Tangent tool

[Marietta]

I am still getting problems using the tangent tool when I try to draw a line tangent from an arc. The tangent tool works fine when I draw a line to an arc - the smart cursors let me know when I am tangent. But going the other way, the line just starts where I point to an arc and does not travel along the arc at a tangent to where you want to draw the line. For me the tangent tool only works properly about 25% of the time.

[Guest]

Marietta,

This work much better with full circles than with arcs. I will submit this into our bug system.

[P Retondo]

Not so fast! I for one find it useful that the tangent constraint works differently with arcs and circles. With circles, you can't set a particular point on a circle as a starting point and get a tangential constraint - the starting point keeps moving around. That is useful if you have a target point outside the circle, but not if your given is the point ON the arc.

[Marietta]

Just to make sure, I also like the tangent tool to move around the arc so that you can make a line tangent to any point along the arc while starting at the arc. This way you can join a line tangent to the arc to a line that is already drawn or given.