This manual serves as the User Guide for all TurboCAD LTE 5/ DoubleCAD 5 Products

Connect Constraint

Owned by Brian Carter (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jan 23, 2013
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Available in TurboCAD LTE Pro / DoubleCAD Pro only


Moves, rotates, and trims arcs or lines so that the two selected endpoints will be coincident, and the objects will be tangent. If two lines are selected, they are connected with no regard to tangency, equivalent to the Points Coincident constraint.

  1. Start with a line and an arc/circle. Activate the Connect constraint and select the endpoint of the line you want to connect to the arc.
  2. Select the endpoint of the arc to which the line will be connected. . . . the arc moves and the unselected line endpoint remains in place. . . .and the first arc moves to connect to the second arc.