tangent 3Ds

[alijahed]

Hi All,

 

I have rounded 3D objects and I need to put some of them tangent to each other. I simplify my question by 2 cylinders on the attached drawing. Please don't use the blue grips cause I don't have them in the complicated drawing which I've got. No matter of the position I just want them tangent to and perpendicular to each other.

 

Cheers

 

Ali

Drawing3.dwg

[SEANT]

Coincidently, there is a new RSS Feed here (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39529) that lists the options available for isolating coordinates via object snaps.

 

I was able to position your two cylinders somewhat easily via coordinate filters and the Quadrant osnap. A more challenging problem would be if the cylinders had been rotated such that their quadrants were not aligned with each other. See attachment.

 

Also coincidently, I posted a question Sunday (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39479) with regard to this type of activity. As speculated in that thread, I think the percentage AutoCAD users working in 3D are still fairly small (though probably growing) and have not complained often enough to compel Autodesk to fine tune all aspects of a 3d Workflow.

rotated.dwg

[alijahed]

Coincidently, there is a new RSS Feed here (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39529) that lists the options available for isolating coordinates via object snaps.

 

I was able to position your two cylinders somewhat easily via coordinate filters and the Quadrant osnap. A more challenging problem would be if the cylinders had been rotated such that their quadrants were not aligned with each other. See attachment.

 

Also coincidently, I posted a question Sunday (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=39479) with regard to this type of activity. As speculated in that thread, I think the percentage AutoCAD users working in 3D are still fairly small (though probably growing) and have not complained often enough to compel Autodesk to fine tune all aspects of a 3d Workflow.

 

Thanks for your reply,

I think the geometrical tricks is the only way for solving those kind of problems. however, in some cases I really stuck.

 

back to what you said, 100% agree with you! most of the Autocad users don't work in 3D environment and because of that it has not been developed like the 2D in most cases.

In my opinion instead of visual changes like ribbon menus which is really unuseful for most of the Autocad users (as I saw just one hand up in more than 100 people in one the Autodesk seminars) they should spend time on other fields like 3D, ...

 

Anyway, thanks again and hope they add some features for that.

 

Cheers

 

Ali