Drawing circles, tan tan tan and/or tan tan radius

[Waldo]

Hello all,

I am wanting to draw a circle that is tangent between three arcs. I know I can do this if the circle is tangent between three straight lines, but I can not seem to do this between three arcs. I know this is possible in AutoCAD. Is it possible in Vectorworks? If not, can someone mention to the higher ups to make this possible.

Thanks

[Craig D.S.]

Waldo

This is one that I can answer.

one would need to

1 draw a line(1) center to center of the 3 circles

2 and then another line from center of circle to midpoint of the opposing large tangent line(1)

3 draw lines(3) from the intersection of the outside lines (1) with the circles

3 move or copy line(3) out to and snap to the intersection of lines (2&3)

draw circle tan to those last 3 lines

Like the attached

HTH