I just am only showing the 'handrail' which I made a custom molding profile for the slide and altered my rise and run to get desired effect. I enjoy pushing the limits of what I can do in chief.īTW.the slide is actually a staircase. The lower half of the pool already exists and we are adding spa/slide beach entry area. Here is a recent project all done in chief (modeled in lumion). Thanks for the tips given here.that will help a ton in workflow. We observe that the radii are unequal in this case. There are exactly two such intersections, so we can construct exactly two tangent lines in this case. I have done that in chief using terrain along with roads and curbs.but it is overkill and poly lines are easier to work. The point of tangency of the circle B with the tangent through C is the intersection of circle B with the circle constructed on the diameter BC. I have done it several ways but went back to using molding poly lines after I realized even the industry standard design tools like 'Pool Studio' dont accurately model the bottom transitions. Very nice guys! I have recently starting doing pool designs working with a pool contractor I have known for a while. As Chop mentioned, the key is to use Relative To Start and Polar. It's obviously more efficient to just use Circle About Center if you prefer to enter a radius and the normal Circle tool if you'd prefer to enter a diameter but both can be done with either tool. If I person would like to enter a known Diameter using the normal Circle tool, simply enter the desired diameter If I person would like to enter a known Radius using the normal Circle tool, enter the desired radius followed by *2 (times 2) If I person would like to enter a known Diameter using the Circle About Center tool, enter the desired diameter followed by /2 (divided by 2) In microstation to draw a curve, I would simply select the Place Arc command and while choosing the tangent snap or tangent point snap I could draw a curve tangent between any two elements either with a whole number radius or with a decimal radius that started or ended at a particular point.

If I might, a few other things a person could also do that would allow them to use either of the 2 circle tools to enter either the radius or the diameter.

If you use the Circle about center tool, and hit tab as you draw you can select End Point Relative to Start and Polar and then your Distance Input is the Circle's Radius.

Tangent between circles in babacad