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Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/13/2018 4:55:33 PM   
NimrodX


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Status: offline 		I have a weather radar app that lets you do this with it's ruler tool and it's useful.

Sometimes you just need to know distance, sometimes you want a range circle around something.

I'm not sure if it could just be enabled all the time on the ruler, maybe at 50% transparency or something, or if this would annoy people and there would need to be an option to disable it or a separate hotkey for a different "version" of the tool.
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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/13/2018 5:06:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Pretty sure you can do this already....?

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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/13/2018 5:37:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		You can create a circular area out of reference points, but that creates a bunch of reference points. I haven't seen a way to make the ruler tool draw a temporary circle using the measuring line as the radius.

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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/14/2018 7:05:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have to agree with Nimrod, the current feature of drawing circles by way of adding hundreds of waypoints is not the clearest way of doing this....



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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/14/2018 9:57:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		In the meantime it can help:
To manage patrolling zones and circles, I use non-navigation zones.
A circle or patrol zone = a non-navigation zone
-You can use the RP of a non-navigation zone for a patrol mission but you have to check "Visible Reference points" and unchecked "Aircraft", "Ships", "Submarines" and "Land units"

-The advantage is that when you remove the non-navigation zone and "Visible Reference points" is unchecked then the "thousands" of RPs used to make the circle are deleted automatically, no need to select them.

-For a range circle, if you used a unit as the center of your circle, you can read the radius of the circle in nm using the "xxx nm from sel" info in the Map Cursor Databox.





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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/14/2018 10:04:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		You have assigned the RPs in your circle to a non-navigation zone, you can hide the RPs of the circle by unchecking the "Visible reference points". But you will not be able to use them for a patrol zone. convenient to display a range area.

Anchoring RPs to a unit allows the zone to follow the unit.




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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/14/2018 6:52:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		That seems like a good technique if you want to mark a circular area that persists for a long time.

Come to think of it, another thing I wish the ruler tool would do is just stay there until you hit Ctrl-D again. Like Hit Ctrl-D, click two points, the ruler tool mode exits and the ruler line stays until you hit Ctrl-D again. To make it disappear you hit Ctrl-D twice. This would be helpful with or without the radius circle.

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RE: Feature idea: draw circumference around ruler tool - 5/15/2018 8:33:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just eyeball it, when using the ruler for certain measurements. Drawing on the map would be nice though, along with the ability to make drawings/notes/whatever relative to an object.

EDIT- Just realized what you meant. I still just eyeball it though, I don't feel the need for visual range/distance circles. That's just my opinion though.

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