topic Re: fill for ellipse in Modeling

fill for ellipse

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 00:16:02 GMT

I want to fill the ellipse with a solid fill but when I fill/spacebar on the ellipse, the fill turned out to be round instead of filling the ellipse. Am I missing something?

please help.

ac7

Re: fill for ellipse

Djordje — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 16:57:07 GMT

lsid wrote:
I want to fill the ellipse with a solid fill but when I fill/spacebar on the ellipse, the fill turned out to be round instead of filling the ellipse. Am I missing something?

Do you maybe have a circle within the ellipse?

Be sure to place the Magic wand on the ellipse's edge when clicking.

Re: fill for ellipse

SeaGeoff — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 19:20:13 GMT

You must admit that that lack of circular and elliptical fills is a glaring omission within the drafting tool set.

Re: fill for ellipse

Djordje — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:34:23 GMT

Geoff wrote:
You must admit that that lack of circular and elliptical fills is a glaring omission within the drafting tool set.

You can draw a circular now. Not starting from the center, though ...

Re: fill for ellipse

Erika Epstein — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:57:06 GMT

I have noticed the circular fill in the elipse before. It has usually been occurred when I am working in a very small elipse,which judging by the stud to its left, is the case here. Even if this detail is 3" = 1'-0", (large for imperail dimensions), you porbably won't notice it.

If I am not mistaken,the differnece is caused by the tolernces set for the magic wand. The lenght of the arc segments is longer than the angle of the line between the middle of the right side and the topmost point.
Ask yourself,
Will you notice the difference when printed?
If the answer is yes, then you can add node(s) to points along the fill and then adjust the fill to the elipse more fully.
If no....then don't worry about it.

Re: fill for ellipse

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:07:21 GMT

Erika wrote:
I have noticed the circular fill in the elipse before. It has usually been occurred when I am working in a very small elipse,which judging by the stud to its left, is the case here. Even if this detail is 3" = 1'-0", (large for imperail dimensions), you porbably won't notice it.

If I am not mistaken,the differnece is caused by the tolernces set for the magic wand. The lenght of the arc segments is longer than the angle of the line between the middle of the right side and the topmost point.
Ask yourself,
Will you notice the difference when printed?
If the answer is yes, then you can add node(s) to points along the fill and then adjust the fill to the elipse more fully.
If no....then don't worry about it.

thanks..where can i set the tolerance for the magic wand?
what i did in order to get the drawing printed, i used the polygon to draw over the ellipse to be filled. it is so time consuming!

Re: fill for ellipse

Erika Epstein — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:48:41 GMT

Under Tools, Magic Wand Settings

Re: fill for ellipse

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:09:37 GMT

Really interesting point, this is still valid!