About the Arc User Interface in Style
The
Arc tab consists of commands, tabs, and shortcut menus. Click
Style >
Curve >
Arc to open the
Arc tab.
Commands
• 
—Creates a free curve.
• 
—Creates a planar curve.
• 
—Sets the radius of the arc.
• Start box—Sets the start angle of the arc.
• End box—Sets the end angle of the arc.
Tabs
• References
◦ Plane collector—Displays a planar or surface reference for the arc.
▪ Offset—Sets a distance between a planar arc and its reference plane. This parameter becomes external to the Style feature.
◦ Type—Sets the type of radial plane.
▪ Value—Defines a radial plane value. This parameter becomes external to the Style feature.
• Options
◦ Proportional Update check box—Moves the arc free points in proportion to the soft points to maintain the arc shape.
Shortcut Menus
Right-click the graphics window when the Arc tab is open to access shortcut menu commands:
• Plane Collector—Activates the
Plane collector when the
curve type is selected.
• Reference Collector—Activates the
Reference collector when the
curve type is selected.
• Deactivate Collector—Deactivates the currently selected collector.
• Clear—Clears the currently selected collector.
• Free—Changes the curve type to free.
• Planar—Changes the curve type to planar.
• 
Standard Orientation—Displays the model in standard orientation.
• 
Active Plane Orientation—Displays the model with the active datum plane parallel to the screen.
• 
Set Active Plane—Sets the current datum plane as the active plane for geometry creation.
• 
Show All Views—Displays all four views for the model.
• Isolate—Hides the display of all the Style entities except the selected entities.
• 
Show All—Displays all the previously hidden features or Style entities.