eraser tool painting instead of erasing in Adobe Illustrator

Question

The first image on the left above shows my starting point. I want to erase the 4 sharp points in the inside of the overlapping circles so they look smooth. However, when I select the eraser tool and click+drag it over the points on the inside/left of the image, I get the result shown in the second picture above. What am I doing wrong? The circles are not grouped together but they are in the same layer.

Monika Gause · Accepted Answer

Use the Join tool for that.https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8ma7ojf9fkm1yf/JOINTOOL.MP4?dl=0

KShinabery212 · Answer

Ok, This is what I normally do...

So let's say I created a path like you have.

I usually to Object>Expand. This turns my line into a closed object. Then I can erase parts of the object.

Before doing this, if I am trying to erase it continues to try to close the line. And that is the issue you are running into.

I even expand TEXT too if I want to erase or adjust parts of it.

Here is a example... for every line of this project I expaned the line to become an object. As you will see it has quite a lot of lines.

https://kennshinabery.myportfolio.com/ghostbusters-jillian-holtzmann-kate-mckinnon

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