Using the Entities Class entities.add_arc
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Hello Sketch Up community,
I have run into a problem while trying to write code to create an arc.
I do not understand what one of the arguments that this function uses does.
normal
A Vector3d object representing normal for the arc.What is a normal and can somebody give me an example?
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@tinhnguyen20 said:
What is a normal and can somebody give me an example?
The vector perpendicular to and pointing away from the front of the object's plane.
See Wikipedia: Surface Normal
from which comes this image:

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