Guides for freehand circles
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I am trying to draw an organic donut of sorts. So I have drawn freehand circles for variable cross sections and connected them with curviloft. This works perfectly except that now I am told that the diameter of the cross section cannot be any larger that 12" or smaller than 4". So I need 2 guides to work between. If I draw circles, I snap to them which ruins the freehand. But with tape measure I can only draw rectangular guides. I guess I could draw a star with line segments but it would be easier to just draw a circle. Is there any way to draw circles with the tape measure?
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@kathyisgreat said:
Is there any way to draw circles with the tape measure?
No. there isn't. What if you used the Circle tool to make a circle you can use as a guide and them make it a group or component so the freehand line doesn't become part of it? You could delete the component or group after you've finished with it. Would that work?
Or what about just rescaling the freehand "circles" after you've drawn them? You could draw each "circle" and make it a group or component. Then open the groups or components for editing, measure the diameter with the Tape Measure tool and enter the desired value.
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Seems remember that was a plug with circular guides lines!
I come back in few time
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With the tool "Convert edges into guides" from Curvizard you can convert a circle.
(But this will not prevent the snapping) -
See work plane by TIG for circular guide lines!
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Excellent! Thanks
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import an image of a circle, scale to size, then freehand trace over the picture?
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