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How to draw a circle on a curved suface


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Hi there,

i wants to draw a circle on a cylinder's surface[3D curved surface]. And that circle should be co-planer with the cylindrical surface. Please anyone can suggest about that?

 

Any suggestion will be appreciate .

Thanks in advance,

Provas.

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AutoCAD 2007? Too bad you don't have 2011 or higher then you could use the PROJECTGEOMETRY command. I think all you have is IMPRINT. Not sure if that will work although there might be another way to do it.

 

Can you post an image of exactly what you are working with?

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That is a different problem.

Simply create a curve.

Create a circle.

Sweep the circle on the curve path using the align option.

 

Attach your file here.

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I assume you want something like this.

Create spline (or other patch).

Create circle (or other profile shape).

Sweep, follow the command line options for Align - Yes, when selecting the path and the profile.

If you create a complex profile you might first have to set up the UCS perpendicular to the end of the path with the UCS ZA O options before creating the profile at the beginning of the path.

With a simple circle AutoCAD will do the alignment for you.

 

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i also made this in another way... after draw the spline.. i draw a circle on spline's begining point and extrude that circle into a path[spline]

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