Curvature Circle Preferences

Doubleclicking the Curvature Circle tool in the toolbox (or pressing the Enter key when the tool is selected) will bring up its preferences dialog:

Curvature Circle Preferences

1. Snap Tolerance

The snapping tolerance for the cursor when locating the circle. If Smart Guides are turned on, the Smart Guides tolerance value is used if it is larger than the specified value.

2. Snap When Smart Guides are Off

When enabled, and Smart Guides are turned off, the cursor will still snap to paths using the specified Snap Tolerance.

3. Annotate Radius Value

When enabled, the radius of the circle that will be created is displayed dynamically next to the cursor.

4. Always Place Anchor Points in Standard Positions

When enabled, the final circular path will always have four anchors points at the standard positions (0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°, taking into account the general constrain angle). Otherwise, anchor points will be created every 90° starting at the tangency point.

5. Treat Bezier Circular Arcs As Constant Radius

When enabled, arcs of 90° or less which are mathematically as close to true circular arcs as possible are treated as if they had constant radius. An asterisk (“*”) will be appended to the displayed radius value (see Curvature Circle: Tool Operation).

6. Make Circles Dynamic

This preference will be available only if the Astute Graphics VectorScribe plugin is installed. When enabled, circles will automatically be created as Dynamic Circles, which can then be immediately modified by the Dynamic Shapes tool.

7. Informational area

Shows a brief description of each preference control when the cursor is being hovered over it.

8. Help Button

Opens the help documentation in the Astute Manager. If this does not automatically appear, please ensure your Astute Manager is running first.