Cannot enable Live Corners in Illustrator CC

[LouiseMiller31]

I'm excited to use the new Illustrator Live Corner Feature but for some reason using the Direct Select tool does not bring up the live corners on any shape I make. I am using Illustrator CC 64 bit on a PC runnign Windows 7. Am I missing something?

[Monika Gause]

Is the widget enabled in the View menu?

Are corner points in the path?

How's the corner widget setting in preferences?

[LouiseMiller31]

This is what I see with the direct selection tool selecting my shape .... I don't see the corner dialoge box or any of the stuff they show on the demo video...

[rcraighead]

And, as Monica asked, is the widget "on" (View>Show/Hide Corner Widget)?

Edit:

It appears the corners are not fully selected. Option click, on the object so all corners are solid.

You can control individual corners by selecting them separately or dragging accross several to select them.

[LouiseMiller31]

Not seeing the option to show / hide live corners.

[LouiseMiller31]

Option + Clicked on the object to select all corners.

[Monika Gause]

Did you update your version of Illustrator CC? It won't do that automatically.

[LouiseMiller31]

Thanks for the help Monika - I did need to update. I was confused because when i open illustrator it prompted me to watch three videos about these new features. I assumed they were already part of the product.

[Dhirendra Mohan]

Hi LouiseMiller31,

Could you please check which Ai version are you on and let us know the same? What's New dialog is shown when the update has been applied. It looks conflicting.

We would surely want to help you here.

Regards,

Dhirendra

[Dhirendra Mohan · Accepted solution]

Hi Louise,

It looks you are not on 17.1.0 and hence you do not have this feature. Your View menu snapshot shows that very clearly. Please update your Ai to 17.1.0 and let us know if you are able to work with the feature.

Thanks,

Dhirendra

[MusicMaxEbb]

I'm having this problem too.  But, I am trying to update to 17.1.0 and Adobe Cloud keeps saying that I'm up to date.  I'm unable to update. So, currently there is no way I can use this feature.

[Larry G. Schneider]

Try quitting completely the Creative Cloud desktop application. Restart your computer and then reopen the CC desktop, Will it update now?

[MusicMaxEbb]

No, it didn't. I think the problem was that I had only Illustrator CC installed and none of the other CC software installed. Once I installed Photoshop CC and Bridge CC the update for Illustrator CC shows in Creative Cloud.

[rcraighead]

Make sure Direct Selection tool is choosen (hollow arrow).

[LNakell]

This Live Corner widget feature is totally inconsistent for me. It will work on one object, but then not on others. Really frustrating to try and use. Not worth the hassle. I am using CC Illustrator 2015 on a Mac.

[Monika Gause]

LNakell schrieb:

This Live Corner widget feature is totally inconsistent for me. It will work on one object, but then not on others. Really frustrating to try and use. Not worth the hassle. I am using CC Illustrator 2015 on a Mac.

Is this just a comment or are you looking for help? If the latter - show your artwork.

The live corners will only be availbale if it's a corner point and if there is enough space to even create a round corner (wiith points too tightly set on the paths you can't round them)

[collinm42164605]

so then is there no way to round out the corners if there is not enough space?

[rdllngr]

If the object is very, very small, the tiny circle of radius will not appear on the corners. In this case, try to work on a larger scale. (create bigger shapes and less zoom)

[Tinkerbell327]

Corner widgets are not appearing for me in Illustrator CC 2015.3.0 20.0.0 (64-bit) in Windows 7; you can see from the rectangle that the widgets are not showing and from the view menu and the shape widget button that they should be on.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Monika Gause]

Turn on the bounding box.

[Tinkerbell327]

Thanks for the reply Monika; but, corner widgets are supposed to appear whether or not you have the bounding box on.  I have watched 20 hours of tutorials so far and see the teachers dropping shapes without their bounding boxes turned on but, the corner widgets show up anyway.  I'll try to find a screenshot of it, but, in the meantime, if there is another solution that would be great. (found one) - If you check out the screenshot, you should notice that the live corners button is turned on and they are visible, even though the "Show Bounding Box" view is off.  (This is a screenshot from one of the tutorials I've been watching) - my Illustrator does not behave like this...

[Monika Gause]

Did you try it?

[Tinkerbell327]

Yes. I did, and that works, but, the bounding box gets in the way sometimes, which I think is why it is not necessary to have it on for the live corners to show.

[zandergcu]

Turning on the bounding box fixed this for me! Thanks.

[Ton Frederiks]

Click on the shape with the Direct Selection Tool.