AsyJ Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Hello, I made this technical detail. To make an arc I use ''tan, tan, radius'' command. It looks like arc and circle is joined together, but if I move closer as you can see they aren't joined together. So how can I join them? I tried 'join' command but it won't work for me or maybe I don't know how correctly use this commad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvid93 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Hi, the arc and the circle may actually be connected. To see if that is the case: try to zoom in to the place and use the REGEN command. If that doesn't work you can use EXTEND to make the arc connect to the circle. In the EXTEND command you first select the circle and then the arc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 You'll be able to get them to touch each other but you cannot actually "join" them as one might do with the end of an arc to the end of a line. The arc will remain a separate entity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie8974 Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Yes, they can be joined. Right click on one of the status buttons at the lower left of the window. Click on settings when the selection window opens. The Drafting Settings window will open. Click on the Object Snap tab, third button from the left. Click on the intersection check box, at the bottom of the left hand column. Click OK to close the window and activate the Intersection option. Now when the Tan,Tan, Radius is used the arc will join at the correct tangent point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Attach the file here so that others can check. As indicated - it might only be a graphics issue. You might also took into the Parametric Constraints - geometry constraints like Coincident to be absolutely positively sure the end of the arc is coincident with the circle and the arc is tangent with the circle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsyJ Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 Hi, the arc and the circle may actually be connected. To see if that is the case: try to zoom in to the place and use the REGEN command. I use 'REGEN' command and it works. Thank you all for comments - very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 You might set your viewres variable higher - I use 2000, you can go much higher than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 Can you show us Ollie how one joins an arc to a complete circle? When someone uses the word "join" in reference to AutoCAD I assume they mean like in PEDIT > Join. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19cruthik68 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I think we can't join the circle to an arc, in the case of AsyJ, the problem there is the graphics so better to use regen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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