Why can’t I draw a circle at a specific center location? The tutorials say to “type the absolute coordinates in the Measurements box”… but that function doesn’t seem to be available. The measurement box is defaulting to the number of “Sides”, not the location. Can I turn off this “Sides” setting and…

Which tutorial says to do that? could you provide a link?

Drawing a Circle or Ellipse | SketchUp Help Tip: Inserted SketchUp files can now contain Dashed Lines, to learn more about managing those new line types with inserted files, see Working with SketchUp Dashes in Imported Models Want to make your LayOut document a little more well-rounded?…

Drawing a circle To draw a circle, follow these steps: Select the Circle tool (). Click to place the circle’s center point. Or type absolute coordinates in the Measurements box and press Enter (Microsoft Windows) or Return (Mac OS X). To define the circle’s radius, move the cursor away from the …

In SketchUp you can move existing entities to specific locations. You can’t start drawing at any desired locations unless there is some reference point right there, like an endpoint, midpoint, edge, face, guide, intersection etc.

Yeah, that was my backup plan. I guess I’ll be using a lot of “construction lines”.

If you draw a circle at a wrong location, you can move it to the desired one using the move tool: click the circle center, wiggle the mouse to start the move, and then type the absolute coordinates where you want the center to go [x,y,z] (with actual values, of course, and use ‘;’ instead of ','as s…

That doesn’t seem to work. It seems to want “Distance” not absolute coordinates.

Just type the absolute coordinates when it says “distance”. It will work!

Drawing a Circle @ location

SketchUp

DaveR January 5, 2017, 4:39pm 5

If you read the top of that page and even in your quoted text, it indicates the topic is for LayOut, not SketchUp.

This is not a bug in SketchUp so I’m editing the title.

Topic		Replies	Views
How to Precisely Position the Center of a Circle on a Board? SketchUp for Web	3	2777	July 25, 2021
Specify precise circle properties SketchUp	9	2368	November 14, 2014
Newbie question: how to position objects accurately and erase unneeded circular lines in SketchUp 8? SketchUp	6	879	February 5, 2022
How can I find the centre of a circle at the end of a cylinder? SketchUp	4	6084	November 24, 2014
Please help on drawing some very simple rectangles and circles SketchUp sketchup , advice	8	1789	November 3, 2016

Drawing a Circle @ location

Related topics