Creating star with pointy tips but not weird

[panjakrejn]

I am trying to make five pointed star with sharp tips and crossed lines. when I make it normally I get blunt star tips, so I go to Stroke Alignment and choose "Inside" and I get the pointy tips, but then it screws up the lines so it looks like five smaller triangles rather than 5 straight lines.

How do I keep the lines crossing as in the first image, but get the pointy tips as in the second?

[h_d]

How did you draw the original star?

[Alfred]

You can easily draw a regular five-pointed star with the Star Tool, but the default mitre limit of 1.5 is too small for such sharp bends:

 

Increase the mitre limit until the points are no longer truncated:

 

For a pentagram, overlay a pentagon across the centre of the star:

[h_d]

My humble effort (a triangle traced over one point of the original star and then converted to curves and duplicated over the other points):

 

 

(Needs a lot more tidying up...)

star.afdesign

[panjakrejn]

OK, that will work, and I will probably wind up doing that (the bottom one), but I would still like to know why such a hack is necessary? Why can't I just draw five lines that cross with sharp points and no funky stuff in the middle?

[Alfred]

18 minutes ago, panjakrejn said:

Why can't I just draw five lines that cross with sharp points and no funky stuff in the middle?

You can do it that way, too! As long as the lines are joined end to end, the mitre limit will still apply.

[panjakrejn]

I get it! Using the Align Stroke to Inside was a red herring, I see now that what I should have done to get sharp points is the Miter Limit instead!!  Learn a few new things every day!