Shift+Click on the color palette: color none (to temporarily remove the stroke)ħ. CmRm-procedure to place a circle with some radius somewhereĥ. You cannot use the Tools Controls Bar directly, sinceĪ) the x,y coordinates are the lower left corner of the bounding boxī) the x,y position depends on the stroke widthġ.-4. numerical input of center point and radius, it's already getting more complicated: I think that's about the minimum you can get.
So, these are 4 actions to get a circle with some radius placed somewhere with the mouse. mouse drag the radius to the desired distance and release The most obvious procedure is: CmRm: Center mouse, Radius mouseĤ. If you take the 1st out of 5 parameters with 3 methods and the 2nd parameter out of 5 with again 3 methods that's already 225 different procedures (in theory ) This gives a lot of different possibilities to draw a circle. Let's call these modes of entry: mouse (m), numeric (n), snap (s) Let's call these coordinates/parameters as follows:Ĭenter (C), Radius (R), Diameter (D), Point 1, 2, 3 (P1,P2,P3), Square (S)Īll these parameters can be defined either by
However, I experienced that many of the possible ways to define a circle in Inkscape seem to be rather complicated and not straightforward.Ī circle can be defined by the user via several parameter sets:Ī) 1 center point (C) and a radius (R) or a diameter (D) or a point on the circumference (P1)ī) 2 points (P1,P2) on the circumference + a center point (C) to be chosenĬ) 2 end points (P1,P2) on the diameter (as a special case of b) )ĭ) 3 points (P1,P2,P3) on the circumferenceĮ) Well, Inkscape also uses a corner point of a surrounding square (S) (not necessarily bounding box, since it depends on the stroke). Drawing a circle sounds pretty easy, I thought.
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