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Draw Curved Objects | 277

The illustration on the right shows an arc drawn with the pointing device by

specifying a start point and an endpoint and a direction. Moving the cursor

up from the start point and endpoint draws the arc concave to the object, as

shown here. Moving the cursor down draws the arc convex to the object.

Draw Contiguous Arcs and Lines

Immediately after you complete an arc, you can start a line tangent to the arc

at an endpoint by starting the

LINE command and pressing ENTER at the

Specify First Point prompt. You need to specify only the line length.

Conversely, after you complete a line, you can start an arc tangent to the line

at an endpoint by starting the

ARC command and pressing ENTER at the

Specify Start Point prompt. You need to specify only the endpoint of the arc.

You can connect sequentially drawn arcs in the same way. To create

connected arcs using a menu, choose Arc from the Draw menu, and then

choose Continue. In both cases, the resulting object is tangent to the previ-

ous one. You can use the shortcut menu to repeat the Continue option.