Part Circle
Part Circle |
Menu location |
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Part → Create primitives → Circle |
Workbenches |
Part |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
- |
See also |
None |
Description
This command will create a circular curved edge. With the default values, the circular curved edge will be closed and therefore will be a circle. If the properties Angle 0 or Angle 1 are changed from their default values (0 and 360) the edge will be an open curve, an arc.
Alternatively a Part Circle can be initially defined from three points. Once created the circle will only contain the standard Part Circle properties and will no longer contain a reference to the creation points.
Usage
A Circle geometric primitive is available from the Create Primitives dialogue in the Part workbench.
- Switch to the Part
- There are several ways to access the Create Primitives dialogue:
- Press the Primitives button located in the Part toolbar
- Use the Part → Create primitives → Circle
Notes
Properties
See also: Property editor.
A Part Circle object is derived from a Part Feature object and inherits all its properties. It also has the following additional properties:
Data
Base
Circle
- DataRadius (
Length
): The radius of the curved edge (arc or circle) - DataAngle 0 (
Angle
)}: Start of the curved edge, (degrees anti-clockwise), the default value is 0 - DataAngle 1 (
Angle
)}: End of the curved edge, (degrees anti-clockwise), the default value is 360
Limitations
Scripting
A Part Circle can be created with the following function:
circle = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject("Part::Circle", "myCircle")
- Where
"myCircle"
is the name for the object. - The function returns the newly created object.
The name of the object can be easily changed by
circle.Label = "new circleName"
You can access and modify attributes of the circle
object. For example, you may wish to modify the radius, angle 0 and angle 1 parameters.
circle.Radius = 10
circle.Angle0 = 45
circle.Angle1 = 225
The result will be a 45 degree rotated semicircle with a radius of 10.
You can change its placement and orientation with:
circle.Placement = FreeCAD.Placement(FreeCAD.Vector(2, 4, 6), FreeCAD.Rotation(30, 45, 10))
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