Making Circles, Arcs or Ellipses Concentric



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The Concentric tool enables you to make selected circles, arcs or ellipses concentric to another circle, arc or ellipse.

If none of the entities are constrained, the entities that are selected first move to be concentric with the entity that is selected last.

If entities are constrained, whenever possible, the independent entities will move to be concentric with the constrained entity.

Note: If the original circle / arc / ellipse is not in the current sketch, you must add it to the sketch as a reference entity.

To make circles/arcs/ellipses concentric to a selected circle/arc/ellipse:

  1. Select the Add Constraints icon from the Sketcher toolbar.

The cursor will be a pointer-and-grid symbol.

  1. Click one or more circles/arcs/ellipses that you wish to make concentric to another circle/arc/ellipse.

In the example above, two circles are selected. Both these circles will be concentric to the circle/arc selected last (in step 3).

  1. Click the circle/arc/ellipse to which the entities selected in step 2 will be concentric.

  1. Click the Concentric tool .

The entities selected first (in step 2) move to be concentric with the entity selected last (in step 3).

In the example above, none of the entities were previously constrained. If entities are already constrained, whenever possible, the independent entities will move to be concentric with the constrained entity.

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