SitePlan: Con Circle Edit

The Construction Circle Edit window ( Modeling & Drawing Editor )

In the Drawing Editor , options on this window are read-only if you are editing a construction circle that is not on a comment layer and your current drawing is not a crane placement drawing . If your current drawing is a crane placement drawing, you can add or edit objects on non-comment layers as well as on comment layers. Instructions on this page assume you are not in a crane placement drawing.

To open this window:
- Construction Circle Add ( Modeling )
- Construction Circle Add Radius *** ( Drawing Editor )
- Construction Circle Add Diameter *** ( Drawing Editor )
- Cponstruction Cirle Add 2 Point *** ( Drawing Editor )
- Construction Circle Add Tan Tan Radius ( Drawing Editor )
- Construction Circle Edit or double-click a construction circle
- For operations marked *** User and Site Options > Drawings > " : Always show Circle Edit window " must be checked for this window to open.

Also see :

Exact point (the center of a construction circle)
Construction lines (similar graphic entities)

" Copy " " Paste " " Save " " Load " buttons

These buttons appear on this window only if the construction circle (or construction circles) you are editing are on a comment layer .

You'll find buttons like these at the top of this window. They apply to all user-editable settings that are on this window. Click here for more information.

You can " Copy " ( ) the settings on this window, then change the " Construction circle__of " number you are editing using the VCR buttons, then " Paste " ( ) those settings to the newly selected construction circle.

The " Save " ( ) button saves a file to the form/cons-circle folder ( ) that is used by your current version of this program. Give the file a name that will help users in other Jobs on your network identify its purpose. " Load " ( ) changes all settings on this window to those settings that are stored in the file that you select.

" Paste " and " Load " replace mixed entries to a single field with a single entry. " Copy " and " Save " ignore fields with mixed entries, treating them as if they have no entry or do not exist.

------ Settings ------

Diameter or Radius: Select the option you want to use to define the size of the construction circle, then enter the desired distance (in the primary dimension " Units " or other units ).

Construction circles with three different diameters (mm):

Note: If you are Adding a construction circle, you have the option of entering the radius instead of the diameter. When Editing a construction circle, only the " Diameter " is shown on this window. A construction circle's radius will always be half its diameter.

X rotation ( Modeling only) : The positive or negative (-) number ( 90 to -90 ) of degrees of X axis rotation that you want to rotate the construction circle in order to create an ellipse. Rotation is around the X screen axis .

all construction circles are the same diameter
X rot = 0 Z = 0	X rot = 22.5 Z = 0	X rot = 45 Z = 0	X rot = 67.5 Z = 0

' 0 ' (zero) makes the construction circle perfectly round. Increasing magnitudes up to ' +/- 90 ' degrees give you an elliptical construction circle that is increasingly narrow.

Z rotation ( Modeling only) : The positive or negative (-) number ( 90 to -90 ) of degrees of Z axis rotation that the ellipse is to be rotated. Rotation is around the Z screen axis , which runs perpendicular to your computer screen, straight through the center of the elliptical construction circle.

all construction circles are the same diameter
X rot = 0 Z = 0	X rot = 22.5 Z = 0	X rot = 45 Z = 0	X rot = 67.5 Z = 0
X rot = 0 Z = 22.5	X rot = 22.5 Z = 22.5	X rot = 45 Z = 22.5	X rot = 67.5 Z = 22.5
X rot = 0 Z = 45	X rot = 22.5 Z = 45	X rot = 45 Z = 45	X rot = 67.5 Z = 45

' 0 ' (zero) results in no Z rotation. A ' positive number ' of degrees rotates the ellipse clockwise. A ' negative (-) number ' of degrees rotates the ellipse counterclockwise.

Note: " Z rotation " applies only to an elliptical construction circle. To get an ellipse, enter a value other than ' 0 ' to " X rotation '.

Pen color: White or red or Yellow or Green or Cyan or Blue or Magenta . Press the button for the display color that you want to apply to the construction circle(s).. No button is pressed if you are editing multiple construction circles that have different colors.

Since construction circles are not plotted, the choice you make here will not affect the appearance of drawings when they are plotted.

Attached to view ( Drawing Editor only) : A number designating the view that this construction circle is attached to. This applies mainly to member details , since member details are likely to show more views than submaterial details , the only other type of drawing on which you might find multiple views. For instance, a column detail may have a view of face A, face B and face C. It may also have various section views (Section A-A, Section B-B, Section C-C). All graphical objects that are in a particular view are assigned the same number.

Assigning the correct number to an object (line, weld symbol, label, etc.) provides maximum compatibility when the comment layer you add that object to is viewed or printed in a full-featured SDS2 program .

To show a view's number, you can add the X-Y-Z Display to your toolbar.

In the Drawing Editor , the X-Y-Z Display shows the view number that the point location target ( ) is over.

Layer ( Drawing Editor only) :

Select the drawing layer (any layer given a " Name ") that you want the construction circle you are adding or editing to be drawn on after you press " OK " to close this window. If that layer happens to be hidden (not marked " Show "), the construction circle will disappear after the first Redraw .

For switching to a different construction circle or ellipse :

Circle _ of __ ( Drawing Editor only -- not applicable to Add or multiple edit) : The number of the one construction circle you are editing and the total count of all construction circles in your current drawing. You can use the VCR buttons to select a different construction circle that is on a comment layer and edit that construction circle while still on this window. When a construction circle on a shown layer is selected, it is displayed in green (cyan if its actual color is green). The selected construction circle must be on a shown layer for it to be shown.

VCR buttons (first-previous-next-last) for selecting a construction circle to edit.

Note: If you change one construction circle, then select a different construction circle, the first construction circle remains changed even if you press " Cancel " on this window.

To close this window :

Possibility #1 :
Press the " OK " button if this window is for review only
(if you are editing a construction circle that is not on a comment layer ).

Possibility #2 :
If you are in Modeling or on a comment layer ,
the bottom of this window will show the following buttons:

"OK" (or the Enter key) closes this window and completes the Construction Circle Add or Construction Circle Edit operation.

Defaults: When you press " OK ," the settings on this window -- except mixed entries -- become the default settings for the next construction circle you Add during this session of the Drawing Editor . Even if all you do is double-click a construction circle that is on a comment layer and press " OK " without making any changes on this window, this window's settings become the defaults for the next-added construction circle. The settings on this window do not become the defaults for new construction circles if you press " Cancel " to close this window (unless you used the " Circle _ of __ " widget).

"Cancel" (or the Esc key or the button) closes this window without saving any of the changes you have made. " Cancel " only cancels the changes made to the construction circle whose number is currently selected in the " Circle _ of __ " widget.

Tip 1: Although " Cancel " does not cancel changes made to construction circles previously edited on this window, Undo does undo all those changes.

Tip 2: If you Edit a construction circle that is on a comment layer just to review it and don't want to set the defaults for to-be-added construction circles, the best way to close this window is to press " Cancel. "