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Path not closing with pen tool

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
May 20, 2021
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When drawing inside or when drawing a shape on top of an other shape's anchorpoints (shape underneath is locked) I'm unable to close the path with the pentool.
Instead of closing the shape I put 2 anchorpoints on top of each other. Also don't see the small circle indication appearing to close of the path.
Only solution found so far is joing anchorpoints, but I don't feel like doing that much longer.
Issue is only occuring since a couple of days. I have no issues with standard pentool drawing
Please help! (Thanks!)

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barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

I'm not able to replicate that issue. Sounds like some corruption.

You may need to delete the preferences file (Edit > Preferences > General, Reset Preferences). Or you may need to uninstall/reinstall.

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dyLS E

Participating Frequently

just got hit with this bug today too. So annoying.

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catherinepleased

Known Participant

i'm suddenly having this problem also, did you find a solution? it seems to only be happening if im using snap to point and working on a layer that is ontop of another unlocked layer

Anshul_Saini

Community Manager

Hi @catherinepleased,

Sorry to hear about the trouble you are facing. I tried but couldn't replicate the issue at my end. Would you mind checking how it works under Outline preview? Also, have you tried resetting Illustrator preferences? This might help resolve the issue. However, if it doesn't, would it be possible for you to share a small recording of the issue along with a sample file? This would really help us understand the issue, and we can assist accordingly.

Looking forward to it.

Regards,

Anshul Saini

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JodieChellew

Participant

Hi Anshul

Were you able to solve this pen tool issue? I've had the same problem (unable to close the path) for the past few days. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, reset preferences. I am using Adobe 2024.

Met1

Legend

Are you trying to preserve a bezier curve?

If not just use Ctrl-J (I'm guessing Cmd-J on Mac?), if you have a lot of open paths you can draw around the whole object(s) with the knife tool and it will close them all - see http://vectorboom.com/load/tips/techniques/pathclothing/16-1-0-158 for a better explanation. There are scripts too (see end of web page above)

If you need to preserve the bezier curve(s) of the end points you'll need a plug-in like VectorScribe.

Anna Lander

Inspiring

did you try to hide the underneath shape? could it help?

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