Any-plane Arc!

[fahim108]

I just invented a tweaky way of forming an arc with any 3 given points (in any plane)... check it out! 8)

http://www.cadimage.net/postimages/fahim108_trick_01.gif

The grey rectangle is in the XY plane (for reference). The required arc must pass through the points A, B and C (highlighted with a darker inclined plane). Join these points by lines. (say AB and BC, any two lines would do!) :huh:

http://www.cadimage.net/postimages/fahim108_trick_02.gif

FILLET the couple formed with any radius... :)

http://www.cadimage.net/postimages/fahim108_trick_03.gif

BOOM... there forms the skeletel arc! :shock:

http://www.cadimage.net/postimages/fahim108_trick_04.gif

Highlight it, drag the point D to B. Done :wink:

http://www.cadimage.net/postimages/fahim108_trick_05.gif

Greetings!! :D

[WagglyFawn]

Ok so here's the next step... make that arc so it can be CURVING in any plane :D

[fahim108]

:? you serious!! :P

[WagglyFawn]

Haha, hardly... but I've never touched 2007 so I'm not sure what it's capable of. Anyways, it's no longer an arc once you start bending it like that :P