Illustrator: Add Anchor Point

Hi the best way is use pen tool and take it close to drawing then you see auto option to add points check video...Thanks.

As Monika and Doug said, you can access all tools in the tools panel by choosing Window > Toolbars > Advanced.

Another way to access all tools is to click the 3 dots at the bottom of the tools panel, then choose

Then choose Advanced from the flyout menu that appears.

If you press and hold on the Pen tool in the toolbar, you should see the add and delete anchor point tools.

By the way, the add and delete anchor point tools can do their job whether or not a path is selected. To add or delete anchor points using the Pen tool itself, the path must be selected.

In Adobe Illustrator I'm used to adding anchor points to a path simply by using the pen tool. The dedicated "add anchor points" tool is a bit redundant for what the pen tool can do on its own. The pen tool has a few keyboard short cuts that make it fairly easy to modify paths while they're still in progress of being drawn. You can re-position points, adjust anchor point handles, convert anchor points to smooth or corner points, add or subtract points from the paths while you're still drawing the path. The function doesn't work quite as smoothly as it does in Photoshop. If you go back to try to adjust existing points on the path Illustrator is prone to throwing down a new path segment wherever you click. Mastering these keyboard shortcuts can speed up certain tasks.

I would still like it if Adobe at least had an add anchor point button on the tool bar. CorelDRAW has such a function in its tool set. If you click the "+" button it will place a new "node" halfway between the selected anchor point and the next one. If you select multiple points it will place multiple new points after the selected ones. It can be kind of helpful for certain technical drawing tasks.

Astute Graphics' PathScribe plug-in for Illustrator can perform the same functions (and more).

So to rephrase: You're saying that the Add AnchorPoint Tool and Delete AnchorPoint Tool are absent from the Pen Tool icon.

Unless it has changed since CS6, you can invoke those tools by tapping the + and - keys, respectively (as explained in the documentation).

JET

Please show what exactly you want to add where.

There are several possibilities depending on the nature of the drawing and what exactly you want to do.