Anyone has a solution for this?

[othmanqw12]

Is there any method to truly merge multiple selected shape paths within a single shape layer into one unified path, ensuring that overlapping or touching anchor points are combined into single, shared points (a boolean "Unite" or "Merge" operation at the anchor point level?

[Rick Gerard · Accepted solution]

No such tool exists. The closest thing you have to that is the option to group shapes. Just move all of the paths into a single group (Shape 1 path moved to the Shape 2 group, then select the paths, right-click, and Group the paths.

[othmanqw12]

Thanks for clreaing this out and helping Rick

[thepixelsmith]

As Rick said thre is no such feature in AE. 

Also given the screen shot I'm not sure any adobe program would be able to achieve that since an anchor point (vertex) can oly ever have a single line segment enter it and a nother single line segment exit it. The way your screen shot has nodes with an achor point with 3 different segments coming off of it wouldn't work in any Adobe application that I am currently familiar with.