Shape Builder Tool not working for me!

[diegoa25687388]

This is extremely frustrating as i spent a few hours on this as well all do on our art. I get to the last part that requires me to clean it up and for some reason the shape builder tool doesn't want to delete lines or merge anything. Just the entire entity. I tried filling it with clear, ungrouping all of it, i tried grouping all of it. Nothing seems to work. please help me!

https://i.gyazo.com/109135bd3373869bed9693a401003bdc.mp4

Here's what i'm talking about.

[tonyharmer]

Hi

It's difficult to tell from your video, but it looks to me like there are gaps in your art that are preventing the Shape Builder from working as you're expecting. Take a look at the art in Outline View (CMD+Y/CTRL+Y) to see if there are gaps, then correct them if required and try again.

If that doesn't work, could you share the file?

[diegoa25687388]

How would i go about sharing the file? Also the thing with this design is that they're not technically supposed to be touching because it's a balisong which means the handles move and such.

[Monika Gause]

Double click the shape builder tool in the tool panel.

Turn on Gap detection.

[diegoa25687388]

I tried that and it did not work unfortunately

[Ares Hovhannesyan]

Can you share a file? If not I want to see your layers panel more clearly. Thanks

[diegoa25687388]

how do i share this file?

[Ares Hovhannesyan]

Load it to any Cloud Service.. DropBox, OneDrive and share a link for downloading. Thanks

[diegoa25687388]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=12y-RVuTmYHFz2XElTRtGaG8hCmrWhUJC

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

You've got a live paint object in there.

Why don't you just continue using Live paint for what you're doing? You can add more paths to it.

[diegoa25687388]

There are certain parts of this knife design that won't work if i just do that. I need to be able to delete some lines in there in order for it to make accurate sense. I really hope i don't have to redo this all. is there any way to revert a live paint object?

[diegoa25687388]

All i did was release the object from live paint and everything worked again. Thank  you all for your help!