How do you snap a circle circumference to the end nodes of 2 skewed lines?
In the diagram, the circle will snap to line A; after moving the circle rotation point to the end node of line A at the point of contact, I then click and pivot the circle hoping to make contact and snap to the end of the second line B. It comes close, but never actually snaps. In wireframe and zoomed greatly, you can always see that the circle never really snaps to the second line. Thanks!
LCB-WTG said:I am try to fit a predetermined circle size to the gap at a rectangle corner; when fitted, neither line is perpendicular to the circle. Wishing that circle would just snap to both lines.
Some software - e.g., Autodesk Inventor, in the sketch environment - CAN solve that sort of geometry problem, but CorelDRAW doesn't work that way. It is not "constraint driven" in that way.
For your specific situation in CorelDRAW, I think that the solution from hywelHarris - manual rotation while zoomed in - is a good way to do it.
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Yes, but I should have drawn a larger circle so the connections do not look like they are at the quadrants.
Eskimo, thanks! It's good to know that it's a limitation of CorelDRAW and not just me. HywelHarris' solution is what I actually did to move on.
Myron,
That is the ACCURATE solution. At max magnification in wireframe, the circle touches the 2 nodes at each line end. Everything snaps into place. Geometry is King! My high school math teacher, a nun, would be disappointed in me; (we are still in contact 50 years later). Thank you for such and elegant and easy solution. This will go into my CorelDRAW Hints folder.
Leonard