dimensioning / measuring ellipse part

[Anonymous]

Hi friends,
May be it's easy but i couldn't find the solution.
How do you measure the part of an ellipse?
Is there any tool for dimensioning?

[Anonymous]

ogabson wrote:
How do you measure the part of an ellipse?

Hi Ogabson,

Select your ellipse, go to Window > Palettes > Element Information and click on the "Element's Size" button (2nd one from the left).

Hope that helps,
Adrian Tudoreanu

[Anonymous]

Oh Thank you very much Adrian,

Thats the tool that i've been searching.

Thanks again,
Ogabson

[Steve Jepson]

you may also be able to dimension a segment of an ellipse using arc length dimensions.


By null at 2010-08-02

I don't think you can dimension an ellipse.

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:
you may also be able to dimension a segment of an ellipse using arc length dimensions.

I can't seem to be able to do that (AC12). Maybe AC14 makes the difference here?

[Anonymous]

Steve wrote:
you may also be able to dimension a segment of an ellipse using arc length dimensions.


By null at 2010-08-02

I don't think you can dimension an ellipse.

This is an "arc" not part of an ellipse. So there isn't a tool for dimensioning ellipse part or whole ellipse.

Adrian this is impossible in AC 14 too.

[Steve Jepson]

like i said. you may be able to dimension a segment of an ellipse.


By null at 2010-08-02


Some segments of an ellipse could also be a segment of some circle.
If you draw that segment using the circle tool you can dimension it.
If you draw that same segment as part of an ellipse you can not dimension it.

[Anonymous]

Thank you Steve,

Now it's ok

I think using ellipse tool makes the shape unmeasurable because it's allgoritm.