Need to create a 2 point arc in order to fillet an edge. On 3rd click after tangent is set everything disappears. Can’t create the arc even if I change the amount of segments.
What’s the radius of the arc? To what are you changing the number of segments? Is Untagged active?
I bet the radius is too small for the amount of segments you are using, check what does it say at the bottom of the screen, sketchup usually tells you what’s the problem when that happens.
One trick is to scale up by 100, do your fillets, then scale back down by 0.01.
I’m having the same problem with 2-point arc tool. I want to create an arc tangent to a circle. However on the third click the arc just diappears. Also, in setting the bulge the cursor is very jumpy and hard to control.
Have you had any luck?
Arne
What version of SketchUp are you using? Please complete your forum profile. Are you still using Windows 7?
What is the radius of the arc you are trying to make? How many sides?
Share the .skp file so we can see exactly what you are working with.
bar latch.skp (214.6 KB)
I’m working along with a person who is demonstrating how to model the bar lat
ch. I want to create an arc from either side of the circumference. I start at the midpoint of the circumference, then click at the lower corner of the rectangle, then create the bulge tangent to the circle (turquise colored). However, on the third click the arc disappears.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thank you, Dave.
Arne Gronningsater
Again, what version of SketchUp are you using?
Your model is kind of balled up. Partly due to its small size and partly due its distance from the origin. After resetting the axes to their default location you can see this.
For an object as small as this latch is, I would suggest either just modeling it larger (maybe as if inches are meters) or use the the Dave Method (Box did a great tutorial for it which can be found with a simple forum search).
Due to the way you’ve modeled this and where, the circles are messed up.
The arc is disappearing because the radius is to small for the number of sides. Working at a larger scale will avoid that.
I would suggest starting over with the model at the origin. Don’t move the axes to the model. That doesn’t change the origin.
Here is your model moved to the origin and scaled up. You can see that the circles have sorted themselves out.
And here I’ve made the tube for the latch separate from the plate for the time being. It makes it easier to do the modeling. And I added some vertical edges so I could make the arcs tangent at both ends.
I was able to rescale and draw my arcs. Thanks very much. I’m curious as to why this wasn’t addressed in the tutorial. I know I was drawing at the same scale he was. Different versions of Sketchup? Different OS?
Thanks again,
Arne
I don’t know why it wasn’t addressed but then I don’t know exactly what you’ve been following. I expect the main problem was that you had your model located at a great distance from the origin relative to the size of the model.
As for SketchUp version, I doubt that’s it but we still don’t know what version you’re using. Shouldn’t be the OS but your forum profile says you are using Windows 7 asnd there hasn’t been a SketchUp version that supports Win7 for many years.