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Use the Sheet Metal Circle tool to draw circles in sheet metal.
Rectangles, circles, polygons, and ellipses are automatically extruded to the thickness of a sheet metal wall as you sketch. You can change the default wall thickness in the sheet metal properties.
In addition, you can choose the Profile
option to create a wall that is perpendicular to the sketch plane as you sketch.
Click on the Sheet Metal tab.
Click 
Circle in the Sketch group or press C.
(Optional) Click the Profile option if you want to create walls as you sketch.
Click to set the circle’s center.
You can dimension the points relative to other sketch objects.
The circle will snap to existing sketches or determined circles and arcs in the plane of the sketch.
If you sketch two circles that are tangent to each other, and then change the diameter of one circle by editing its dimension, tangency with the other circle is maintained.
If you drag the center of a circle that is tangent to another circle, the radius of the other circle changes to maintain tangency.
The following Sheet Metal sketch options allow you to choose between sketching a flat wall or a wall that is perpendicular to the sketch plane:
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When sketching an open profile (series of lines), a perpendicular wall is created. When sketching a closed profile (square, circle, etc.), a flat wall is created. |
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Any closed sketch creates a flat wall. |
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When sketching an open profile (series of lines), a perpendicular wall is created. |
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Use the starting location of the sketch to determine whether the inside or the outside of the sheet is maintained when bending. |
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Maintains the length of the sheet's inside surface when bending. |
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Maintains the length of the sheet's outside surface when bending. |
The following options are available for every sketch tool:
Cartesian dimensions: Select a point in a sketch and then click this option to see Cartesian dimensions from the point. Cartesian dimensions show you the X and Y distances from the point you select. If you don't have a point selected, it shows you the X and Y distances from the origin.
Polar dimensions: Select a point in a sketch and then click this option to see Polar dimensions from the point. Polar dimensions show you an angle and a distance from the point you select. If you don't have a point selected, it shows you the angle and distance from the origin.
Snap to grid: Select this option turn snapping on or off while sketching. The cursor will snap to the minor grid spacing increment while you sketch. The defaults are 1mm for Metric and 0.125in for Imperial units. See Units options to change the minor grid spacing.
Snap to angle: Select this option to turn angle snapping on or off while sketching. The cursor will snap to the angular snap increment while you sketch. The default is 15 degrees. See Snap options to change the angular increment used for snapping.
Create layout curves: The sketch curves are created as layout curves. If you move the design to a drawing sheet, with Sketch mode selected you must select the Create layout curves checkbox again in the Sketch Options group of the Options panel in order to create layout curves on the drawing sheet. See Layout Curves.
Curve Fitter Options: If the Sketch plane passes through a Mesh object, the system will fit curves through the facet points. Lines are displayed green and arcs are displayed blue. The following options apply to the system-generated curves.
Fit curves - Uncheck this option if you do not want the system to fit curves through the points.
Tolerance - Determines how many points will be found, which also determines how many curves will be created. The smaller the tolerance, the more points will be found and the curves will be generated.
Auto-merge - When checked On, the system will merge linesd and arcs to form splines. Splines are displayed pink.
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