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Kent1Cooper
en respuesta a: Anonymous


@Anonymous wrote:

.... I realized that what I wanted was impossible with an arc (circular).  Instead, I need an elliptical arc to get the general shape I want ...but then I ran into the next issue.  Elliptical arcs can't be converted to polylines with the pedit command.  When I set the PELLIPSE system variable to 1, the ellipse command changes and I lose the option to create elliptical arcs instead of full ellipses.  Is there a way around this?  ....


 

You can make a PELLIPSE=1 Ellipse and then use any of several possibilities to remove the part of it you don't want -- TRIM, or BREAK, or PEDIT's Edit-vertex option with the Break sub-option.  If you do these always in the same kind of orientation, so that the start points of the Polyline ellipses are always in the same relationship to the overall picture, then where to specify the break points, or where to pick on it in a TRIM command if the little Circles are already there to use as cutting boundaries, could be built in via the resulting Polyline's vertex parameter values.

Kent Cooper, AIA