How do you constrain the angle of a sketched ellipse?
How do you constrain the angle of a sketched ellipse?
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Simple task:
Make an elliptical boss.
I've sketched an ellipse, but there appears to be now way of setting the angle of the major axis.
If I draw a construction line then there's no way of fixing it to the quadrants of the ellipse.
So I split the ellipse into 2, with a construction line down the middle. Constraining this has proved to be very fiddly - almost impossible to select the centre point of the ellipse for example, it keeps snapping to the construction line. Very difficult to select the end points of the ellipse to make them touch. You can't apply a "point" selection filter, so you have to hover over the end of the lines hoping it will select the point.
So, what's the recommended way of doing this then?
Make an elliptical boss.
I've sketched an ellipse, but there appears to be now way of setting the angle of the major axis.
If I draw a construction line then there's no way of fixing it to the quadrants of the ellipse.
So I split the ellipse into 2, with a construction line down the middle. Constraining this has proved to be very fiddly - almost impossible to select the centre point of the ellipse for example, it keeps snapping to the construction line. Very difficult to select the end points of the ellipse to make them touch. You can't apply a "point" selection filter, so you have to hover over the end of the lines hoping it will select the point.
So, what's the recommended way of doing this then?





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