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Title: How to make an arc that follows part of an ellipse?
Post by: Jennifer on June 12, 2019, 04:38:54 PM

I want to show how two ellipses overlap by having a dotted line on the one on top follow the edge of the one on the bottom.

I tried drawing both a line and an arc across the portion of the ellipse that goes under the top ellipse and then using the pencil tool, drag the middle point out. But the radius is not quite right.

Is there a better way?

Title: Re: How to make an arc that follows part of an ellipse?
Post by: wapperdude on June 12, 2019, 06:53:01 PM

This might be of interest...uses points along path.

Title: Re: How to make an arc that follows part of an ellipse?
Post by: RudySchneider on June 12, 2019, 09:29:40 PM

This is actually a bit of work, but easily doable. The attached file includes instructions.

Title: Re: How to make an arc that follows part of an ellipse?
Post by: vojo on June 13, 2019, 04:36:26 AM

or see the response to Jennifer's post
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