Does anyone knows what means "minor" and "major" ?
Let's call it "anything".
JL

Should it be 'x' (horizontal), 'y' (vertical) instead? Yes??

Perhaps its some Aeroplane building spiel, Major, Minor? Dunno. :confused:

Ah I get it!

Major is the greater distance over the lesser distance. It makes sense now, and actually it is less confusing (if that is what it means) than x,y.

Think of a MiniMoog synthesizer panel (if you've ever seen one?), The standard saying for feedback on a synthesizer filter (made by other companies is 'resonance', however on a Moog, it is 'Emphasis'. It's always stayed a emphasis on a Moog, because Bob Moog was the first to put a commercial synthesizer out (pretty much), way back in the late 1960's.

Tim is a pioneer too- in the CAD world. Major and Minor, I would guess, are like Moog's 'Emphasis' label. Do you reckon? Perhaps Tim set these standards, yet everyone else broke them?? (or perhaps it was one of those days and Tim couldn't remember the difference between x and y?? :eek: )

This did confuse me a little at first. I was expecting to input a center point, with major/minor axis defined from that point, whereas the input is actually 2 outer edges (3 pts) of a defining plane for the ellipse.


Regards,

I was posting in reply to the "major/minor" ellipse
But:-
The first tool (pro) is the "center/point" That is the center of the ellipse with 1(one) further point to define both major/minor rads, (which can give a popup of "Invalid ellipse geometry" if only 1 axis is input from mouse click), it is not as I mentioned. A center point ellipse I usually find as 3 points, first the center, then major then minor axis.
There is the 3 point ellipse, which is the closest to what I was first expecting for the major/minor.