Posted by LordOfBikes on Jul 21, 2018; 10:01am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Confusing-about-Specify-point-on-circle-on-LibreCAD-2-2-0-RC1-tp5716234p5716237.html

It was confusing before and it is confusing now, hard to find the solution which fits all

There were some emotional discussions about this in past and also different code contributions.

For the "Center, Point" tool the earlier text was about to enter radius, what was also confusing, as you need to enter a coordinate to specify the circle radius and not the distance from center. So we finally ended with "Specify point on circle", which at least is the radius, as every point on the circle has the distance of radius from center.

When the radius of a circle is known, one better goes with the "Center, Radius" tool, as mentioned above.
But you can handle this with the "Center, Point" tool too. After specifying the center, enter the radius as relative coordinate in the command line. If you want a circle with radius 10, you can enter "@10,0" or "@0,10" to specify the point on circle at 0° or 90° direction.
But the main intention for the "Center, Point" tool, is when you want to draw a circle which has its constraints in the drawing, where you possibly don't know the center or radius.

Armin