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Anonymous
November 29, 2020
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How to remove (or reduce threshold) for auto closing paths when using the pencil tool?

  • November 29, 2020
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Incredibly frustrating to have Illustrator auto close paths when drawing with the pencil. How to turn this feature off?

Correct answer davidzuercher

Late to the party, but had the same problem. Glad to report, the option has been integrated:
When using the pencil, there’s a "pencil settings" button, lowest in the left toolbar where you can untick "close path automatically"

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davidzuercher
davidzuercherCorrect answer
Participant
November 2, 2024

Late to the party, but had the same problem. Glad to report, the option has been integrated:
When using the pencil, there’s a "pencil settings" button, lowest in the left toolbar where you can untick "close path automatically"

    Michael J. Hoffman
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    Michael J. HoffmanCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 11, 2021

    I see your point - when using the pencil tool, there's no option to turn off the feature, and the distance threshold is quite large. Ideally, there could be an on/off toggle as well as a threshold that could be adjusted.

     

    I recommend that you request this feature using the in-app suggestion available under App Settings > Help.

     

    I will update the subject line on this thread to add the this is related to the "Pencil" tool.

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    sadmonkeytx
    Participant
    September 11, 2021

    Thank you for posting about this! I was all excited about using Illustrator to trace images for a project, but after 5 minutes of this auto joining I got really frustrated. I will find another tracing app in the meantime while waiting for an update. Urgh.

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    harryt83959173
    Participant
    January 23, 2021

    I'm having the same problem, did you find a solution?

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 29, 2020

    Can you please elaborate what exactly you want to do?

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    Anonymous
    November 29, 2020

    Thanks for the response. When using illustrator on the iPad, I can use the pencil to draw a line, but once done drawing, Illustrator automatically joins the end of the line with the beginning of the line. I was attempting to draw on an A2 sized page, so the distance between the end and start of the line drawn was approx 1cm. I understand the usefulness of auto join, but how do I disable this to simply draw? Or reduce the auto join threshold to 1mm? Thank you!

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