Drawing arcs

You can use six methods to draw arcs. You can draw:

• Arcs by edges
• Arcs by BEH
• Arcs by BEC
• Arcs by BCE
• Arcs by CBE
• Tangent arcs

Notes

• To set arc attributes during drawing, enter a value in the respective contextual edit bar. You can modify arc attributes later, so that new conditions are reflected.
• During drawing or repositioning an arc, when you enter a value in one of the edit boxes (Radius or Angle while drawing all arc types except for Chord, Angle or H for the Arc by BEH mode, or Dx or Dy while repositioning) in the contextual edit bar, and then you move to the next edit box, the program limits the scope of the arc preview according to the specified value. Consider the following example:

If you place the first two points of an Arc by Edges, enter a value of 60 degrees for Angle and press TAB to move to the Radius edit box, when you use the mouse to define the location of the end point, EngView will allow you only to move the mouse pointer so that the defined 60-degree angle is kept. You can override any previously defined distance value in all edit boxes except Radius, in order to drag the object preview freely, in the respective edit box (Dx or Dy, respectively Chord or H, but not Angle) and enter 0.00), and then press TAB to move to the next edit box.

NOTE: The zero-value rule applies to distance values.