Does anyone know how to make semicircles easily in the Vector editor? In bitmap I just used the cropping tool thing to crop and delete half of a circle. I don't see anything in the Vector Paint editor that can do this. Please help.

I would probably just join a straight line to a curve. You could draw a reference semi-circle in bitmap to work from.

Here is one way.
Draw a circle. Notice it has 8 points.
Draw a line through the middle of the circle. It should pass through two points.
Now there are three points of the circle on each side of the line which passes through the remaining two points.
Use the reshape tool to pull three points down until they touch the line.
Notice it's still not a semicircle. Next step does the trick.
Leave the middle point alone, but slide the two outer points of the three so that they are on top of the two points on the line.
Now you have a perfect semicircle.

footsocktoe wrote:

Here is one way.
Draw a circle. Notice it has 8 points.
Draw a line through the middle of the circle. It should pass through two points.
Now there are three points of the circle on each side of the line which passes through the remaining two points.
Use the reshape tool to pull three points down until they touch the line.
Notice it's still not a semicircle. Next step does the trick.
Leave the middle point alone, but slide the two outer points of the three so that they are on top of the two points on the line.
Now you have a perfect semicircle.

Thanks.

footsocktoe wrote:

Here is one way.
Draw a circle. Notice it has 8 points.
Draw a line through the middle of the circle. It should pass through two points.
Now there are three points of the circle on each side of the line which passes through the remaining two points.
Use the reshape tool to pull three points down until they touch the line.
Notice it's still not a semicircle. Next step does the trick.
Leave the middle point alone, but slide the two outer points of the three so that they are on top of the two points on the line.
Now you have a perfect semicircle.

but how do you do it in vector???

epiclyepicepic, here is the same thing but with extra detail.

1. Draw a circle.
2. Select the reshape tool and click on the circle from step 1. The circle will have 8 small dots around the edge.
3. Draw a line from one point (the dot) of the circle to the opposite point.
4. Now there are three points of the circle on each side of the line which passes through the two points.
5. Use the reshape tool to pull three points down until they touch the line.
6. Delete the line you made.
7. Leave the middle point alone, but slide the two outer points to the dots on which you originally drew the line on.
8. Now you have a perfect semicircle!

Hope it helps

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