So what about drawing a circle, that should be hard to mess up, right? .... right ?

I’m like ok I want to draw a circle of radius 5.

So I put down the XY point and I think ok if I type 5 and push Enter it should do it, right?

NOPE, typing 5 does nothing and (in recent builds) the Enter finishes the circle at whatever random radius your mouse happened to be at.

After messing around a bit I managed to figure out to push Tab first.

So I think OK, I just learned that I should push Tab to do numeric inputs. I don’t really like it, I mean I’d rather just type 5 with no Tab but maybe it works in a bigger context with other tools involved.

So I draw a new circle and I want to input XY numeric coordinates for the center point this time so I push Tab.

NOPE, nothing happens with Tab there, as far as I can tell there is not any way to give the x,y center coordinates.

So I think, what about commands with a distance or radius value, they must use Tab to go to that field, right?

NOPE, run the Extrude command and type Tab, nothing happens, type 5 – it switches on all pick modes up here:



Type Enter and it exits the command.

- Michael