How do I complete this? (2)

[Mike G]

Hello, it's me again

I'm having another little problem.



How do I complete this line? I tried doing it with the ellips tool but that didn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[MSasu]

The screen shot is what you have drawn so far? Are you looking to draw a line between those red points? Is the outside shape an ellipse or a circle?
If the above are correct, then: to locate the top point use either Intersect or Quadrant Osnap mode; for bottom one End mode.

[Mike G]

it need to be something like this:



Everything that you see are circles, except the line i'm searching. It needs to be a trimmed elliptical line or something.

[MSasu]

Don’t you have an imposed geometry for that part? Is this an exercise that you have to complete or you are just playing with AutoCAD?

cercuri.gif

You can draw a curve there by either using (1) the ELLIPSE command and indicating the points in the order noted below, use TRIM to remove un-wanted parts or (1) by an arc with first end in point 1, middle point in an arbitrary location and finished in point 2.

[ReMark]

You could try the CIRCLE command with the Tan-Tan-Radius option and trim away what you don't need.

[SEANT]

Several entity types could be made to intersect those points. If tangency was required at all three, though, then the simplest would be a hyperbolic arc. The arc attached was drawn as a Degree 2 spline.

[Mike G]

The spline it is
Thanks seant, you did it again.