there is no circumference option in making a circle, but there is one in ModifyRadius. i know there is a python script but since the code is already somehow in rhino could it find its way into the circle command?
edit: ok found it again, i though so that i saw it, but it appears only after you pick a center point, i think it would make more sense to put that in the first row of options or why is it in the 2nd?
Same as circle by radius or diameter - you have to set the center point first in order to enter a radius or diameter… Macro possible:
! _Circle _Pause _Circumference
yes i was thinking about a macro, but i dont use it really that often, as you see i even had to unriddle the hidden 2nd options having forgotten all about it at first.
i had the feeling that radius and diameter was in the first sets of options before either, trying to remember if there were even 2nd options before at all, like in v5 for instance. they all could be toggled, selected before having to pick the center point. i see only one option which makes sense to pop up after you have set the first point which might be orientation but even that could be selected before… or have you got an answer for the 2nd options?
the tooltip is also misleading, it permanently shows radius though once set to diameter it seems sticky.
Nope, nothing has changed since V5 - on the Windows side at least. I don’t remember how the Mac command line options for circle were presented back then.
Tooltips do not change to match the command line options that are currently set. To be accurate, this button just calls the command _Circle without any options set, so perhaps the tooltip should just read Circle because there are a whole bunch of options after that, not just radius/diameter; some of them even do not need the center to be set, as in 2Pt and 3Pt.
ideally yes… the main question remains, if it makes sense at all to have a 2nd row of options.
Well in general, the first level of options pertains to the main command; each succeeding level down contains sub-options that only pertain to the option chosen in the previous level. There are some commands that have three options levels… There might even be one or two that have four levels…
It doesn’t make sense to have all those options on a single level, aside from the length, there might then be options shown on the first level that would be useless depending on what other option was chosen on the same level.
Hi Mitch -
This is ancient stuff but I assume it has the tooltip it does because with no options set, that’s what you get. I don’t know that it is any more useful tnan just ‘Circle’… other than to distinguish it from all the others that have options set.
-Pascal
Hi Pascal,
Well, this has never bothered me particularly, it was just an off-the-top-of-my-head comment.
Cheers, --M
not all, but definitely a few more to make it more visible, the first set is not that overloaded.