_Circle Tangent Won't Work With Clipping Plane

I’m trying to trace the profile of a scanned mesh like so:

I don’t normally use _Circle Tangent. It took me a good minute to figure out that it can’t pick a curve lying on the clipping plane (YZ Plane).

It will work if I hide the scanned reference mesh.

Hi Eric - see if changing the SnapToOccluded setting does you any good.

-Pascal

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That did it, but I had 15 minutes of pure frustration, reading the _Circle help file and wondering what I was doing wrong. I never think about SnapToOccluded, I leave it disabled, and the curve wasn’t occluded. This feels buggy from the expected UI experience.

If you can see it → you can click it → you can snap it. I could see and click, but not snap.

It’s an open mesh if that matters.

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