gear for example. I want it to have a hollow center, and have a metallic sheen. Neither linear nor radial gradient fills will give me the effect I'm looking for. I have to create a circle, fill the stroke with the gradient, increase the stroke size, and outline stroke. But I can't subtract a shape from the circle, so I have to create the gear as a separate object and make it a clipping mask for the underlying circle.
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I'm trying to make a gear for example. I want it to have a hollow center, and have a metallic sheen. Neither linear nor radial gradient fills will give me the effect I'm looking for. I have to create a circle, fill the stroke with the gradient, increase the stroke size, and outline stroke. But I can't subtract a shape from the circle, so I have to create the gear as a separate object and make it a clipping mask for the underlying circle.