Subject: Drawing a polyline with arc segments

With the Draw Arcs option, you can continually draw arc segments until you select the Draw Lines option to go back to drawing line segments. When you draw arc seg­ments, the first point of the arc is the endpoint of the previous segment. By default, you draw arc segments by specifying the endpoint of each segment. Each successive arc segment is drawn tangent to the previous arc or line segment. If you choose Close while in the Draw Arcs option, the closing segment is created as an arc.

You can also specify the arc using any of the following methods:

   Start point, included angle, center point

   Start point, included angle, radius

   Start point, center point, endpoint

   Start point, included angle, endpoint

   Start point, center point, included angle

   Start point, center point, chord length

   Start point, direction, endpoint

   Start point, radius, included angle

   Start point, second point, endpoint

To draw a line segment followed by an arc polyline segment

   1   Do one of the following to choose Polyline ():

   On the ribbon, choose Home > Polyline or choose Draw > Polyline.

   On the menu, choose Draw > Polyline.

   On the Draw toolbar, click the Polyline tool.

   Type polyline and then press Enter.

   2   Specify the start point.

   3   Specify the endpoint.

   4   In the prompt box, choose Draw Arcs.

   5   Specify the endpoint of the arc segment.

   6   To complete the command, choose Done.

 

Polyline start point (A), line endpoint/arc start point (B), and arc endpoint (C).

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