Intersecting shapes using Pathfinder leaves residue

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April 28, 2017
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In the figure on left, the black shape represents the result intersecting the yellow circle and the gray shape. If I zoom it to 64k% (figure on the right), I see a sliver of yellow between the gray and black shapes which means that the intersect tool is ls leaving a 'residue' which it ideally should not and therefore the result is not accurate. I've tried this on both Mac and Windows systems running 2017.0.2 release of Illustrator CC but the result is the same.

Can't seem to understand the reason for this 'gap' between the two paths on intersection as is clearly visible from the outline view.

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Try to set the Precision in the Pathfinder panel Options to a very small number like 0.001 pt.

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

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Try to set the Precision in the Pathfinder panel Options to a very small number like 0.001 pt.

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Archit JAuthor

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Thanks a lot. It worked. I didn't know such an option existed. It was set to the default value of 0.028pt. I have been using Illustrator for about 2 years now but never had this issue or maybe I never noticed it. But setting the precision to 0.001 pt totally worked. My head was wrapped around this problem for 3 days, now I feel relieved.