Join four Arcs

[Cristiano Alves]

Hello, 

I draw one arc and apply a mirror on X and Y.

 

My objective is to get a polygon/surface with these 4 arcs:


How I can get this?
 

[Pat Stanford]

How about the Paint Bucket (Inner Boundary Mode) of the 2D Polygon tool?

[Cristiano Alves]

9 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

How about the Paint Bucket (Inner Boundary Mode) of the 2D Polygon tool?

Humm I tried but the results are strange:
(And I need to delete the red cones too)

 

In my experience with other modelling software, I have a tool "TRIM" to delete the lines that I don't want.
On Vectorworks, I didn't find the correct workflow yet.





For example another question:
If I want to extrude a triangle

 

I can't because I can't convert the triangle lines to a shape. How I can make it?
 

[Tom W.]

1 hour ago, Cristiano Alves said:

I can't because I can't convert the triangle lines to a shape. How I can make it?

 

Modify > Compose will turn the three lines into a Polygon

[Tom W.]

11 hours ago, Cristiano Alves said:

Hello, 

I draw one arc and apply a mirror on X and Y.

 

My objective is to get a polygon/surface with these 4 arcs:


How I can get this?
 

 

I think you can use Compose on this too.

[Elite Exhibits]

FYI

 

Compose should work - Make sure the end points touch exactly - arcs are often on bad behavior in VW

 

Peter

 

 

[Tom W.]

Actually looking again at the screenshots they don't look like actual Arcs, they look like Polygons. In which case it might be a matter of Decomposing all four objects, deleting the unwanted lines then composing the 'arcs'...

[Cristiano Alves]

5 hours ago, Tom W. said:

Actually looking again at the screenshots they don't look like actual Arcs, they look like Polygons. In which case it might be a matter of Decomposing all four objects, deleting the unwanted lines then composing the 'arcs'...

It isn't necessary to use "decompose", compose makes what all I want.

However, thank you for speaking to me about the Decomposer. I never used that before and after I tested Decompose realised that it is a significant feature too.

 

[mike m oz]

Pat Stanford's suggestion is the easiest way to do it.

 

If the arc ends intersect the paint bucket mode of the polygon tool works.

 

[mike m oz]

13 hours ago, Cristiano Alves said:

If I want to extrude a triangle

If you draw a triangle using the Triangle tool then both the Extrude command and the Push/Pull tool can be used to give it a third dimension.