illustrator merging shapes with pathfinder issue

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December 3, 2019
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Hello,

I hope someone has an answer for my issue with Illustrator 2020

I want to merge three shapes into one shape, but when I use pathfinder merge tool it adds a lot of anchor points. This really bugs me out, because I want a clean shape. Below the images to illustrate the issue.

Is there an explaination or a bug in the program?

Bug

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Jacob Bugge

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Ah, Ton, Ruler of Rifts.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

More like Ruler of Shifts...

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Thank you for your finding it, Ton.

So it was a rift.

Luckily that part was here in the first place and revived this thread from a month and a half ago; I thought it was brand new, starting today.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Jacob, I found it because I moved it to its own topic (because it did not have anything to do with the original topic (except the words Pathfinder and Merge).

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

It seems that part of this thread from earlier today fell into a rift in the spacetime (dis)continuum, seemingly without reappearing elsewhere, so maybe it was actually a black hole.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

it appeared here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/struggling-with-pathfinder-merge/td-p/10877454

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

time,

A most exquisite solution.

T

time18

Inspiring

I have drawn simple shapes with black stroke and white fill, overlapped to match your style, used Pathfinder to Unite and got only 4 nodes.

I am using Illusrator CS2020 (about window shows 24.0).

Have you considered drawing a triangle, applying a stroke with rounded corners, and then creating outlined stroke? This sholud give you a clean shape, once outlined, view wireframe and delete the inner keyine you originall created.