Remove the overlap
Drops the piece two shapes share and keeps the rest, leaving a clean gap where they crossed.
1
Select both shapes. As with Keep overlap, the order does not matter.
2
The piece they share is the part that goes.
3
What is left belongs to one shape or the other, with a gap between them.
Every setting
1What each number in the dialog means, and where it starts.
Keep originals
Keeps the shapes you started with, and adds the result beside.
What it is
Keeps what belongs to one shape only and removes the piece they share, leaving a gap where they crossed.