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jww153@gmail.com

Re: Circle Drawing with radius command.

Interesting new find. I drew a line with positive locations and it worked fine. Then I used the @4,-2 and it failed with the same syntax error, even though the command would have resulted in a positive location. It is just refusing to accept the minus sign in the command line.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 5:24 PM dellus [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

OK, let's try again. I have the same version running as you.
Initiate the operation with Tools - Circle - Center, Radius.

In the Tool Options bar above the drawing area an input box for the radius appears. Set your radius there. I decide for 20. A circle with radius 20 will immediately hang at the drawing cursor.

At the same time you are asked to specify the circle center in the Status bar at the bottom and in the separate bar under the command line window. Click into that bar and you get a blinking cursor there indicating activated and ready for input.

Type in: 16,-12 and press Enter.

It can happen that you don't close a previous command completely, it expects a repeated, continuous execution. But you may think you are doing a new command. This might produce confusion about the syntax. So if not sure end the previous command with a double Escape.

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perepujal

Re: Circle Drawing with radius command.

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I've just found that a) 2,-2 works for me but b) 2,‑2 does not work.
I will not say that is your case, but the above strings are writed with 2 different hyphens,
Just to discard the possibility of your keyboard generating a different hyphen, could you try to copy/paste the above strings and see if any of them works for you?

jww153@gmail.com

Re: Circle Drawing with radius command.

I copied and pasted both of your expressions and both generated the same syntax error.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 7:53 PM perepujal [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

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I've just found that a) 2,-2 works for me but b) 2,‑2 does not work.
I will not say that is your case, but the above strings are writed with 2 different hyphens,
Just to discard the possibility of your keyboard generating a different hyphen, could you try to copy/paste the above strings and see if any of them works for you?

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LordOfBikes

Re: Circle Drawing with radius command.

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This could be an already fixed issue. Iirc, it was only with inches, where negative numbers are not accepted.
The workaround was to use 2,0-2.
Or to use an newer LibreCAD version.
I don't remember exact versions or time frame when this issue was active.
It was discussed here in the forum and there is a closed issue on github about it.

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jww153@gmail.com

Re: Circle Drawing with radius command.

Thank you. I will give it a try.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 4:53 PM LordOfBikes [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

This could be an already fixed issue. Iirc, it was only with inches, where negative numbers are not accepted.
The workaround was to use 2,0-2.
Or to use an newer LibreCAD version.
I don't remember exact versions or time frame when this issue was active.
It was discussed here in the forum and there is a closed issue on github about it.

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jww153@gmail.com

Re: Circle Drawing with radius command.

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Thank you so much. The workaround seems to work just fine.

Best Regards,

John Walvoord.

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 4:53 PM LordOfBikes [via LibreCAD] <[hidden email]> wrote:

This could be an already fixed issue. Iirc, it was only with inches, where negative numbers are not accepted.
The workaround was to use 2,0-2.
Or to use an newer LibreCAD version.
I don't remember exact versions or time frame when this issue was active.
It was discussed here in the forum and there is a closed issue on github about it.

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