About the Arc User Interface in Style
The Arc tab consists of commands, tabs, and shortcut menus. Click > > to open the Arc tab.
Commands
• Type
◦ Free Curve—Creates a free curve.
◦ Planar Curve—Creates a planar curve.
• Sizes
◦ Radius—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.
▪ —Exports the parameter value to edit outside of Style.
◦ Radial Plane
▪ Type—Sets the placement method for a radial plane along the reference.
▪ Value—Defines a radial plane value.
▪ —Exports the parameter value to edit outside of Style.
◦ Symmetry
▪ Symmetrical Curve check box—Creates an arc that is symmetric and continuous on both sides of a datum plane, for free and planar arcs.
▪ Plane collector—Defines the symmetry plane for the symmetric arc.
• 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
Free Curve curve type is selected.
• Reference Collector—Activates the
Reference collector when the
Planar Curve 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.
• Show Only—Hides the display of all the Style entities except the selected entities.
• Show All—Displays all the previously hidden features or Style entities.