Solids Builder - Ellipse

Ellipse - creates an ellipse with center, normal vector, major axis vector, major and minor radius informed:

The Ellipse activity has the following properties:

• Identification
  • Name - name of the activity
    The ellipse name must follow the naming rules
  • Center - name of the point where the center of the ellipse is
  • Vector - name of the vector normal to the plane of the ellipse
  • Major Axis - name of the vector in the plane of the ellipse that indicates the direction of the major axis
  • Major Radius - a VB expression to evaluate the radius value on the major axis
  • Minor Radius - a VB expression to evaluate the radius value on the axis perpendicular to the major axis
  • Start Angle - a VB expression to evaluate the value in radians for the start angle of the ellipse to count counterclockwise from the X axis
  • Final Angle - a VB expression to evaluate the value in radians for the final angle of the ellipse to count counterclockwise from the X axis
  • Object Visible - indicates whether or not the ellipse should be drawn in the preview
    
    

If the text gets too big/small, or the sphere that represents the point gets too big or small, use the buttons ( A, a, , ) at the top of the screen to change the preview

Properties (for use in VB expressions)

Implements the properties of curves plus:

• Area - area of the circle (real number)
• MajorRadius - largest ellipse radius (real number)
• MinorRadius - smallest radius of the ellipse (real number)
• StartAngle - Start angle (real number) in radians
• EndAngle - End angle (real number) in radians
• Vector - normal ellipse vector ( vector)
• MajorAxis - vector of the major axis ( vector)
• Center - center of the circle ( point)

Methods (for use in VB expressions)

implements the methods of the curves