Hi Anthony,
> that helped a lot. as with burrman, i may be finding it is a
> bit off. not sure yet. is there a way to get the width of the
> ellipse.
Currently there is no way to get the full ellipse major or minor axis width from an ellipse segment.
> i'm trying to use the center snap you pointed out to recreate an ellipse.
What are you using for the orientation of the ellipse? The ellipse segments that are created by the conic command are not restricted to have their major and minor axis only aligned to the world x/y axis directions, the ellipse that it is a part of can be rotated around.
So you've got an orientation and also size in the x and y axis directions that you would need to all be specifying in order to manually draw a new ellipse on top of the existing ellipse segment.
If you are creating en ellipse that shares the same center point but has a different orientation or major/minor axis sizes then that's why they would not match.
> i guess what i'm trying to do right now is confirm the geo
> coming out of the moi conic section tool.
If it has a center point snap then it means that internally MoI has analyzed it and confirmed it to be an exact ellipse segment already...
If you need more confirmation than that, you maybe need to take it into some more specialized software that might give you more detailed mathematical data about the ellipse segment than what MoI is currently set up to show in its UI.
- Michael
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