Construction a Golden Rectangle

**Acorn** · 20 November 2018, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Marco D

Yes the math is the same but this was an attempt to adress the snapping problem, you mentioned there.

Macro, thank you for the clarification.

I don't, however, see any snapping that stops on the top right corner.

Acorn

**ss-kalm** · 20 November 2018, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

... I don't, however, see any snapping that stops on the top right corner ...

You don't need to snap that corner, you can use magnetic alignment. As far as I'm aware, the only snapping issue originally, was the centre of the bottom of your red square, which Marco has solved.

**Marco D** · 20 November 2018, 05:29 PM

While drawing the circle (radius creation option) you can snap from the corner of the first to the corner of the second rectangle.
I thought that the problem in your construction was finding the center of the base of the square, but I now seen that you can easely snap there too, so it was already ok that way...

Marco.

**ss-kalm** · 20 November 2018, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Marco D

... but I now seen that you can easily snap there too ...

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any way to snap to the centre of the base of the square - at least not accurately.

**Marco D** · 20 November 2018, 05:47 PM

If you draw the circle and then you move it, you can snap the center of the circle with the center of the square base. After that (selecting the circle tool and holding the shift key) you can resize the circle to hit the square corner. That done, the only thing to do is to resize the square clicking on the right side handle until you reach the snap point at the circle.

Marco.

**Acorn** · 20 November 2018, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by Marco D

...you can resize the circle to hit the square corner...

Sorry Marco, this is the step that doesn't have an exact snap point.

Acorn

**Marco D** · 22 November 2018, 04:30 PM

Originally Posted by Acorn

Sorry Marco, this is the step that doesn't have an exact snap point.

Acorn

If you resize the circle while in the circle tool, you can select a control point on the circonference and drag it to the corner of the square pressing shift to preserve the aspect ratio.

**Acorn** · 22 November 2018, 04:40 PM

Originally Posted by Marco D

If you resize the circle while in the circle tool, you can select a control point on the circonference and drag it to the corner of the square pressing shift to preserve the aspect ratio.

Thank you Marco, you have made me very happy.

I had never thought of resizing with the Circle tool and a control point this way before.

Acorn