Joinning lines/ellipse arcs an
Dear CAD masters,I was looking through the Help for few days how to join line or polylines with ellipse arcs or circle arcs and now.. I give up!
Here is my problem:
What I would like to draw can be compared with a pear: a succession of circle arcs ellipse arcs and maybe polylines. Once the profile done, I was planning to use REVOLVE or (EXTRUDE + FLLET) to finish mydrawing...the problem is that I can't join 2 ellipse arcs from different ellipses (which means neither with a circle arc...)
May be I'm doingthings in the wrong way:(... can anyone help me to find out !
How would you proceed to draw a pear ?
Thanks !!
PS: I'm using autoCAD 2006 z.54.10 version The ellipse can be created as a polyline -check the PELLIPSE system variable. Be sure that the arcs/lines are properly connected end to end. Now you must connect all the lines/arcs into a single polyline. For this use the PEDIT command.
Post again if you need more help.
Welcome in the forum! Thanks !!
That was really helpful
Make sure they have the same z value as well. Thanks for your helpful answer. I'm running into another problem after this. After join all the lines/arcs, I then save it as dxf file and load the file into NC Studio software to run a waterjet machine. For some reasons, about less than 1/4 of an ellipse is missing. Am i doing something wrong? It look fine in Autocad but missing part in NC Studio software.
Please help
Thanks Does your CNC software have a g-code for ellipse? What g-code does it say when it cuts this "1/4 of and ellipse"? (my guess is a g02 or 03 arc) You might have to convert to arcs.
http://www.cncmate.com/ellipse.aspx Thanks for your reply.
I'm not sure how to tell if my software have g-code for ellipse. However, I tryed to use polylines instead of lines to connect to an ellipse after use pellipse command and it worked great. I don't know if it is a software issue or anything else.
Please comment if you have any idea
Thanks So now you know there is a difference in ellipses depending on how you set PELLIPSE.Keep that in mind for the future.
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