Lines, Circles, Polylines, Splines
The following straight and curved line elements can be created in Archicad using the different Line tools and geometry methods.
•Single straight line segments, series of Chained straight and Curved line segments, Rectangles and Rotated Rectangles.
•Circular Arcs and full Circles
•Elliptical Arcs and full Ellipses
•Straight or Curved Polylines
•Natural Splines, Bézier curves and Freehand curves
Double-clicking any of the Line type tools will open a dialog box in which you can adjust the settings of the given tool.
Available Lines are an attribute, defined for the project globally.
See Lines.
In each of these dialog boxes, the Uniform Settings for Line Tools checkbox allows you to apply the settings made in this dialog box to all line-type tools: Line, Arc/Circle, Spline, Polyline.
Favorites of any of the four Line-type tools (Line, Arc, Polyline, Spline) can be applied to any of the other Line-type elements.
Topics in this section:
Drawing a Single Straight Line Segment
Editing an Arc Using its Tangent
Drawing Elliptical Arcs and Full Ellipses