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Illustrator Tip #15: Converging Points Together Using Average Function

By Tony Soh Posted on April 5th, 2009

This tip will show you how to use the unknown Average function in illustrator to converge points. In this diagram, I have a 3d extrude star drawn using path tool. However, the points doesn’t converge at the end. To solve this problem, select all the points you want to converge using Direct Selection Tools. In this case, I will only select the 3 anchor points at the end. Now go to Object>Path>Average. Select Both and click OK. The ends will now converge perfectly together!

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Tags: 3d star, extrude, Illustrator, star, tips

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1. 
   Khawla April 5th, 2009

   I have not known about this function until now! Thanks for sharing

2. 
   Asmaa' April 6th, 2009

   Thanks for sharing! nice tip will see how can i use it

3. 
   Chris Spooner April 6th, 2009

   Thanks for the tip, that’s another Illustrator nugget I never knew about.

4. 
   James Kindred April 6th, 2009

   Fantastic tip – thanks.

5. 
   Joren Rapini April 6th, 2009

   Thanks! Love these kinds of tidbits.

6. 
   Peter Breis April 7th, 2009

   Hardly unknown, it has been part of Illustrator since the year dot.

   Adobe unfortunately took away some of the more convenient keyboard shortcuts for it, demoting it I guess.

7. 
   Steff April 8th, 2009

   BIG thanks for u ^^

8. 
   Sigurdur Armannsson May 6th, 2009

   It’s also worth noticing the keyboard shortcuts for these actions: Option+Cmd+J to average.

   Very often one needs to Average and Join (Cmd+J) paths. To do that in just one shortcut you do: Cmd+Option+Shift+J.

9. 
   Rob Barrett - Nice Hot Cuppa May 13th, 2009

   Cheers Tony, that’s a great little tip to learn about!
   And thanks for the keyboard shortcuts, Sigurdur.