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FS#1040Break out Manual on Circle/Ellipse does not respect Remove Segment setting

Type
Bug
Status
Closed
Resolution
Not a bug
Category
Documentation
Severity
Low
Priority
Low
Reported version
3.4.7
Operating system
All
Reported
2014-04-12 by kazmer
Closed
2014-07-15 by andrew

3.4.7 trial as well as community Git 9d3979

  • Draw a circle
  • B2
  • Make sure "Remove segment" is ticked
  • Select circle, then select two points to break out in between

Expected:

  • Segment gets removed (not really, but read on)

Actual:

  • Segment does not get removed, but circle is indeed broken into two arcs

Same for an ellipse.

I can see that by selecting two points on a closed circular shape it's nigh impossible to tell which segment the user actually wants to remove :)

The documentation doesn't mention this corner case. For clarity, a note detailing this effect a bit should be added to the docs.

On a slightly related note, I do not see why the feature couldn't work on Polyline objects as well (with the same corner case restriction if it's a closed polyline).

Very useful feature btw, thanks for it.

Comments (1)

deleted user 2014-04-12

This works as expected for me.

The final stage asks the user in the status bar to 'click the part of the circle or ellipse to remove', works no problem!