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Drafting broken?? - Tangent connections not really connected.
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#1 Posted : Tuesday, December 2, 2014 10:32:23 AM(UTC)
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I draw a 3" circle at 0,0. And then a 2" circle at 0,-4. I connect a line between the two using a tangent snap.
Then I try to trim the inside curves to leave oblong shape.

Problem shows during trimming. Large circle trims the bottom curve out as expected but leaves a large gap on one side of the curve with the line and curve no longer connected.
Trimming the bottom circle inside curve results in a dialog box saying "Export Failed", then after angrily dismissing the silly dialog, it proceeds to say "Trimming will delete the entire object, Proceed?"

ARG!!!
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, December 2, 2014 4:40:41 PM(UTC)
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Hello

I followed your steps with the latest build and all seemed ok. Something I often do is release the snap on vertex instead of tangent which would cause a problem.

http://www.csi-concepts.com/Demo/videos/circleTangent.mp4


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#3 Posted : Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:40:30 AM(UTC)
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Hi,

I made sure I was releasing on Tangent as that's what I wanted.
I can recreate the issue very easy, but I did find that if I used "shift to select boundaries" rather than letting tool figure it out, I got the results I wanted.

Is this what you did?

Cheers!
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#4 Posted : Wednesday, December 3, 2014 12:12:48 PM(UTC)
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I double clicked the arrow tool which selects everything in the drawing. I'll try selecting just individual items next.

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