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Originally Posted by Quintin03
Has anyone had problems making increasing or decreasing width corners? I have. However due to the magic off sleep I thought of a way to get it right.
After you've made your single line drawing and offset the straights to the correct width you will have to find the point where the two lines of one side of the straight meet. Let's start on the inside.
Step 1:
Use the protractor and make two lines that are at 0 degrees with the the inside lines.
Step 2:
measure out the distance the ends of both straights are from the intersecting point then take the avaredge of the two and extend or shorten them to the correct length. Delete all lines unnecessecary
Step 3: Using the protractor you make two lines at the end of the straights at 90 degrees. They meet the centrepoint of the inside corner.
From hereon you can do it yourself. Be sure to repeat on the outside.
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I first outline the general shape of the circuit using straight lines , then ,using the "arc" function I smooth out the corners, joining at the straight line's midpoint or wherever convenient to get the decreasing/increasing radius effect. All this before I offset anything,as I like to get my blot shape complete before any offsets are done, that way I save myself the PITA of joining sections, or trying to get the correct width for a corner and many other issues.