Using a Radius to create a circle?
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Hello, I am Steve. I manufacture guitar accessories. I have a machine shop. I am advanced and find Sketchup very useful in a number of ways. As a machinist using CAD/CAM, I design in Sketchup first, before finalizing my drawings in a CAD program.
Can someone please explain why Sketchup requires me to use a radius when creating a circle? When I visit my tool box, I do not measure anything with a radius. I do not purchase drills, or anything for that matter, using a radius.
Sketchup forces me to pull up my calculator, after measuring the width, and divide that in half. Every time.
Why? It's unproductive. Is this a bug?
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Use 2D Tools by TIG!
But works only on horizontal Plane of Z=0!
Better use Didier Bur Arc Circle and use Circle 2 Points!
Works on any 3d Planes yet existing but not directly between 2 vertices of 2 different cubes!
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It's not a bug. It's just the way SketchUp is designed to work. Personaly I've never found it a big problem or unproductive to enter radii instead of diameters. I'm fairly new to SketchUp though with only about 16 years under my belt. Pilou has provided some extensions that would help you out.
FWIW, since you are using SketchUp for your business, you need to be using SketchUp Pro, not SketchUp Make as you have listed in your profile.
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