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Creating arcs, circles, and ellipses

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Creating arcs, circles, and ellipses

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In this video, we continue to explore the use of Rhino's pre-programmed 2D shapes, and focus on the curvy ones, like arcs, circles, and ellipses. These are just as easy to create as polygons, but these will not explode into individual segments. You should also know, there are a crazy number of options for each of these shapes, but only a few that will make sense for your work. Another quick reminder, all these commands are available in multiple locations, you can find them up on the Curve menu here, a lot of these also appear in the main menu on the side. But we're going to use the Curve Drawing toolbar for now. Let's start off with a basic arc, and zoom in. I've got my Point Snap on, the command is located right here. I'm not going to worry about the size, I'm just going to snap there, just pick two points for that thing to flow around. For the next one, let's be a little more precise and repeat that command and up here there's Arc. Snap to the same point I've got already made, but…

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