Tangent lines

nuclearmoose

Given that SU doesn't draw a true "circle", I'm confused as to how to draw tangent lines between two circles or two arcs. I'm doing some design work on wood toys, and I have to admit I'm flustered about drawing simple arcs to illustrate rounded corners. All of my planning and design work is done in 2D at the moment.

massimo

Take a look at this thread nuclearmoose.

Jean Lemire

Hi folks.

Alternatively, you can use pure SU without any plugin.

I already answered a question similar to this one in the past with the following procedure:

1 - Use a geometry book. If not available or do not contains this information, search the web with the string "line tangent to two circles".

2 - When you find a page with an explanation like the first one returned by Google at

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Geometry/TangentTwoCirclesI.shtml#explanation

Reproduce the steps using SU.

Just ideas.

TIG

My TrueTangent Tools do indeed repeat the manual steps set out as Jean describes... They just do it easier for you...