Centering 2D Objects, Offsets

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Make a rectangle. Make another inside it, small that the first. How does one easily center the inner rectangle  to the outer rectangle? Perhaps I want to center side-to-side, top-to-bottom or both.

 

How about circles?

 

Say I want a circle offset from the corner of a rectangle? Is there a nice way to that?

 

I'm working from engineering drawings for electronic components. I draw the outer rectangle of, say, a miniature LCD display and I want to everything relative to the outer rectangle.

 

Thanks ahead of time,

 

ark

 

ArjunA_22390

Hi mbellon,

 

If you have the drawings in .dwg format, you can import them into Evolve. The imported elements will retain their features.

 

Evolve currently does not support constraints. 

However, there are alternate ways to get the result you need. This is not the best solution but the only one currently.

1. Curve offset is a tool which can be used to create concentric curve objects.
2. To create a circle offset from a corner of a rectangle- Use the segment from center tool (under line group set) to create a line segment with the corner of the rectangle as its center. With 45 degree azimuthal angle and an end point co-ordinate of 3,3,0 ( where 3 is the assumed offset distance, as an example). Using snap to points or snap to end point, you can snap the center of a circle to the end of this line segment. The circle will now be 3 units from the rectangle corner.

I am pretty sure you have tried some of these methods by the time I write this.