How do I get rid of these pointy corners

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April 17, 2023
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When I increase the stroke, the pointy things appear. How do I get rid of them?

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pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

An alternative - if it does not have to be pointed corners - would be rounded corners (adjustable in the Stroke Panel). The radius corresponds to half the stroke width.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

You could check out this video which schows different methods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OUwr_GFwkA

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Shiny Pinaple,

If you wish to have (moderately) pointed corners (especially fitting the overall shape/appearance), the safe(st) way is to reorganize the lines of the paths so that the outermost line form one closed path and to have the inner lines as open paths; this will reduce the corner angles to match the outer path/shape instaed of spiking out of it.

Edit: Hi Kurt, maybe real spring here at last.

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Change the miter limit in the Strokes panel.

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pedley_s

Inspiring

I know this is the correct answer but sometime in the last year I actually stumbled across how Miter works and it helps me when I understand something vs. just doing it because someone told me, so I thought I'd share it here:

Miter Join

Creates stroked lines with pointed corners. Enter a miter limit between 1 and 500. The miter limit controls when the program switches from a mitered (pointed) join to a beveled (squared-off) join. The default miter limit is 10, which means that when the length of the point reaches ten times the stroke weight, the program switches from a miter join to a bevel join. A miter limit of 1 results in a bevel join.

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