How to create an elliptical arc?

[billoverman]

I'm trying to create a series of connected elliptical arcs.

SketchEllipticalArcs would seem a natural place to start. However unlike SketchCircles, SketchLines, etc. SketchEllipticalArcs provides only read-only properties; that is, there are no "add..." methods on SketchEllipticalArcs.

The only way I've found so far, is to create an Ellipse (with SketchEllipses.add) and then use SketchEllipse.trim/split to try to get the proper arc segment.

I think I could get this to work with some work, but it feels extremely kludgy.

Is there a more elegant solution?

Bill

[ekinsb · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, what you've found is currently the only way to do it.  This is the same as in the user-interface, although I hope to support it in the API in the future.

[Anonymous]

Hi, is this still the case, no way to create an elliptical arc other than creating an ellipse and trimming it with two lines?

Pete.

[BrianEkins]

Still no change.