The pen tool isn't connecting anchor points on new shapes
When I try to create a new shape or path using the pen tool, it keeps creating single anchor points without linking them together. Is there a setting or something turned on that I'm not aware of, or is this a glitch? It's really impacting my work!
Nick Pickering
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Wayne Clark
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I’m having the same issue. The first point deselects when I add the next, whether I’m pulling handles or not. I can’t join open points in an already created object. Tried restarting AI and the computer several times. Hopefully a resolution can be found quickly. I’m losing a lot of time using work around. A lot!
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Shaun, are you on Mac as well?
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Shaun Laban commented
I have the same problem and got me completely baffled too. This seems to happen every so often and no idea why
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So my guess was at least correct — the path becomes disjointed because it gets deselected immediately, and each next point becomes a new path... as if Deselect All is somehow executes after each mouse release.
And since you say you didn’t close it, I have a suspicion something else other then Ai was the cause of it. Weird! -
Neither have I, it's very bizarre. It now seems to be working again after the weekend, which is even stranger seeing as I didn't quit the program after using it last.
– It's happened once before but corrected itself
– This time I restarted Illustrator, restarted the computer, completed updates to both Illustrator and my Mac, yet it was still happening afterwards.
– The points deselected when creating the next point
– If I clicked and dragged, it created a point with handles but still deselected when creating the next pointLike I said, it's working now but still very strange in the first place. I've been using Illustrator every day for 15 years and thought I'd seen everything, but this one had me completely stumped.
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Nick, never heard of this or saw anything similar :( There is no mode like this.
Do these points still stay selected when you place a new point, or do they all get deselected immediately?
What if you click and drag instead of just clicking, so you create a smooth point instead of one without handles?
What about other tools, do they behave strangely?
When did this start? Was it working fine in previous versions?
