Hi Asif ... The yellow circle is generated by Camtasia ... The screen grabbing software I make my videos with - it's not an AutoCAD feature. You can make the cross hairs bigger and yellow in autocad - but no big circle.
Do you know how to create a polyline using a series of whole number radii curves? As in a polyline with an R10ft arc connected to a R75ft arc connected to a R63ft arc?
Hi. There's a radius option in the polyline command but if you are trying to get a smooth tangential type transition then there is only 'perfect position' and that is pretty much impossible to select 'by eye'. There will be a kink, might be small but it's still a kink. Play around with it you'll see what I mean. What are you trying to draw?
@@emmockladdie Thanks for the QUICK response! I am a Landscape Architect and many of my designs have curved sidewalks or other curved site elements. I wish to be able to create these using whole number radii . . . so lots of curves that are tangential! But whole numbers are easier for contractor to install
Use small portions of straight line and then using the FILLET command with your whole number radius is often the way I work. If you do that it's best to use regular lines as polylines often refuse to fillet. Use PEDIT after to join the portions together. Then you can offset for your kerb width, etc. Road kerbs in UK are supplied in fixed radii, 3000, 4500, 6000, etc. Another possible way is to roughly draw the polyline with curves by eye, then explode it and then try replacing the rough radii with fillets of your set sizes.
If drawing splines is this tedious, we should question our expectations of the software. If such fundamental tasks are so laboured, then this really is a cumbersome and inefficient tool. I know AutoCAD has been around for decades and is entrenched in the workflows of many, but really, in this day and age, for something SO elementary to be SO convoluted is... frankly bizarre, and not clever. We users of AutoCAD must question our reliance on this antiquated software and demand more user friendly and efficient workflows in our lives; there is no need for this, other than the inertia of a status que that values user dependency over user appreciation.
Hi - if you click on the polyline the 'shared' endpoint will appear - you can click on that (it will go red) and you can move it - this will adjust both curves and it's done 'by eye'. More sophisticated way is to use the Spline CV command to generate your curves and then you can BLEND them. Polylines with curves are a simpler object. You could try filleting your two curves with a radius - if it's possible mathematically it can work well and keeps your original curves with their original radii..
