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Drawing Arc (w/Enginnering Info Involved)
I’ve been supplied some info from an Architect and don’t understand some of it. Is there anybody here that have an engineering / architectural background that have experience drawing arcs like this in a Vector program? I’ve drawn these before when I was given the Chord Length and the height of the Arc, but I’m not sure what to do with these. Does anyone know of any plug ins for Illustrator that would help with these?
Line 1: (8” Letters)
“THUS SHALL YOU GO”
Chord Length: 7’ – 2 3/8”
Arc Total Angle = 106.26”
Start Arc Angle (Right Side) = 36.87 Degrees
Start Arc Angle (Left Side) = 143.13 Degrees
Arc Radius = 4’ – 6”Line 2: (8” Letters)
“TO THE STARS”
Chord Length: 4’ – 11 7/8”
Arc Total Angle = 112.517”
Start Arc Angle (Right Side) = 33.745 Degrees
Start Arc Angle (Left Side) = 146.261 Degrees
Arc Radius = 3’ – 0” -
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This may help you Click Me
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quote :Bulges are something that women have (mostly to please the opposite sex it seems) and something that guys try to get by placing socks in strategic places.this is meant to help ? 😀
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You liked that bit then Chris :lol1:
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I would ask for a visual as just stating 8" letters is not acceptable, what font does he base his calculations on?
It would be quite simple for him to supply you a cad drawing of the area available for the letters, and then see if you can fit a font into it, and make it look good.
Peter
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Thanks everyone for the advise and help. They did supply some drawings that were sent as a pdf, but what is typically the case is that the drawings were done in a CAD based program. These generally are horrible for typesetting, but I’m sure they will be picky about the arc and spacing being used. These will be dimensional letters set into a floor. They specified a Garamond (but weren’t specific about which one to use). Also part of the problem is they didn’t give a scale under this plan view (noted as "Not to Scale". Hopefully this link to Flickr will work, because I can’t post a picture here.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id … 075&size=o
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i have it drawn for you simon but cant post it here, send me an email and i’ll forward it to you
Ian
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Thanks for the help Ian (also my youngest brothers name). It’s greatly appreciated. I was sure to blow a gasket at some point trying to figure this one out. Here’s my work address. I’ll put space to avoid spam bots harvesting (Hopefully). sstrom @ apcosigns .com 😀
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forgot to ask, if you don’t mind, about how you set it?
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email sent 😀
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i use easysign, when you select fit to arc it asks you for these settings, i normally never use except in cases like this. ps
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I don’t run into this to often either. Usually I decide what the arc is or someone gives me an arc width and height and I just draw a box and then size a circle until it hits the top and two bottom corners. I do wish there was something included in FreeHand or Illustrator that could do this. Thanks again.
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Thought y’all might like to see the final drawings for this. I had to use a condensed version of Garamond to get it to fit at 8" high in the allotted space. I just want to say thanks for the help everybody. If I get an actual picture after this is done, I’ll post it. They’re water jet cut bronze set in concrete on a patio floor.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21359827@N … otostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21359827@N … otostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21359827@N … otostream/
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