Construction Ellipse Edit window

Allows you to review and change the settings of one or more construction ellipses.
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Pen color: White or Red or Yellow or Green or Cyan or Blue or Magenta. Select the display color you want to apply to the construction ellipse.

Layer: The drawing layer the construction ellipse is drawn on.

Major axis radius: The distance from the center of the construction ellipse to either one of the two points where its major axis terminates at the perimeter of the construction ellipse.

Minor axis radius: The distance from the center of the ellipse to either one of the two points where its minor axis terminates at the perimeter of the construction ellipse.

Rotation of major axis: A positive or negative number of degrees (90 to -89.9999). This controls the rotation of the construction ellipse around its Z axis, which runs through the center of the ellipse, perpendicular to the plane of your current drawing.

0 degrees makes the major axis of the construction ellipse horizontal.

A positive number rotates the construction ellipse counterclockwise.

A negative number rotates the construction ellipse clockwise.

  • The position of these form buttons on the screen tells you what settings they apply to. Click here for more information.
  • You can Copy the settings on this screen, then Paste those settings to a different screen of the same type.
  • You can Save the settings on this screen to a global folder that is used by your current version of SDS2. Give the file a name that will help other users identify its purpose. You can Load a saved file to replace the settings on this screen with the settings that are stored in the file you select.
  • When editing multiple screens at the same time, 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.

OK (or the Enter key) closes this screen and applies the settings.

Cancel (or the Esc key) closes this screen without saving any changes.

Reset undoes all changes made to this screen since you first opened it. The screen remains open.