Creating & Measuring a circle on a cylinder, to find its angle to a plane.

Easiest way I found, but have to follow directions close. If you open up auto circle, click on the circle you want to measure. Don't click create though. Now if you are looking straight down at the circle you created, put the cursor on one of your hit points that is neither the beginning nor the end point. hold and drag that point one way or another just a little bit. This puts the circle into a more custom mode. You can now turn your CAD so you are looking at the cylinder ALMOST sideways. From there you can drag any of the points up and down in the depth direction to put them where you need them. Hope that makes sense. Otherwise you would need to turn on the "show hits" toggle at the end of your auto circle code and edit each point individually. this also works for cylinder. Not sure how thick the pipe walls are but if they don't have much of a wall surface, be prepared to have a lot of variation in your angle.

Edit: Actually doesn't work with cylinders, you'd have to measure two separate circles and construct a cylinder.

Easiest way I found, but have to follow directions close. If you open up auto circle, click on the circle you want to measure. Don't click create though. Now if you are looking straight down at the circle you created, put the cursor on one of your hit points that is neither the beginning nor the end point. hold and drag that point one way or another just a little bit. This puts the circle into a more custom mode. You can now turn your CAD so you are looking at the cylinder ALMOST sideways. From there you can drag any of the points up and down in the depth direction to put them where you need them. Hope that makes sense. Otherwise you would need to turn on the "show hits" toggle at the end of your auto circle code and edit each point individually. this also works for cylinder. Not sure how thick the pipe walls are but if they don't have much of a wall surface, be prepared to have a lot of variation in your angle.

Edit: Actually doesn't work with cylinders, you'd have to measure two separate circles and construct a cylinder.

Ive tried this, if im understanding you.
I made to half circles, each side on from the parts hole, to make a line from each circle, didn't come out right, i'll try the construct cylinder, but i think it will come out with the same outcome...

Its hard to explain on here. I actually had a video posted here showing how to measure a circle with points at multiple levels without editing each individual point in the code.