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Old June 28th, 2006, 02:32 AM
Harmison Harmison is offline
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Default How to create 3D arc/elipse between coordinates

I am just curious that whether there is a way to make a circle or ellipse between coordinates that are not parallel in UCS. I'm using autodesk map 2005 but have also access to Autocad 2005.
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Old June 28th, 2006, 08:01 PM
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I don’t think that you can create a circle that is not parallel to the plane of the current UCS. You will have to create a new UCS and then create the circle.
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Old July 6th, 2006, 09:16 PM
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I have 4 coordinates which is not in parallel (measured with total station on site) and it is not quite a circle, more like ellipse.
So how do I draw an oval (circle/arc like) line in 3D, or between these 4 points that i've taken from the total station.
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Old July 7th, 2006, 01:19 AM
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One way to do this is to approximate the arc with chord segments using a 3d polyline. Some 3rd party software reduces survey data in this maner.
You can find a very useful utility from the below site:
It appears 3dutil.cip at http://www.cadresource.com/library/lisp0a.html
may be what you are looking for.
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Old July 7th, 2006, 09:58 AM
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You can use the points to make a new ucs, then use the points to create a 3 point circle.
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