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Digitize Circle Using a Centre and a Radius

 

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Line Digitizer > Circle [centre + radius]

Area Digitizer > Circle [centre + radius]

Use with the Create Line Feature or Create Area Feature command.

A circle defined by specifying a centre point and a point on the circumference, which defines the length of the radius.

Related commands:

• Close Line

• Digitize Point to Point Line

• Digitize Fitted Curve

• Digitize Geodesic Line

• Digitize Loxodrome

• Digitize Spline

• Digitize Squared Line

• Digitize Stream Line

• Remove Last

• Digitize Arc Using a Centre and Two Points

• Digitize Arc Using Three Points

• Digitize Arc Using Two Points and a Direction

• Digitize Geodetic Arc

• Digitize Rectangle Using Three Points

• Digitize Rectangle Using Two Points

• Digitize Circle Using a Two Point Diameter

• Digitize Circle Using Three Points

• Digitize Circle Using Two Points and a Radius

• Digitize Geodetic Circle Using a Centre and a Radius

• Digitize Geodetic Circle Using Two Point Diameter

• Digitize Geodetic Circle Using Two Points and a Radius

Procedure

1. Select the Digitize Circle Using a Centre and a Radius command.

2. Click at the centre point (1) of the circle.

3. Press and hold the left mouse button.

4. Drag the cursor to expand the circle to the appropriate size.

5. Release the mouse button.

You can click directly on point 2 but pressing and dragging will give you a preview of the circle.

The circle is created.