Possible to change circle default from radius to diameter?

[BlackBowtie]

When you go to draw a circle, you know it defaults to radius. Why is beyond me - very rarely do I draw a circle according to it's radius. I was wondering if there was someway to change that.

I would rather it default to diameter - is there anyway to make it do so?

Thanks in advance. I have a feeling I already know the answer.

 

[Hawkeye2]

Create a toolbar button and use the macro ^C^C_circle\_d.

 

[BlackBowtie]

Thanks Hawkeye...that works (just had to enter a space bewtween the _circle and \d.

But it sparked another idea...just remove the circle command out of my .pgp and create a lisp routine for it...
(CV is my circle command)...
;CIRCLE WITH DIA.
;INVOKES CIRCLE COMMAND WITH DIA DEFAULT
(defun c:cv ()
(command "circle" pause "d" pause))

Works just the same.

 

[Hawkeye2]

Okay! Sorry about the missing space. One thing I like about AutoCAD is that it allows for doing the same thing a number of different ways.

 

[Ralph2]

Why not replace the button with the one that does diameters. From tools>customize>toolbars>commands>draw.... then pick and drag the centercenterdiameter to the draw tool bar. There are others circle options you may want to use as well)
Good Luck
Ralph

 

[BlackBowtie]

Well - I don't use the buttons a whole lot for common commands - so having it on the keyboard is really all I need.

Thanks for the tip though - I hadn't though of that.