I need to draw a 45° ellipse, the X (outside) being 2". There will be an inside ellipse, and it will be .075" thick. In short, a ring. Following SketchUp’s instructions, I drew the circle, then used the scale tool, but I only get a handle on the lower left. and no indication of the angle. Where am I…

CADtutor ellipse 45 [eli-03] CADforum ellipse 45 [eli-02]

Having watched mihal.s’ solution it trigerred a deep memory back to my engineering drawing lessons at school circa 1970 when we were forced to draw ellipses according to a vertical scale which is here; 5°= 10% vertical scale. 10° = 18% vertical scale. 15° = 26% vertical scale. 20° = 34% vertical…

I knew that once, too. Notsure I’ve ever needed to model an ellipse defined that way but a good thing to try to remember for the future.

Yet another item from my drafting museum: [image]

Speaking of the drafting museum, I have one of those green plastic templates. Great for drawing an ellipse on paper or plastic, but cutting it on plastic with any reasonable accuracy is another story. The ring is going to be 3D printed and used on a scale model of a sign on a building, so a better d…

Fine, but I’m not getting the six handles on the drawing, just one. Any idea where I’m going wrong?

Sounds like you are using the wrong tool, can you give us a screenshot of what you see.

Here’s another option. [Elipse] I’ve changed the gif as the original method I showed is prone it inaccuracies.

[image] JWTCA: but I’m not getting the six handles on the drawing, just one. What version of SketchUp are you using? Your profile says 2015 Free (web) which can’t be right. Are you using the Scale tool or some other tool?

Problem with drawing ellipse

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RTCool January 14, 2022, 4:08am 11

Interesting use of Sandbox Tools to get an orthographic projection.

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