so you want to be able to change the rod length AND the position of one end of the rod along one of the circles?
then the other end of the rod touches the other circle at the correct distance?
if so, that’s probably a little bit easier.
that said, it’s hard to figure out exactly what you’re trying to do
I have no idea where I learned that trick, but if I search the online Rhino help for “between” I get zilch.
Although the option is listed in the OSnap page, however when I navigate to it the url in the browser doesn’t update so I don’t know how to share a link to it either…
here a link from the docs for anybody wanting to read up those easter eggs, which also contains some more info on more of such “hidden” snap functions.
what i also have found that the ctrl hover function to toggle those bunnies does not function on mac @dan can you have a look if thats so? also the short versions like AlonP instead of AlongParallel do not work on mac… i dont know if they are valid at all since i found that info here
i am afraid not. what i meant is this (copied from the docs somewhere in the middle
under Object snaps using references):
To access reference object snaps from the Osnap control Press the Ctrl key and hover over the Osnap control. The alternate reference object snaps appear.
which does not work on mac at all, only through typing it into the value box,
which is without autocomplete pretty painful.
on mac, the osnap panel has a button for one-shot instead of cmmd hover…
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i’m pretty sure windows doesn’t have the one shot button… i suppose it’s arguable that the way it’s being done on mac is more user friendly and discoverable… but i don’t know if that’s the reason the two versions are different in this regard or if it’s a technical reason (such as- focus may not go to the panel on macOS in the same way windows deals with it so a hover+key may not work? instead, you have to explicitly click on a panel or another window in order to bring focus? something similar to this happens when going between Rhino and Grasshopper).
fwiw, i believe i read @pascal explaining a different behavior for V6 windows… there’s now a shift-click and a ctrl-click in the osnap panel to bring up different one-shot options… something like that.
Shift-Hover is in V5 for Windows, it makes once-shots of the existing persistent snaps, and ctrl-hover gets you some of the more exotic one-shots. In V6/WIP adds a couple of exotic one-shots to the Shift-hover list - Between and Percent. I’m not sure what I said before, but I’m sticking to this one.
Hi Jeff - with Percent, you pick a curve and enter a % (default =25) and the curve is temporarily marked off with snappable points at multiples of the requested %. The sequence starts at the picked end of the curve, which of course matters if the number does not fit cleanly into 100.
(btw, it is in V5 and probably there on the mac (can’t test now) as PercentageSnap. Just not discoverable… which reminds me I can add a macro and button for V6, I don’t think we have one yet.)
-Pascal