Tangents to ends of ARC

I am new to AC coming from MicroStation and I can understand the "basics":
like getting tangents at the end of an pre-existing arc? It seems like the
tangent snap floats on the arc....

Also, I rotate the view using the DView command/ twist but then ortho is not
ortho anymore - and while I rotated the UCS the same amount: it took 2 days
to figure out I was not hitting my EaglePoint surfaces anymore...and
switched back the UCS...

Any help?

Sabin

 

Draw a line from the arc's center point to the arc end, then rotate the line 90° about the end point.

 

Use snapangel to reset your Ortho or use the attached lsp.

Allen

 

Sabin,

IIUYC, one way to do this would be to use the command line
command: -UCS/Object and then select the end of the arc you're needing to
draw lines tangent to (Ortho ON).

Use: -UCS/Previous to return to what it was before.

hth,
David Kozina

 

Oops - I guess the command line UCS command is still just: UCS (and
not -UCS)
(and also note that the oBject option (B to access) does not display on the
command line.)

hth,
David Kozina

 

David
At least in 2005 the command would be UCS, then OB for object. B will not
work. And if you use UCS, N, you will see the list of other available
options, one of which is OBject.

Kent

 

Kent,

Thanks for the clarifications on this.

I personally don't use the OOTB UCS function much - so I get sort of rusty
on the exact syntax in my mad rush to post -- basically, I knew it was in
there, but one'l usually have to root around a bit to decypher my comments.


At any rate, as I hope many do, I have a custom set of command abbrevation
macros that generally handle stuff like this... UB on my machine calls UCS
with the OBbject suboption.

Best regards,
David Kozina