When you lose your rounded corner.

Published: 22 August 2024
on channel: James Barnard
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🔘🔘🔘 When you lose a live corner in Illustrator, there are a few ways to get it back.

The most likely culprit is a stray path point over the top of the corner. Just delete a path point and your live corner will come back.

Another reason is that your vector is too small. Just size up your object in the transform panel, round off your corner and then size back down.

But sometimes you just need to redraw it, like in this example. Delete any extra/stray anchor points and then with the direct selection tool, extend your paths past the point of the corner. Then hold down ALT/OPTION with the Shape Builder Tool (SHIFT+M) and shave away the overlap. 👍🥴

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