Hide Table of Contents

Continuity Relations for Tangency and Equal Curvature

You can add continuity relations for tangency and equal curvature to certain sketch entities as soon as you finish sketching them on existing geometry.

You add the continuity relations when you select a shared endpoint between two entities using the Constraint pop-up toolbar. The toolbar appears when the following sketch entities terminate on:
  • A line and an arc
  • A style spline and a spline
  • Model edges
  • Conic, parabola and partial ellipse entities

To apply continuity relations:

  1. Open a new sketch. Use the 3 Point Arc tool to sketch an arc.

  2. Click Spline (Sketch toolbar) or Tools > Sketch Entities > Spline. Sketch a spline at some distance away from the arc.

  3. Snap the spline to the arc's endpoint and double click to terminate the spline.

    The Constraint pop-up toolbar displays.

  4. Click Tangent or Equal Curvature from the pop-up toolbar.



Provide feedback on this topic

SOLIDWORKS welcomes your feedback concerning the presentation, accuracy, and thoroughness of the documentation. Use the form below to send your comments and suggestions about this topic directly to our documentation team. The documentation team cannot answer technical support questions. Click here for information about technical support.

* Required

 
*Email:  
Subject:   Feedback on Help Topics
Page:   Continuity Relations for Tangency and Equal Curvature
*Comment:  
*   I acknowledge I have read and I hereby accept the privacy policy under which my Personal Data will be used by Dassault Systèmes

Print Topic

Select the scope of content to print:

x

We have detected you are using a browser version older than Internet Explorer 7. For optimized display, we suggest upgrading your browser to Internet Explorer 7 or newer.

 Never show this message again
x

Web Help Content Version: SOLIDWORKS 2015 SP05

To disable Web help from within SOLIDWORKS and use local help instead, click Help > Use SOLIDWORKS Web Help.

To report problems encountered with the Web help interface and search, contact your local support representative. To provide feedback on individual help topics, use the “Feedback on this topic” link on the individual topic page.