How to remove (or reduce threshold) for auto closing paths when using the pencil tool?

[Guest]

Incredibly frustrating to have Illustrator auto close paths when drawing with the pencil. How to turn this feature off?

[Monika Gause]

Can you please elaborate what exactly you want to do?

[Guest]

Thanks for the response. When using illustrator on the iPad, I can use the pencil to draw a line, but once done drawing, Illustrator automatically joins the end of the line with the beginning of the line. I was attempting to draw on an A2 sized page, so the distance between the end and start of the line drawn was approx 1cm. I understand the usefulness of auto join, but how do I disable this to simply draw? Or reduce the auto join threshold to 1mm? Thank you!

[harryt83959173]

I'm having the same problem, did you find a solution?

[defaultfoywcuhslo3g]

Thank you for posting about this! I was all excited about using Illustrator to trace images for a project, but after 5 minutes of this auto joining I got really frustrated. I will find another tracing app in the meantime while waiting for an update. Urgh.

[Michael J. Hoffman]

I see your point - when using the pencil tool, there's no option to turn off the feature, and the distance threshold is quite large. Ideally, there could be an on/off toggle as well as a threshold that could be adjusted.

I recommend that you request this feature using the in-app suggestion available under App Settings > Help.

I will update the subject line on this thread to add the this is related to the "Pencil" tool.