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Center point missing from shapes in outline mode

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December 26, 2012
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I seem to have lost the center line cross hairs in Illustrator CS6.

I draw some shapes, then go to outline mode and the center lines are now missing. They used to work. Still have them in CS5.

Here are a couple of images that show what I mean.

Here in 5 you can see the center points in each shape

Here is a similar picture from 6 with the center points missing.

The center points do show up if I put my cursor over the shape.

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Correct answer The Invalid

Hi there. I was having the same problem until I stumbled across a (new?) option in the Attributes palette.

There are two little boxes, one with a dot in the middle. Select that one, and all your problems will be solved. Hopefully.

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anams86192719

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Go to the View panel, enable Show Bounding Box.

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Herbie22012266fjw7

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No, that doesn't work. The circle is set to show center point, and Show Bouncing Box is on (but the bounding box does not appear in this screen shot).

MarkSR

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Same issue. Center-point is missing from guide objects (boxes and circles turned into guides). I've done everything recommended and the center-point still won't show. Object-guides used to show the center-points now they don't.

Monika Gause

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MarkSR schrieb
Same issue. Center-point is missing from guide objects (boxes and circles turned into guides). I've done everything recommended and the center-point still won't show. Object-guides used to show the center-points now they don't.

Please post this to http://illustrator.uservoice.com

MarkSR

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Done.

DrTc

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Is there a way to set Show Center by default in preferences or else? it is really annoying to have to go each time in the attributes panel to check the show center box

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shaunl19128181

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I am struggling with the same problem. This really needs fixing by Adobe ASAP

If I draw a shape then change to a guide you don't have a centre point showing and no way to do this even with attributes.

To have to change attributes every time just adds time to projects.

I really don't understand why this has changed in the latest software CC2019

Adobe please help us!!

The InvalidCorrect answer

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Hi there. I was having the same problem until I stumbled across a (new?) option in the Attributes palette.

There are two little boxes, one with a dot in the middle. Select that one, and all your problems will be solved. Hopefully.

fayew

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Attributes (show all) and select the box with the dot in it - fixed it for me - THANK YOU!

The Invalid

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You are very welcome!

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trần_vănh20461563

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Hi everybody, I think in new version, Adobe have moved center point to another tool. Like that

You can use it to turn around, transform, move shape by this tool.

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frederickt2624324

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Problem fixed ! thank you so much !!

saritt_nair

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Just go to menu 'View' and click on the Show Edges. And in Window>Attributes make sure the show center button is on. Hope this will make your issue solved.

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jonjon.eiko

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Same issue. Windows 7, Service Pack 1, AI 17.0.0 CC. Recently switched from Mac to Windows under pressure from IT, and at first I thought it was fine, but I keep running into annoying issues like this which evidently Adobe is very slow to address. How hard could it possibly be to fix something like this? And it IS a HUGE annoyance not being able to find centers on anything unless they're selected. C'mon Adobe...

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babawich

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I am having this same problem on both CC and CS 6 using windows 7. It does not happen on CC on the mac version.

Attributes show center point selected. It is kind of annoying not having this work. Any other work arounds?? Tried the reset through holding cntrl-shift-alt on CS 6.. not fixed.

I don't think it ever worked for these two versions on Windows for me. I noticed this problem before but kind of ignored it until I saw it working on mac.

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babawich

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Okay. So I ran the CC cleaner, I uninstalled and reinstalled, etc ... this problem is still happening on my windows 7 computer. It does not have this issue on the MAC or on my laptop with windows 8 installed.

Adobe Illustrator CC and CS 6 both. Surely someone has a fix? This is a very annoying issue that may seem little to some but I do rely on it a bit.

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Anonymous

Is it a Smartguides issue? Have you tried making those visible? They normally show the centerpoint relation to other elements.

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Rick_KCThings

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I had this same problem. Fortunately, I only had to close AI and restart and the centerpoints were finally visible. I am using Win 7 Pro, 8GB, 1900 X 1080 using AI creative Cloud version.

Mike_Gondek10189183

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If your atributes show center point weas off for every object that would happen.

I doubt that is what happened as that would go away with a new document, and you mentioned the mouseover revels centerpoint. I only have CS5 here at work but hopefully my post helps you out.

Try resetting your .ai preferences.