Show / Hide Center Point / Anchor Point

[greatlakess]

Hello,

In the new CC 2017 for Illustrator I can't seem to enable my objects to always show and display the center point. Why was this moved from the Attributes tab?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Chose Show All from the Atributes Panel, or double click a couple of times on the Attributes Panel Name Tab (it's collapsed).

[Pam Swanson]

I am having the same problem in CC 2017 for Illustrator. It shows that the center point is active in the attributes panel but no center dot shows.

[Ton Frederiks]

And is also View > Show Edges (Cmd H or Ctrl H) active?

[ashleyr21177774]

I am having the same issue. I cant find the centerpoint on any of my image boxes.

[ashleyr21177774]

I am trying to use indesign 2017 and I can't find the attributes panel or any way to create a center point in any boxes when I am trying to center it on the page. I was able to do this in Indesign 2015 when I would move an image box, the center point would automatically appear. What happened and how do I get it back?

[Ton Frederiks]

This is not the InDesign forum.

This topic is about Illustrator.

[happy_photo5C23]

I'm have a similar issue where all the center points of guide-objects have lost their center points.  I've checked the Attributes panel and it looks correct and the View/Show Edges is turned on, but all boxes and circles (which have been converted into guides) have lost their center-points.  

[James Donato]

I am finding that the behavior of 32 years of Illustrator use has changed in regard to the center point. It used to be I could easily toggle to outline mode from preview and the center point was visible on every shape in my settings. Now, it only shows when the object is selected. The persistent center point makes nesting shapes on centers easy when dragging from center point to center point in line mode.

I currently have center point toggled on in attributes, but I only see the center point in either outline or preview mode and that makes hitting the target [the center point] in any shape difficult from a usability perspective. Is there some other setting I'm missing that would allow the old behavior of having a center point persistent in line mode? 

[HendersonGDI]

I'm having the same problem too. In wire frame mode, none of my shapes' centerpoints are visible until I click on them. This used to be standard when switiching to wire frame.

[Met1]

Mine are on by default although I can't find a pref that does this. 

If I create a box and turn off "show center" and then draw a new box, it has show center turned on (which I think is a little counter intuitive, if I just turned them off wouldn't you think I'd want them off for the next box?)

To turn them all on, select all, toggle show center in attributes panel.

If you have Smart Guides turned on, even if the centers are hidden when you drag over, it will highlight and display "center" on screen (you do have to know approx location of center).

[James Donato]

If I am zoomed in it becomes that much harder to find the centers of a shape. I just noticed that if I am in outline mode at 100% or less there will be a single pixel representing the shape center @ 100%. If you zoom out to much less than 100% the center point becomes exxageratedly large and obtrusive. It recedes to a single point @ 100% and is gone at any view larger than 100%.

[Met1]

"I only see the center point in either outline or preview mode"

what other mode are you drawing in, presentation?

[James Donato]

Actually, I have never noticed Presentation mode until you mentioned it. I've used Illustrator since '88 and ignore a lot of the new tech they throw at us.

[rockshowphoto]

I'm having this same issue, and I've found that when I hit Command-E (or menu View > View Using CPU) then the center anchor points appear. However, when I toggle back to View Using GPU, the center points are gone again.

On a 16" MacBook Pro 2019 running Mac OS Big Sur 11.2.3 and Adobe Illustrator 25.2.1. 

[James Donato]

Yeah, I have that as well.

27" 2019 Retina 5K iMac | Radeon Pro 580X 8 GB

Very useful workaround...thanks! 

[gspirtle]

Thank you, thank you @rockshowphoto!! the command E worked for me.

[craig3]

Thanks for that rockshowphoto!! But this has to be a unsolved bug "once again", what happens when you want to see the centers AND enable GPU view simultaneously? Come on Adobe, get it together!