Creating a constraint between a circle and a line

Creating a constraint between a circle and a line

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Creating a constraint between a circle and a line

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I am trying to create a label block in a manner that I can stretch the line pointing to the object Take a look at this:Capture.PNG

There are two stretches at the bottom of each lines shown. However, in order for the structure of this block to remain, I need to snap the top / bottom qudrant of each circle to the nearest end of the line. However, whenever I try to use "coincident" constraint, I can only choose CENTRE of the circle.

 

Are there any ways to select edge of the circle instead?

 

 

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JDMather
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Snap Nearest and then add Tangent.

This was covered in video attached here yesterday.

 


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Anonymous
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Tangent isn't what I'm intended to do.

I am trying to connect end of the line with the quadrant in a manner that the line is pointing towards the centre of the circle.

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JDMather
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That was just an example.

You should be able to get virtually any logical constraints.

 

Simply add a construction line from the center of the circle to intersection and then make it Colinear.

 

Colinear.png

After adding the colinear to a horizontally (or vertically in your case) constrained line - it will logically be at the quadrant.


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