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Circle refuses to create as i want

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Karol-Or
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Circle refuses to create as i want

I want to draw a circle centered on the origin and reaching to the intersection of the vertical and horizontal line. i can't, it jumps to the circle already drawn. i tried to change snap settings.

I found the reason, they don't lie on the same plane. i can't delete the post, why?

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Alfred.NESWADBA
in reply to: Karol-Or

Hi,

 

have you looked to the geometry from another perspective?

 

20161030_2351.png

This shows the endpoint of the "vertical line" (which is here the shorter line) has a different Z-value compared to the center of the circle.

When you now start command _CIRCLE, show first the center point (= center of your existing circle) you are now asked for the radius ==> and this distance (if you show a new point) is measured between the previous point (center of the existing circle) and the second point.

Well ... the problem is that the different Z-value influence the distance between point1 and point2 ==> it's not what you see 2-dimensional (from your to view).

 

Distance between these 2 points in 3D-space: 55.2254

Distance between these 2 points only 2D measured: 46.5457

 

And that's why the radius is larger than you thought.

 

- alfred -

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Kent1Cooper
in reply to: Karol-Or


@Karol-Or wrote:

I want to draw a circle centered on the origin and reaching to the intersection of the vertical and horizontal line. i can't, it jumps to the circle already drawn. i tried to change snap settings.

I found the reason, they don't lie on the same plane. i can't delete the post, why?


In that case, you could use APParent-intersection object snap to get the result that I expect you want.

 

You could have [within a certain time limit] Edited the original message and replaced its contents with some kind of "never-mind" wording.  And you could pick on the "Report" button at lower left, and ask the Moderator to remove it, but that may not be possible once anyone has Replied to it.

Kent Cooper, AIA

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