I think Matt's suggestion of using solids is the best, if I am understanding what you are looking for. Personally, I would do this in an assembly with the background as one part and the text overlay as another. Attached is an example as a multibody part. The "broken glass" feature needs a...

What is your end goal? As matt mentioned, this might be better done working with solid body(ies) than 2D elements. Thanks everyone so far... These are laser cut lines, I am trying to get a broken glass effect with text (not broken) in it. the resulting sketch will be saved as dxf and then into inks...

I have atached a screen shot that hopefully helps.

Hi,

I have a sketch that has lots of random lines on what will be a A4 sheet, I want to place text over these lines and then trim away the ones that intersect the text, how do I do this?

Steve